How long have you been turning?

[Bodrighy]

With the influx of new members I was wondering how long we have all been turning. In our club it is noticeable that new turners are often more inclined to experiment than the more experienced ones. I have been turning just over four years. How long for the rest of us?

Pete

 

[skeetoids]

7.5 months!

 

[Turn It In]

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

 

[Wood spoiler]

I started in July so that makes 3 months, but it seems to have consumed my waking hours!
The advice I was given was to do repetitive same stuff again and again to get it right. However, every time I " tick off" a skill I want to build on it and try the next challenge.
I am enjoying the experimentation so from that perspective your observation is correct in my case

 

[colin macdiarmid]

about four and a half years roughly

 

[xc-mtbr]

since 2pm yesterday

 

[Blister]

Since 1998

 

[monkeybiter]

I've done about three weeks worth in about three years. I wish it was a lot more.

 

[johnny.t.]

Almost exactly 2 years for me

JT

 

[Jonzjob]

Blimey, someone has got to have started before 98??

I started, after thinking that I was never going to get interested in it, in 1995! I started with a Wolf drill driven thing (can't really call it owt else). I quickly bought a Record DL24 and now have a Record CL1 which as I have put in another post, which is now electronically fully variable!! Am I chuffed!!

I must admit to being less 'artistic' than a number of others on here, but I love a new challenge. Thread turning is the latest, I think?

Edit : - Just noticed Pete.. You started this and you ain't put how long you've been hooked???

 

[tekno.mage]

I've been turning for just under 2 years and been a member of a turning club for about 18 months.

 

[Bodrighy]

Edit : - Just noticed Pete.. You started this and you ain't put how long you've been hooked???

Oh yes I did. 4 years and I also started with a drill attachment that I was given though I admit to having done it in school ** years ago. :lol:

Pete

 

[Ad de Crom]

I'm busy with my turnings for 8 years now.
Hate it turning all the time the same, so my goal is to be as much as possible diverse in my turnings.
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[CHJ]

Hands on as opposed to machine tool turning 5 yrs 5 months, (since May 09, 2005, 11 years after I retired).

First machine turned wood was 1959ish (pattern making). then a big gap between early 1960s and 2005.

 

[SVB]

About 6 yrs for me.

S

 

[dickm]

Oh heck - first started turning casually in about 1974 while recovering from hand injury, and have been doing so equally casually ever since

Though thinking back even further, I did try to rig up a miniature lathe using an old Meccano motor in about 1953...............

 

[samharber]

About 2 weeks

 

[sparkymarky]

about 8 months for me, though the last 3 months on a record cl3 , before that on a s.i.p box section steel thing - twas dredfull.

 

[Jonzjob]

Sorry Pete, a senior moment there me-thinks??

 

[Doug B]

First lathe bought for me & me bro in 1978 by our dad, Black & decker drill on a pressed steel frame arrangement & a box set of marples chisels.

Still have it all, but a small gap of 25 years followed till i bought a DVR, though the seeds had been sowed in the mind of a 12 year old.