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This is the first Flowering Elbow video! Making it was strangely like giving a presentation to lost of people (a tad nerve-racking). It is a little tour of the wood lathe project, that is documented step-by-step style here. More vids of turning in action to come…

Here’s a bowl turning video for you. This one documents the use of the lathe to turn a nice little laburnum wood breakfast bowl for my mother-in-law. It isn’t mega fancy, but is a bowl that actually gets used for cereal on a daily basis :) It is mounted on a faceplate for turning, hope […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ok, so we have decided to put the lathe project into a new ‘Project’s section‘, rather than the bolg, which was getting confusing. Go check it out using the drop down menu above. Like the rest of the site it is all still a bit experimental at the moment, any feedback or suggestions most welcome!

The latest lathe project – made while Sam was away under high security conditions and an elaborate web of deception (it is a present for her). It is a big chunk of sycamore that I got from my parents house.  The tree has been lying in the field for the best part of year – […]