Woodturning
Turning Wood
22/04/08 21:34
I have just started doing a bit of woodturning.
Back in February I got a small lathe for about
£100 and some tools for about £60.
Its a good little lathe capable of making things up to 330mm long by 200mm in diameter, or so I'm led to believe, In reality the tool rest bar gets in the way of the wood at this size so you have to do things at a shorter length, That's not a real problem as me and my girlfriend will be making bowls, dibbers and mushrooms amongst other things.
We started off doing mushrooms, here are our first ones as well as my attempt at an egg.
Then we had ago at some dibbers...
We made a few of these and some more mushrooms so that we could get used to the tools.
A few weeks later we went to a wood merchants called John Boddy's in Boroughbridge.
We bought some bargain bits of wood and some Banksia nuts, In the picture below you can see the nut before and after I turned it.
The rings you see are holes in the nut, The nut is covered in a hard shell and under that is a red fur, It's very strange when you first see it.
I then made this little bowl out of the bargain wood, This is my first bowl.
I have made another bowl but not got a photo of that yet.
Its a good little lathe capable of making things up to 330mm long by 200mm in diameter, or so I'm led to believe, In reality the tool rest bar gets in the way of the wood at this size so you have to do things at a shorter length, That's not a real problem as me and my girlfriend will be making bowls, dibbers and mushrooms amongst other things.
We started off doing mushrooms, here are our first ones as well as my attempt at an egg.
Then we had ago at some dibbers...
We made a few of these and some more mushrooms so that we could get used to the tools.
A few weeks later we went to a wood merchants called John Boddy's in Boroughbridge.
We bought some bargain bits of wood and some Banksia nuts, In the picture below you can see the nut before and after I turned it.
The rings you see are holes in the nut, The nut is covered in a hard shell and under that is a red fur, It's very strange when you first see it.
I then made this little bowl out of the bargain wood, This is my first bowl.
I have made another bowl but not got a photo of that yet.
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