Canteens at Boulder Street Gallery
An assortment of canteens – wood or ceramic, torus-shaped or round – now at Boulder Street Gallery (through March).
The ceramic torus canteens commemorate the ‘pilgrim flask’ which was a traditional pottery product. There are several also turned from wood, just to explore this form in a different medium.
Most of them here are 2-axis turned canteens with at least one medallion to cover the hole used to hollow it out. There is one medallion turned from pewter, and several others with wood medallions turned, textured, with color, gilders’ paste, or pyrography. Two of them are ‘faux’ canteens with beer-bottle openers on one side.
Wooden canteens are one of the projects that Dennis often demonstrates for other woodturners. His website has more photos and instructions – dennisliggett.com