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I think I said I wasn't sure if it did, the colour comes a day or so later though, it's quite pale fresh cut, if it does retain it then that will be a bonus, but you are absolutely right about it being wet, I never saw a timber so full of water before, it was spraying all over the place, soaked...

I am such a berk, thanks Chas, links now edited! :oops:

I made a couple of short videos about cutting logs for turning, the first also shows the little sawing rig I use to hold logs steady, nothing fancy here, just basic shapes and how I divided one large log up for bowls and blanks. I thought it might be of some interest. The timber is Alder...

I'm not entirely convinced it is Oak, it looks more like Alder to me, I have just finished roughing out some Alder bowls and it has medullary rays akin to Oak (though more like hazel) that match this, plus the orange flecks in this are very much in keeping with Alder, the fine grain, as opposed...

Does anything attract the attention of a woodturner quite like the sound of a nearby chainsaw? We just have to see if there is anything interesting that might just be available and head right on over to the siren sound. So it was that I came across a large piece of Olive Ash that was part of the...

Well done! Nothing like the first one to give you some confidence. In addition to all the previous advice I would add something which will apply a little later, that is regarding the mount. You have used an expanding Jaw inside the base, you may find later that a foot and a contracting Jaw are...

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Hi Spinks, I am from Pembs (H'west) but I am otherwise committed for Thursdays otherwise I would pop along.

Overall an interesting piece, I too, like Bob was unsure of the foot at first, but looking closely I am not even sure it is a foot, is it some sort of coaster that the bowl is standing on? It looks slightly off center and of a different material, like a marble or something. If it is a foot, then...

I see that it is an Oak bowl you have pictured there Chris, Oak is particularly difficult in this respect as the timber is very hard, that can be an advantage though, what I do in such cases is to stop the lathe and lock it (use some means of stopping it rotating) then I use a drill and sand...

I like it, lovely bit of Cherry too, such a pretty wood.

Great rescue Paul, is it as thin as it looks? If so, that's a pretty delicate HF. :)

Really nice job Paul, cracking rescue!

Be quick, you can get it here for under a tenner!

Well that's a first for me, never seen Fig Timber before, very nice. Cheers WF!

I like both form and finial (I am very partial to finials anyway) but the top of the finial, to me at least, is a little short and lacking finesse, your eye runs up the overall shape and seems to "fall off" at the top, it's almost as if it was longer but snapped and this was a rescue. I am...

Whatever it is (and I haven't a clue) it looks very nice anyway. So, seeing as there is little to no chance of us guessing, care to tell us what it is WF? :)

Ooh! Colour :) Like it.

I think it's a nice looking pen too, good colour combination, nice shape. Good work Steve.

Especially like the Amphora, I know what you mean about having to leave it too Pete, some things you know aren't quite how you'd like them to be, but there just are no more cuts available!