Thats a lovely peice of work Bob. I think I will order me an arbour and some pads. On a side note can I ask where you source your wood from? Being in North east Scotland I unfortunetlly have no good sawmills nearby that will do much more than pine. Now and again they have in some hardwood but its pretty rare.
That Rosewood believe it or not I picked up at Axminster. My nearest branch is High Wycombe in Bucks and whilst perusing staggeringly expensive hollowing tools I noticed they had a pile of gnarled looking and somewhat ancient blanks of various exotics like zebrano, Bubinga etc. after routing about I found this tiddler of £4 whipped it and turned it the moment I got it home. You're probabably better off with specialist wood turning suppliers, this was just dumb luck!
I turn mostly English native spp to keep the cost contained. I particularly like oak
Needless to say I didn't buy any of the expensive hollowing tools!
