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Archive for October, 2009

Oversize turning (part2)

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Just getting a chance to upload the final photos of the big bowl, which was given over as a present for the wedding we went to this weekend.  Hopefully they will be pleased…  Here it is after a fine sanding and a light oiling. The home mixed oil is bringing out the fantastic swirly depths of the grain.

Oversize turning

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

This is the latest turning project – a fairly large lump of sycamore I roughly chainsawed from a fallen tree at my parents house in the Welsh hills.  It has actually been hanging about in a plastic bag for a few months (while I finished my PhD) waiting to be used.  My original plan had been to […]

Making a Lathe from other peoples rubbish Instructable

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

So I published the instructable of the lathe project the other day. It already has had a whole load (like 10,000) views! Which I find quite amazing… People have made a range of comments (check them out on instructables link) but most are very positive. A load of other blog sites like hackaday have noticed […]