Post a photo of the last thing you turned (!)

[bobajobob]

Still experimenting with the router. Latest results in mahogany.

 

[marcros]

they are cool, I like them a lot.

 

[bobajobob]

Thanks marcros. Been a good while since my last post. Seemed a little livelier in those days.

 

[marcros]

I would be interested to see a picture of your setup. Way beyond my skill level to turn the items, let alone the rest but interesting to see all the same.

 

[Chris152]

Beech bowls, carbonised interiors, finished with grape seed oil.

 

[Lindas]

Mhm they are very lovely

 

[Chris152]

Apple! Second turned and finished with grape seed oil.

 

[Lindas]

That is a very lovely bowl

 

[Chris152]

Damson second turned, leaving distortion at rim. It's a beautiful wood.

Two rather dull ash plates glued together and re-turned out of boredom! It's a shape I made many years ago from clay, for a-level ceramics.

 

[Chris152]

Ash.

Come on guys and gals, let's see more of what you've been turning!

 

[gog64]

Well, the reason that I'm reluctant to post on this thread is that what I'm making looks carp compared with the rest of this beautiful work! I reassure myself that I've only been turning for a month and it's bound to get better Anyway, my wife's sister needed a present at short notice so I was banished to my barn for a few hours to make something from left overs and scraps. As my SIL has gone totally cake making mad, this stand seemed like a good idea...

It may not be beautiful, but the engineers among you will instantly recognise that it's over engineered and will carry a large fruit cake without collapsing. I have no idea why my son's action man is perched on the top, it seems to have been incorporated into some game!

 

[Steliz]

Tis the season....

Acacia, Sycamore, Plum, Indian Rosewood, Yew, Mahogany.

 

[Trainee neophyte]

Well, the reason that I'm reluctant to post on this thread is that what I'm making looks carp compared with the rest of this beautiful work! I reassure myself that I've only been turning for a month and it's bound to get better Anyway, my wife's sister needed a present at short notice so I was banished to my barn for a few hours to make something from left overs and scraps. As my SIL has gone totally cake making mad, this stand seemed like a good idea...



It may not be beautiful, but the engineers among you will instantly recognise that it's over engineered and will carry a large fruit cake without collapsing. I have no idea why my son's action man is perched on the top, it seems to have been incorporated into some game!

Anything involving support for cake is a GOOD THING. Nothing wrong with over-engineering a cake stand - where I come from, Heavy Cake is a thing. It needs to be safe and secure. Image the trauma of a cake crash!

 

[gog64]

I wanted to have a go at something square with wings! Just a bit of pine from the scrap bin as I just wanted to have a go at the shape for practice. 32cm diameter.

 

[J-G]

Being inspired by the shape of HappyPixie's Burr Oak Bowl, having a few lumps of gifted Walnut and not had time to do any bowl turning recently, I got my act together and turned this :

Not as big as HappyPixie's at 130 dia and 95mm high, the 'bowl' is 35mm deep and the dropped rim 1mm thick. The base is Utile 78mm dia x 48mm high.

This will be a present for the friend who provided the Walnut - albeit some 2 years ago!

 

[mayo.mick]

Its harder and harder to find time to get into the workshop. Here's a Yew pot pourii bowl I finished last week, started it sometime in December I think and left to one side.

 

[CHJ]

Never mind the time in the making, it was worth the wait.
Like your treatment of the top with the bead, just adds that 'difference' to the piece.
Finished well.

 

[ScaredyCat]

This one came out a bit better off than the last one (first one) ...

I still have issues with not having a chuck and having to use a glue block and I suspect I may have used some unsafe practices

Oh and Ash - lovely to work with compared to yesterday!


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[CHJ]

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I still have issues with not having a chuck and having to use a glue block and I suspect I may have used some unsafe practices
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Successful outcome for an early turning.
Regards unsafe practices, the fact that you are aware of them and presumably have been suitably cautious and kept vulnerable bits of the anatomy out of the firing line until you can eliminate them is good.

 

[ScaredyCat]

Damned with faint praise. :lol:

Camera does a better job than my eyes at picking up the flaws - I didn't see the sanding marks until the photos.

I'm just using standard sanding paper - the stuff for random orbital sanders. You things improve with one of those bowl sanders? (I think prokraft have all the bits bar the wood to make one for a tenner).

Hot glue is sticking a bit too well ad clean up is an issue. To do this I stuffed the open end with paper towels and pushed it onto my glue block, then brought the tailstock up to hold it against the glue block.

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