Hi,
I turn when I can; 30 years working on our bungalow and when I'd finally completed it then the last 3 years working in the mountain of our garden; now I've finally caught up it's much too cold to wander down to the workshop but I'm geared up for a lot of turning once I can get into the workshop in comfort. I do keep having a go and recently turned my first goblet out of an home grown holly log; I've just completed making a center steady and I want to concentrate on goblets and wassail bowls; I've had a Peter Child pyrography kit for at least two years and want to use this on turned work also I want to add router decoration; if only our dire climate would dry and warm up. I almost forgot; I was rained off one day the rain coming down like pencils so I turned my lovely wife a pair of wooden mice as a surprise present and she loves them; the mice have also been well received on forums.
We're in tier 3 Covid but have just been for a 30 mile trip in the car just the two of us not stopping to meet anyone but just to get my wife out who hasn't been in a store since before March and to charge the car battery.
Kind regards, Colin.
I had a go at chatter work a few years ago only doing this as a test piece.
I like making tools this is my chatter tool and I made a copy of it for a woodturning chum.
My first attempt at turning a goblet it being holly and finished sizes about 8" x 3".
The finished goblet. I've just bought 4" square sycamore spindle blanks and I've built up a big stock of assorted blanks.
The newly completed center steady; any excuse to use my welding kit too.
Steady tested for fit and it's solid as a rock.
Everyone who sees these mice love them; I can't take full credit though I got the idea from a YouTube video.
