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How about some off centre turning for next year?

I am happy with the format as is. I do welcome the feedback especially from the full time pro turners/judges. Doing a "set" of anything may be a challenge too far. A pair is one thing but 6 of a kind I would struggle with.

Thanks Chas And Bob for your thoughts. My shoulders are broad and I do not have an ego so I am more than happy to take on this type of analysis. I hope my asking for a fuller explanation has helped others too. Woodturning clubs are very thin on the ground in France so I am quite happy to use the...

I very much welcome Paul's additional comments. I work very much in isolation without a woodturning club to go to for ideas, critiques and help so all comments are welcome. I do suffer from the belief that I do not have an "artist's eye" so getting things to look "right" is always a struggle...

My entry is an ash goblet, 7.5" high, diam 2". Stem 3/8ths At least I think it is ash, here is the is the log. Roughing gouge to start, bowl gouge and scraper used to hollow out the bowl. Spindle gouge and skew used to shape the bowl stem and foot. Sanded to 420 grit and finished with sanding...

It is taking me longer to take a decent picture than to turn the vessel.

Wow. Many thanks to Graham and to Richard. Never thought I could manage to make the top 4.

Fruit Bowl in Chestnut. I am a novice turner, less than 12 months into the spinney side of things. Wood is chestnut finished with carnuba wax. Dimensions 10.5" x 1". Bowl gauge used throughout. Trying to take a decent photo of the profile of the bowl seems to have defeated me.

Seems like a sledgehammer to crack a nut to me. Providing you keep the feet of the existing machine directly above your correctly rated castors then surely all that added woodwork is not necessary unless you really do not want to raise it couple of inches. This really could not be more simple...

Hi Stef, only just caught up with this. Cracking job. Looks like you've done a good job with the varnish. I would have thought oil and wax, or dare I say it french polish, might have been a better way to go but if you have achieved a good finish with varnish then well done. I can't see and brush...

Of course Steve M would not be so stupid Outward opening workshop doors - A cautionary tale The outward opening doors on my barn The bolt that keeps the doors fixed open View from inside the barn that shows what happens if the bolt is not properly turned and held in place in the "up"...

Not misinterpreted at all Bob. I just felt that Axy need to know how many people miss the order history and wish list data. I wonder how many others have asked them for it? cheers

Hello Roger, I do hope that we have not heard the last from Tom and that the problems with "over there" can be resolved. The people that I have direct email contact with are as much in the dark at the moment as the rest of us. For the record I never had a problem "over here" other than the size...

I never had the pleasure of meeting Richard but I am a proud owner of two of his holdfasts and followed his plane making exploits from afar. The internet often gets a bad name in the press. People like Richard and many like him who frequent this and many other forums are the unheralded heros of...

I'm with Roger on this one. The info must be on a database somewhere so why not port it across to the new site. Secondly why tell us that it will be available soon and then do nothing? If they have done something then why not tell us? I've just asked them for an update on this. If the data is...

My guess is that you have probably seen this page already but just in case you missed it http://www.bilsandrye.com/store/p7/Coto ... _Wood.html

If any of your craft fairs are this far north drop me a PM and I'll come and so hello. Can't promise to buy anything as I am careful with my money :D Seem to remember that you are in the Orne somewhere? Cheers Andy

Roger if you do ever buy a place over here you can wack up a satelite dish and with a freeview box watch the beeb for free :D Still have to pay taxes a proportion of which goes to the largest of the tvs companies though :( Cheers Andy

Excellant stuff as always Stef. Nice to see that you have got rid of that god awful conifer hedge too. cheers NDY

Hi Stef, nice to see that you have not been twiddling your thumbs during the summer :D . This must mean that the inside of your house is all now complete? Are the trestles in your other thread to be used for the roof construction? It has taken me all summer to nearly complete the garden gate...