A day with Mark Sanger

Hi All
I visited Mark Sanger today and we had a few of hours playing at making thin walled bowls.
Here are a few pics Mark took.
The bowl in the pic is  1 1/2mm x 5" x " Ash cross grain

Axminster tools

Yesterday twelve of our local club Link here spent the day at Axminster tools link here.
I have always been a big fan of Axminster tools having bought a lot of equipment off them in the last 12 years and had service that you could only describe as superb.
Axminster will give you a guided tour of their works and a Demo by Jason Breech and Colwin Wey if you are a woodturning club and have at least 10 members attending.
Our tour started at about a quarter to ten with a one and a half hour demo from Colwin.
We were then split into two groups for our tour of their engineering works were they produce turning chucks and much more associated equipment.The other group toured there equipment handling and packing areas where dedicated workers handle about eighteen thousand different products from very small items to large machines.This was a very impressive system.
At one O clock we sat down for sandwiches cake and drinks.
This break gave us an opportunity to place orders to be picked up later in the day and I understand our little group spent over three thousand pounds but there is no pressure on you to spend anythig.
In the afternoon the two groups did another tour seeing the things the first group saw in the morning.
At about three O clock Jason did a one hour demo.
As you can see this was a very full day and I would recommend it to any club that might be looking for a good day out.
The one thing that did stand out for me was how happy all the workers were it is obviously a good place to work.
Thank you Axminster tools for a great day out.

Cherry Hollow form

Yesterday I was roughing out Wide rimmed bowls so I thought I would do something else for a change.
A couple of days ago Sue Meads our club Secretary gave me a nice log of Cherry that one of our members gave her.
This morning I managed to get two realy nice bowl blanks out of it that are now wrapped in clingfilm and a nice Hollow form blank.
This piece is  6 1/4" x 4 1/4 " turned with the pith alined.
This wood was only cut about a week ago and is soaking wet.

Teaching Dave and Cathy.

The best part of Woodturning for me is teaching and passing on the knowledge I have gained over the last 11 years.

Today I have a lovely Husband and Wife as students so I have a few pictures I would like to share with you.
These Pics are here with the kind permision of Dave and Cathy.
This was their first experiance of woodturning and hope you agree they have done realy well.

Turning of the week.

I have recently joined a new Woodturning Forum in America Link here to me this is a great honour as the work on American Woodturning Forums is to such a very high standard.

This is the piece that was chosen as Turning of the week a coloured and textured Hollow form.

New Website

Hi all.
Several years ago Mark Sanger built me a Website and has upgraded it several times.This is the latest upgrade completed about a week ago.
www.artistry-in-wood.co.uk.
My Website  ,the upgrades and the site maintainance has not cost me a penny.
Mark has been my best mate for a number of years and I think I am very very lucky.
Regards George

Hi all.
I am a member of a local Craft Centre http://www.somersetcrafts.com/ and about four times a year we have demonstration days a quite a few of the nineteen members spend the day demonstraiting.
The forecast for today was realy bad so I decided instead of demonstraiting outside under cover I woul work inside in the warm for the day.
Yesterday I finished off a Cherry Hollow form that I had roughed out aqbout a year ago.
Today I spent the day doing some Pyro texturing on it and this is the result.
This piece is 8 1/2" x 5"