I Will NEVER Do This Again.

Don’t skip through if you can help it. This one gets exciting and more than a little sketchy... It seems like everyone has been heckling me to turn driftwood for a while now, and I also had a customer request a mothers’ day gift. Their only specification was “navy blue“, so naturally I thought... “What better excuse do I have than to combine navy blue and driftwood?“ I was going for an oceanic vibe, with lighter blues to emulate surf at the top of the vase and deeper darker blues to evoke the depth of the ocean at the base of the vase. I had an idea for the final shape, but there was really no practical way to get there prior to casting this weird piece of wood. It was very decayed, and I did not want to limit my options by hacking away at it too much prior to casting. I also should have realized that there might be sap in the wood. After all, pine trees tend to seel off exposed endgrain with sap, and this was no exception even though it had spent some quality time in