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Poky things

During my first year of wood turning, nobody could have tempted me with turning finials. I would have run a mile and then some. The prospect was daunting in the extreme, and seemed to forever be reserved to proper professional … Continue reading

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Spinning away…

At the last meeting of the West Midlands Wood Turners, the club secretary told me he’d been contacted by a silver smith who was in need of some turned items, and whether I’d be willing to give it a shot. … Continue reading

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Hitting the limits

As my esteemed readers will know, I don’t own a wood turning lathe. My lathe is a proper small engineering lathe for a metal workshop. It does what I am asking it to do, but it has its limitations, and … Continue reading

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Dang!

I haven’t posted much for the last month, mostly because I was very busy making things. Mostly boxes, in preparation for another round of the chairman’s challenge at the West Midlands Woodturners. The theme for this month was “a lidded … Continue reading

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Wax polish

A while ago, I bought some micro-crystalline wax from Chestnut. It works well, and gives a very nice smooth finish, but it doesn’t go hard, and surfaces are easily scratched, and then it can be a bit of a mission … Continue reading

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