Category: woodturning

  • Oak Beam to Garden sculpture

    First things first, this is not me being creative. I just copied the idea from a project in last months woodturning magazine. But I liked the project and wanted to have a go. It was also an opportunity to turn something BIG. 

  • 2 axis tool platform

    I’m sure there is a proper name for this but I can’t think what it is.So to describe it… basically it’s a platform on which I have mounted a rotary tool. By turning the big wheel at the end I can make the platform move left and right.

  • Locking box project – competition entry

    Last Monday was the first woodturning competition of the Hampshire woodturners association. 

  • wood carving a FSH!

    What do you call a fish with no eyes?…a FSH! After last months HWA meeting where we had a demonstration of wood carving, I was inspired to try my hand. I decided that a fish is a relatively simple shape, and should be easily possible with just a basic stanley knife, no need for fancy…

  • green wood wine glass

    Last weekend a friend turned up at my house with a log from a conifer tree. He had been helping another friend remove some trees from her garden and thought I’d like to have a sample to see if it was worth turning. 

  • Little vase with lid

    Some time ago I bought a block of spalted beech, mainly because it seemed fairly cheap and I was on a spending spree in a wood turning suppliers.

  • Fixing old mistakes

    I was making a little lidded box in spalted beech. All was going well enough but as I came to hollow the lid I managed a nasty catch which sent it flying and damaged the finished exterior. I gave up in frustration at having gotten so far and then irrecoverably screwed up.Or so I thought at…

  • Holy exploding woodturnings batman!

    At the HWA meeting in February Mark Baker demonstrated an interesting arched stand with finialed box.

  • Proposal ring

    It seems that if you are looking for an engagement ring that isn’t a diamond, then options are a little limited. I was apprently left with the option of picking something I wasn’t sure about, or letting on and getting Kat to help pick.So I hit upon the idea of just turning a wooden ring,…