Roni Roberts

Today Susan and I visited one of my favourite woodturners Roni Roberts in West Wales .
Roni creates wonderful woodturnings from local woods and supplies a number of Galleries in Wales .
See Roni's Website here

Keith and his Beech bowl

My student today was Keith who came here for a trial day to see if he liked woodturning.
As you can see Keith made a very respectable Beech bowl and doesn't he look pleased with himself.
Very well done Keith that is a very nice bowl

Devon open studio's

The weekend we visited my brother Chris's workshop in Ashburton on the edge of Dartmoor as he is involved in the Devon open Studio's.
Chris is a time served joiner and furniture maker who also makes very fine woodturnings and has been making bespoke joinery for nearly 50 years.
Here are a few pics of his work and workshop.

A couple of enjoyable Days

I have just had a very enjoyable couple of days with Andrew who came here for a two day introduction to Bowl turning.
Two lovely Bowls Andrew very well done.

Tony's Bowl

A couple of weeks ago when I was Demonstrating at Yandle's show I was given a very nice Oak blank by Tony Davis
The wood had a few crack and fissures in it so I have filled them with epoxy car filler.
The bowl is 10" x 2 1/2" finished with hard wax oil.
As this was a nice bit of wood I have made a very Simple bowl.
C & C Welcome

Another African Shield

Today I completed another African Shield with a Zebra pattern