woodturning

[geoff]

Pens are fun too! Easy on a small portable lathe.

[bill]

nice work mate

[David oakman]

Nice work ian and geoff:001_smile:

[slack ma girdle]

Get the biggest heavyest lathe that you can afford. Small lathes are good but you quickly want to turn bigger items which becomes increasingly difficult.

Most woods can be turned green, you just have slow the drying out process. Burying it in the shaving from the bowl works well. Or make the sides thin enough to flex in the drying process. However when you make the sides too thin the bowl goes bang very suddenly !!!

Happy turning

Slack ma girdle

I can spot a tree from 100 yards

[Jamie]

tomorrow i'm going to take the number of a local turning group and give them a call. i've been forgetting for about 3 years now

 

Jamie

[geoff]

Thanks, to turn the yellow bowl hollow off centre, used this split face plate which has 'workmate like ' pegs, you can throw the round off centre as you wish, bean at it on and off 5/6 years.

[geoff]

oops! forgot the pic, here it is!

[geoff]

Get the biggest heavyest lathe that you can afford. Small lathes are good but you quickly want to turn bigger items which becomes increasingly difficult.

Most woods can be turned green, you just have slow the drying out process. Burying it in the shaving from the bowl works well. Or make the sides thin enough to flex in the drying process. However when you make the sides too thin the bowl goes bang very suddenly !!!

Happy turning

Slack ma girdle

I can spot a tree from 100 yards

 

bang on! in the shavings is good, they are also nice to buff up the work when any sanding is finnished on dry turnings.

[Ian Leach]

oops! forgot the pic, here it is!

 

I've just brought something simular to that with 8 pegs it should work i think will give it ago sometime cheers.

[geoff]

mine has eight too, only showed 2 plates of 4 in the pic to give the idea,numskull me,but it was dark out there. they work well,but gently does it on the cuts or you can get a bit of 'flutter' going on.