I never do Commissions

One rule I have is to never accept Commissions but an old friend asked me to make a Base for a crystal lamp that his Daughter had bought for her Mothers 75Th Birthday.

How could I refuse so I made a quite simple base out od a nice piece of Beech.

I wanted the base to be quite plain so as not to take anything away from the lamp

10" x 2 1/2" approx

 

Roughing out yesterday

I had a load of Oak Walnut and various woods that needed roughing out so I had a hard day yesterday and roughed out this lot 30 in total.

A bit of cleaning up to do luckily my Brother Chris came around because he was Demonstrating in our Club and he helped me clean up

 

Angus

Today my Student Angus was here as an 18Th Birthday present from his parents.

Angus will be finishing a College course in a few weeks time he has done Countryside Management and Conservation course.He already had a very good understanding of wood so a days Woodturning will help him with his future plans.

Angus did very well and was easy company and it is a change to have a young person to teach.

Well done Angus I hope your Mum is pleased with her Bowl you did well .

 

Gwyn and Maria

Working on a Bank holiday is not so bad when your students for the day are like Gwyn and Maria.

A great couple lots of fun and plenty of skill. It is Maria's birthday and a days woodturning is a present to themselves.

Today has been very easy as both where a pleasure to be with.

Two beautiful Beech bowls the result of a very nice day.

 

 

Jan's Birthday Treat

Jan's Birthday next Saturday and for a treat she has come to me for a days Woodturning tuition. Jan has also bought a lathe and inherited a set of Turning tools.

The day was very easy for me because Jan is a very quick learner and I only had to show her something once and she mastered it immediately.

Jan turned a very nice Beech Bowl with quite a wide rim that she coloured with her favourite colour Blue.

There is actually three colours with the top colour being blue.

The following pics were taken through out the day.

 

Nice Beech blank to start with

 Making a start shaping the bottom

 The sign of a good turner long shavings under the lathe

 Scraping prior to sanding

 Sanded and ready to reverse chuck

 Starting to remove the bowl centre

 Painted with Black base colour

 Jan applying colour

 Back on the lathe and applying some heat to help drying

 Final removal of bowl centre

 And the finished bowl what a beauty