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teak will cause you to despair, it has the worst blunting effect on edge tools of any timber I have ever turned, I made a small 6" x 3" bowl from it once and had to resharpen an HSS bowl gouge about ten times during the cut, as a comparison, I would not expect to resharpen the same tool more...

Sounds violent, I better get a hard hat.

Really as with most new things, the best way of finding what works and what doesn't is to try it out, that's what I'll be doing with this as I go. If I find anything striking I'll post it up.

It may work well on bare wood, not tried that as yet, but I too had reservations about doing that as well Chas, as you know, I generally apply a shellac finish to bare wood, I could see the various oils interfering with that. What I do like about it for cutting back is the property is has of...

I bought a tin of this on the basis of this thread (first time I have come across it), I thought it sounded useful for cutting back lacquer finishes. So, it has arrived and I had a piece ready which had a spray lacquer finish. At this stage I would normally use a burnishing cream which works...

Very nice!

Yes me too Bob. When it comes to re-centering such a small item, that's pretty tricky. One thing I always try and do is to make a small pencil mark on the base of a piece that corresponds to a mark or feature on the chuck, that way I know I am putting the piece back in the same position...

Without seeing them I cannot say, but all the sleepers I have seen so far in more than 50 years, have been made from softwood, so they can absorb the tar/creosote or whatever they protect them with I presume, Oak would be much less able to absorb stuff I would think. But that doesn't mean...

Not quite sure what point you feel you are making there bobajobob, it seems though to be berating me somewhat for my comment, and as such i think you have misunderstood it's intent, I was not complaining in any way, I am also very well aware that this is not a shop window, I have my shop window...

I'm of a like mind to Chas on this, sure some things can become "commonplace" but it depends on the form and the application, just how inventive is the piece. On top of that, although I enjoy the comments here and the critique too, I don't primarily make this stuff for turners to look at, I make...

The pot is an oddity Chas, I had just got the paints and wanted to see how they "worked" so I grabbed an off-cut and turned a shape, this was the lid, it looked good enough to keep so then I had to design a pot around it! :D hence the rather unusual shape/dimension etc, it was in effect made in...

I made the little pot as a sort of "proof of concept" using the Jo Sonja range of acrylic paints, these are the irridescent ones, I was inspired to try these by Dalboy who used them to such exceptional effect on a recent bowl, I think it worked OK, so thanks loads Derek!! :) The pot is about...

Thanks Derek, I did enjoy it!

I had the pleasure of conducting a demo on colouring and finishing at the south wales woodturning club last week, it was well attended and I got asked many questions (which I think is a good thing). Nice bunch altogether, and they have put a very positive write up on their new website, pop over...

Thanks Bobajob, I think your work here is very good, the inside of this little box looks very nicely turned and finished. Excellent work.

Haha ROB :D, I hadn't really thought of it that way, but I guess it was a bit of a challenging question. Actually the inside that Bobajob has shown looks very good in the photo, a good interior raises the standard considerably.

I use a large disc of ply wood that has a recess for mounting on expanding jaws, place some paper against the ply and the bowl against that and bring the tailstock up to support it, it is important when you make the initial base of the bowl to mark the centre somehow, I use a fine gouge and cut...

I like all of them, what are the insides like?

Wow, what a high standard overall, some very nice pieces altogether, well done Derek for a well deserved win too.

I liked this one so much I bought a set of those paints Derek, really classy look and a great design idea, I am inspired too!