Thom Noonan

Eight years later, here's the shop finally: 

ThomTheWoodTurner - Etsy UK

WWW.ETSY.COM

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Shop Pole Lathe turned products by ThomTheWoodTurner located in Cockermouth, England.

And a rough video showing the process : 

43 minutes ago, Pete Mctree said:

Looking good Thom - glad you are still making them 👍

Cheers mate, you well? Got my climbing tickets sorted in December... send me an inbox?

3 hours ago, AJStrees said:

Great work. He's been busy carving by the looks! 👍

Cheers pal 

6 hours ago, nepia said:

Loving those bowls Thom!   The ones near the bottom of the pics with the green blobs and streaks - sycamore or holly?

Good to see someone using elder instead of rubbishing it but as a turning wood - well, won't it pull itself to pieces as it dries further?  It's a very wet wood when green

Tar mate, Holly, good eye. Found the Elder super easy to turn and generally nice to work with. It warps like crazy once its dried out though. Can't see it in the photos but the biggest bowl has quite a few holes and cracks in it. Smaller ones turned out okay.

Spalted Birch

Not sure on species for this one. Rescued from the chipper 

Spalted Beech

Cherry

Silver Birch

More spalted Beech

Ash

Elder

Spalted Beech

Spalted beech from a dead tree. Blunted my tools every 5 minutes. Get a clean finish though. Nested it too.

Nested rowan bowl

Do you use the same tools as turning with a powered lathe or is it a completely different tool kit as well as skill set?
 
Ive tried turning on a powered lathe but only managed a few funky shaped bits of firewood [emoji23]

Also managed to turn my first couple of nests of apple, turned from the same piece of timber. The little bowl sat in the centre of the large one. Bit of a ball ache to do.

Turned from some skanky apple logs that would usually be a big nono for turning on a foot powered lathe. With the timber being infested with knots and rotten in the centre, runs a high risk of breaking on the lathe. Many did, these ones survived. 

Some Chery

Opportunity to due lots of turning again due to this lockdown. Experimenting with painting some.

They're really nice mate.

Nice one, appreciate it

some more pics

I'm done slacking. Here is some turned over the weekend, the wood used was crab apple i believe, came out pretty nice

Oiling loads of these Ash bowls.