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  1. TVS

    Bullet bowl finished

    Resin now set and the bowl is finished nice n chunky size 10” x 3”
  2. TVS

    5 inch yew box

    Fresh of the lathe this morning a 5” yew box haven’t made one of these in years finished with 2 coats sanding sealer and paste wax
  3. R

    Lignum vitae Mistrals

    Well this commission for rollerballs and fountain pens was a real test, the wood was only just thick enough to use. Very little room for error in drilling or finishing. It was only 14.5mm thick and that was the thicker pieces. Lovely to turn and finish though even after being wrapped around a...
  4. TVS

    7 inch Brown Oak burr plate

    Had a few min spare before dinner so popped out and turned this little beauty finished with sanding sealer and spray lacquer
  5. W

    finally finished

    new kits arrived so managed to get this one done...,
  6. W

    its been a day of firsts

    my first resin...slimline twist finished with ca
  7. Garno

    Wood Turning Club

    The nearest woodturning club to me opened its doors last night with a demo from Chris Parker (The Bald Woodturner). Sheffield Woodturners Home I was so much out of my depth, the bloke turns a bowl faster than I can get my job onto the lathe. He started off by turning a bowl and he then...
  8. W

    wotnot pot

    spalted beech finished with CA
  9. pittswood

    Writers pen.

    Hi Guys, Just finished a Mistral fountain pen kit with black titanium fittings and black ti accents, for an author/writer. The wood is good an old favourite, Thuyr burl wood. Finished in CA glue, 12 coats, sanded down to 600 grit and polished to finish using 12000 grit and t-cut. It’s lustre is...
  10. Bill Mooney

    More olive

    Olive pens finished in melamine & microcrystalline wax. This pen is a keeper.
  11. silver

    Ghost Gum Ares

    TM Ares with a Ghost gum wood blank, one of the blanks I have dug out that wm460 sent me a few years ago now. Ghost gum is part of the Eucalyptus family apparently. (Corymbia aparrerinja) Finished with around 10 coats of Melamine lacquer and then left overnight to harden then finished with...
  12. Bill Mooney

    A few pens

    A few slimlines dressed in xcut Oak, all pff the same piece of timber. Finished in melamine & microcrystalline wax.
  13. TonyMilner

    Zebrano, Zita

    Finished with Yorkshire Grit Microfine
  14. silver

    50 Cal Yew

    First time doing one of these kits. What a chunker it is, will I do it again. :idontknow: Yew finished with melamine lacquer.
  15. Tom.1946

    First pen

    1st pen finished with the help from mi instructor as I didn't have confidence to get right down to the bushes..
  16. L

    Majestic Skies

    A Majestic Skies kit from TM, the wood (if it is actually wood, could be a vine or something) is only what I can call "Lizard Wood" because it came from the Lizard tank that my son had. Finished with a coat of Melamine Lacquer . This is what it came like.
  17. flexi

    Buckeye burl

    Hi all, Today's offering.... A Levech in dyed buckeye burl also stabalised, turned really nicely and polished well, finished with melamine.....
  18. Dalboy

    Boxes

    I have been busy but not turning. Just finished these two jewellery boxes for someone. The first was made from reclaimed mahogany someone was throwing out and the second was a thick piece of wood from a off cut pile at a local carpenters shop. Both finished with chestnut acrylic sander sealer...
  19. Neil Lawton

    Spalted Beech

    A Spalted Beech bowl from a blank given to me by my good friend John Hodgson in Scotland. 5 3/4" x 2 1/4" finished in Chestnut Finishing oil.
  20. Neil Lawton

    Hazel again

    This is the other side of the blank that made the skinny bowl I posted recently. It was one of those pieces that actually started to warp and move as it was been turned, perfectly dry but obviously a lot of locked up forces in it that changed as wood was removed. Finished in food safe oil as I...
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