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I've turned stuff even most woodturners would burn 😁😁😁😁

Sooooooo I need to admit a mistake that has come to light after yesterday's winds, this burr actually came from a Holly tree not a Silver Birch 😳 I only discovered this today as yesterdays winds have blown the trunk over that it came from along with the birch trunk that I thought it had come...

@Britman as others have said, any wood is fine, however, I would recommend avoiding soft woods like pine as it can be frustrating to get good clean cuts without tearout, green wood is good to learn with as it cuts easily allowing you to concentration on tool presentation. For learning Free wood...

It's only sour if you taste it 😋

Spent this morning felling a Silver Birch and all afternoon processing it, at barely a foot thick I decided I wanted the little growths more than bowl blanks for a project that I'm working on so I now have a pile of small blocks and a few small bowl blanks, only got half of it cut up so far. The...

Manners in London? Welcome to the asylum 🤪

Was considering giving the dish as a little extra but I stupidly under quoted for this so it will be added to my stock at the shop or kept for a craft fair I may be attending in May at Merrist Wood

A parent asked if I can make a large pot that could hold 3 orchids in their plastic pots, unfortunately 3x 4inch circles require a 10.5inch circle to fit into and my lathe maxes out at 9.5 before steel touches wood, they said that will be OK, they will repot the 3 orchids directly into the pot...

@Phil Pascoe Now that bushwacker has posted his pics I think we're only waiting for a couple more? Plus @Lefley pics 😀

That's the plan once I find the right piece of wood for him 😁

It is a good day out for ALL the family 😁😁, however you also have e to be aware that some guys dress up as female anime characters and what's seen can't be unseen. I've been going for over 10 years now, usually only in May and October but this last one is new and promised to not oversell...

Welcome to the asylum 🤪

My new little friend that inspired the egg, fully articulated.

So, over the weekend I went to comicon in London ( I go 2 or 3 times a year) and one of the stalls was selling 3D printed dragons of different sizes so I bought myself a little one and inspired by him today I put the birch burr I collected a couple of weeks ago on the lathe and turned a Birch...

Welcome to the dark side 🤪🤪🤪🤪

A little pedestal bowl from an offcut of silver birch, it was a little awkward as the grain was at about 45degrees instead of end or side grain but as a quick piece it came out OK, sanded to 320 and then abrasive paste as the final finish.

@pat from Marck glad to be of service 😁😅😅😅 its the simplest things that make us happy and there's nothing worse than bits of wood and dust floating in the drink 😁

One more cord pull today and I got bored so used one of the blanks to make a bud vase which I think is gorgeous

After turning the 3 parana pine/mahogany pulls I picked up a parana pine/pallet hardwood blank, not a clue what the pallet wood is but it's gorgeous and again the glue joints are really good. Once these were done I had enough left from 2 of the blanks to turn a couple of discs that will be...

A productive day today so I'll have to split it over 2 posts 😁. First I needed to stop dust and Woodchips getting into my drink so I turned a cap for my cans of drink from an offcut of cherry Next I turned 3 more cord pulls from parana pine/mahogany laminations, super happy with how clean the...