The Ernie Newman Gallery
Here is Ernie. He is a great demonstrator. He has skill and has fun too. You should see him turn an egg cup in say 14 seconds or a spinning tops in the time it takes for one of his home made chooks to wiggle down a wire.
He has an historical approach to his work as well as his own contemporary designs. He lives just below the Blue Mountains to the West of Sydney. I think I am right when I say he teaches at a technical school (TAFE), but I stand to be corrected.
I have just looked down into the drawer behind my keyboard and I have one of his tops in there. I should really have more, but any rate here are some pictures of his tops.
The pictures are thumbnails. Click on them to enlarge. Sorry about the moiré on some of them. I must learn to scan better.
Here is a nice selection. You can see that he uses a lot of different techniques. On the far right he has chatter tooled it (he made his own chatter tool, that saved him $60 or there about!
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This is his chatter tool. (Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
Next to it looks as though he has made a hollow vessel top with a lid. Behind it are two hollow vessel tops. (I have one of them!) The second from the left you will see his use of paint. I have just discovered the pleasure of this myself.
(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
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(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
This is a Roman ogee curve top. It differs from the Greek curve. He can talk about this for ages ands I forgot most of what he told me! Sorry.
Here are the two types of curve together. I think the right is the Roman and the left is the Greek. Sorry about the quality of the picture.
Above are pictures of my Ernie Newman hollow form top.
I am awaiting permission from the Australian Woodworker to show those picture with a "Courtesy" label. They come from Ernie Newman's articles in two consecutive issues of the Journal:
Japanese Tops and the second was Australian Tops. AUSTRALIAN WOODWORKER ISSUES 88 DEC 99 AND 89 FEB 2000. IT IS A GREAT MAGAZINE AND TOPS FEATURE FROM TIME TO TIME.
Ernie has given me permission to publish these pictures, but we want it confirmed by the journal editor.
The editor has said NO, so I am removing them. A shame I think!
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(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
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(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
Ah! This one he made to my design. In fact I got an honourable mention in his article. He mentioned this top and my aluminium tops.
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(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
You see these three tops! Well look how they spin.... on top of each other.
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(Courtesy Australian Woodworker)
I hope you have enjoyed your look at Ernie Newman's tops.
