Hey guys and gals

Just wondered if any of you folk were interesting in woodturning/woodcraft etc..

few of my projects and experiments here!

Id been after a woodturning lathe for a while, for christmas i got a basic one just for me to get the feel of things and learn the basics, (after a brief arguement with Clarke!

Here are a few things ive made over the past few months, I didnt actually get to use the lathe untill end of march due to dissertation and uni work :thumbdown:

But here we go!


Ive made nearly all the mushrooms you can see here, just a bit of fun really gets me familier with the basics!









And one of a few tealight holders i made today just to see if i could

thought id share with you all, tips, hints etc welcome

Few more on facegeek
Facefail link

Ben

Those look ace mate

I attempt to generate metal swarf rather than woodshaving

I used to do that aswell,

Ive a peatol micro lathe in the garage that we (me and dad) used to use to make steam trucks/engines etc
steam truck

the steam truck half way down

Ben

Few things ive made for my sisters and friends birthday:






pretty good if i do say so myself! im impressed with how th ey turned out!

If anyon ewants anything feel free to pm me and ill see what i can do! pretty limited with what ive got at the moment, but all good for little presants and ornaments!

Ben

Some of thats really good,

i tell you what, you turn out a .50 barret round in wood and I might just smile

I shall see what i can do!!

you can tell the progress of my skillz if you look at a the pictures of mushrooms all together, ive just run out of wood at the moment (thats what she said anyways ) should be getting some ash and oak in for the log burner next week!

Ben

pyro wrote:I shall see what i can do!!

you can tell the progress of my skillz if you look at a the pictures of mushrooms all together, ive just run out of wood at the moment (thats what she said anyways ) should be getting some ash and oak in for the log burner next week!

Ben

Hmm, this is interesting, here nobody could afford to burn such exotic wood (it is amazing how relatively short distance, there is quite change in wood commonly used), we burn Birch and Pine (Scots Pine mostly as it is quite common), also those are most common for woodturning too. I did some when I was younger and still at school where there was equipments for it.

Here is an idea, how about making 300 series original alloys, full collection from wood and glue it to some background, then framing it? Not easiest thing and requires lot of dremeling or something like that too, but basic shape could be something interesting to work with as there are lot of angles and shapes. Would make nice art for garage wall, I think.

kaos wrote:Some of thats really good,

i tell you what, you turn out a .50 barret round in wood and I might just smile

+1.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Get some bespoke wooden gear shifters turned Ben, bet you theyd feel awesome.

Cherry wood shifter knobs with multiple layers of clear coat would sell quite well, I think, you might be able to convince missus from your hobby when it buys nice dinner to both of you

Now there as an idea.

and you said wood and knob in the same sentence

Ben

pyro wrote:Now there as an idea.

and you said wood and knob in the same sentence

Ben

OMG I cant believe I missed that.
Good spot man.

jtbo wrote:Cherry wood shifter knobs with multiple layers of clear coat would sell quite well, I think, you might be able to convince missus from your hobby when it buys nice dinner to both of you

there are a few things in that sentence that make me laugh,
1) knobs
2) cherry
3) the missus (i think im a lost cause!)

Ben

Youve got to call them dude. Its your duty.

Pffffffp. Doody.

volvosneverdie wrote:Youve got to call them dude. Its your duty.

Pffffffp. Doody.

Tried it dude, even tried jumping out from behind a bush and shouting surprise! that didnt work. My face hurt after ward.

Ben

You are confusing and (slightly) scaring foreign persons

Had to google, a bit, for that other knob you can find big market from China, they are crazy for stuff like that, I bet missus would find such ornament rather nice too

One co-worker of mine bought one wooden knob of that nature too, I got bit worried about him after that, however rather soon after that he got married with a nice girl that likes scifi stuff, so I don't know, maybe chinese persons know something we don't
Oh, that co-worker had quite bad perverted imagination, but that's nothing, his missus has even worse, I can't say that I would have clean imagination, it is indeed rather dirty, but those two, just on their own class