Category Archives: General
Update
OK folks, haven’t posted for a while, mostly because I have been busy, busy, busy. There were pieces to make for various club competitions (and I am pleased to say I walked away with a number of wins, more about … Continue reading
Another winner!
With another month gone, there was another chairman’s challenge at the West Midlands Wood Turners. This time around the subject was “a bowl, cut and reconstructed”. I knew exactly what I was going to do, but I almost missed out … Continue reading
Spinning away…
At the last meeting of the West Midlands Wood Turners, the club secretary told me he’d been contacted by a silver smith who was in need of some turned items, and whether I’d be willing to give it a shot. … Continue reading
Dang!
I haven’t posted much for the last month, mostly because I was very busy making things. Mostly boxes, in preparation for another round of the chairman’s challenge at the West Midlands Woodturners. The theme for this month was “a lidded … Continue reading
The wash basin
The other day I got some odd pieces from my tree surgeon. A few of them were hard maple, with quite a bit of curling and quilting going on. They were all dry as bones, as he had them in … Continue reading