Go Beyond the Lathe for Beautiful Vessels
Synopsis: See how Liam Flynn creates his beautiful vessels, both on and off the lathe.
The beautiful overall shapes Liam Flynn creates on his lathe immediately draw the eye. Yet much of what makes his vessels so memorable happens afterward. The signature double lip found on many of his pieces is made on the lathe but modified at the workbench. And all the fluting is done with the vessel off the lathe. A lathe by nature generates perfectly symmetrical forms, but Flynn has found a way to produce turned vessels that are equal parts symmetry and asymmetry, perfection and imperfection. He may be aiming to find “the perfect line,” but while he’s pursuing it he lets the irregularities of work done by hand and by eye become part of the composition. Flynn turns and carves his pieces while thewood is still green—he chainsaws the blanks from sawlogs—so there is always…
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