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Hi Chris, Just come in from my un-heated workshop! Need i say more. Very best wishes with your treatment, keep your chin up and keep turning. Best regards, Ian

Hi Allen, What a serious piece of kit! It always seems that as you move forward there are always those little niggles to slow your progress to full enjoyment. As you require spacers to obtain a suitable fit for the chucks can I offer my services to turn these up for you as cost effectively as i...

Hi Johnny, Certainly comming on and don't we always seem to have projects like this when its wet and cold!! Keep up the good work and the picies comming! Regards, Ian

Hi Johnny. I read between the lines in FB and gathered from a comment by Nick you must have been. It was money well spent and a very interesting eye opener to some of my techniques, beliefs and practices and i feel i have come back and stamped my foot if I find myself straying. Hopefully the...

Hi Callum, Pleased you like the result they were both very satisfying to complete. Regards, Ian

Hi Johnny, The bowl has a ring that the feet go into and the bowl base was going to have a downward facing squat sort of finial to cover the chucking piece also in ebony as the legs so a sort of space ship style if i was going to decorate the rim. BUT common sense prevailed when i saw the...

Hi All, I have been busy turning and not very active around the forum but from a thread of Johnny T he asked when I was going to produce something with the elm he kindly swapped for a piece of walnut when we met in the summer. So at last I have cut it up and turned this vase out of one piece so...

Hi Steve, Couple of us are going to be there tomorrow so look out for the UK Forum badge be good to meet you Steve. Regards, Ian

Hi George, Congratulations and best wishes on your new professional status. Regards, Ian

Congratulations Richard on all three, great news for it all to happen at the same time. Very best wishes to you, your wife and the little one!! Regards, Ian

Hi RO, As has already been said I wish my first pieces had been as good but practice makes perfect ( as well as some artistic firewood on the way). Keep up the good work and remember if your grindstone is 80 grit that is the coarseness of your cutting edge and therefore using coarse abrasive...

Hi Johnny, The engineering work has kept me away from the wood lathe to some extent but I have a couple of craft fairs coming up and I have been busy building some stock up. I hope to make a couple of vases with your much appreciated piece of elm. I am just on with a piece for the club...

Hi Johnny, Good to see you are back in turning mode and making another excellent piece from your workshop. I really like the finial and lid as they blend nicely with the body. Well made, Regards, Ian

Hi Turnr77, I have a Viceroy bowl turner and I think they are very well made and definitely good value for money. I paid just under £200 for mine and then had to convert it with an inverter to run the 3 phase motor on single phase which makes the lathe very effective. But as the speed range is...

Hi Pete, I was just reckoning this up and it's now 4.5 years. How time flys! Ian

Hi George, Excellent selection of boxes and my favorites are the lignum and the olive wood but still like the others in second place. Regards, Ian

Hi Pete, I have just been checking out Sue's latest pyro work and she is very skillful I really do like the decoration on the bud vase. Well done Sue!! Regards, Ian

Hi Johnny, Well done to Tim you look to be a natural in the making so watch out Johnny another two years and you might have some more competition now you have sown the seed!! Great first bowl! Regards, Ian

Hi Pete, Good looking snowmen etc does your good lady do the business with the pyro now as well as the scarves? Good start for the Xmas season. Ian

Hi Johnny, This is a new variation on a theme of decorated pieces Johnny and i do like the old corroded iron look on the finial. You could almost be fooled into believing it was a finial dragged out of the sea. All in all a really good piece and I like it very much. Well done!! Ian