turning

Hello, Wood turning is my relatively new hobby. This is how I discovered pen turning, which enables me to make useful gifts. I am still making my first steps looking for good quality kits, blanks that I like and suitable finishes. Glad to have come across this forum, which seems to pack quite a...

I don't have a chuck, and I've decided i need one. Chuck buying advise please. Spend lots, spend a little? What brands should i be looking at, does it need to be branded. I'm enjoy turning small thing at the moment. Thanks

I've got this largish limb to remove of this Silver Birch tree! Is silver birch any good for turning or do I just cut it up for firewood? I get the impression Silver Birch is prety boring/non interesting timber?

Hi, after a warm welcome here in the forum, I am now slowly taking steps towards turning my first pen. A couple of days ago I rummaged through the outhouses at my fathers place, I knew I saw some wood turning tools there a long time ago... I took these home with me: I decided to try to...

I started turning this 8" x 2.5" oak blank today and spotted this crack :sob: It goes all the way through - can it be saved? And if so, how? Thanks in advance :thumbs::thumbs:

More other stuff as I am so new to this pen turning addiction Comments welcome:thumbs: Cheers Lee

As a newbie to these forums I thought I would share some of my pre-pen projects. They are in reverse order so the first picture is the newest which I made to order for a friend. The middle one was after a. Owl turning lesson and the lady one is the first one I ever turned. Let me know what...

Despite recent setbacks life must go on, well I hope it does this time or Ali will kill me!:funny: Although I have not been able to get everything in place that I wanted as yet, the Atelier teaching space was set up for its first course. A few pieces of kit had to be mounted on temporary...

I said i would say what their event was like on another post. There was just one guy doing any turning and he was causing the card readers for purchases to keep dropping out so it did make a bit of a queue to form but nothing serious. On the up side the shop was huge, it was full of things that...

Hi all... First turning of 2017... after the run up to Christmas - where a lot of my family and friends wanted pens made for presents (very chuffed that people like my pens after only turning for a few months!) - I thought I would attempt to turn a couple of bowls. Here is the first one - a...

Hi, I have been turning wood for three years now, all I know is self taught, and, if I do say so myself, I have a knack for the basics. I first used this as a therapy for myself after a succession of mental hiccups brought on by the pressures of running a 46 bedroom country house hotel...

Thanks for accepting me into this forum. I have been turning for about 4 years now and only recently started turning pens. I've turned 2 to be exact! I found it relaxing! Although I prefer to turn bowls, platters, hollow forms etc. I hope to get a lot of information from this forum and connect...

Last week I received an email from a Lincoln University Student who is doing a degree in "Graphic Design" Ash, asked if he could interview me with regards to my pen making. His project required that he look into the deeds of "A Maker" and having looked via goggle at various makers he found my...

I have just joined this forum, I have only made 4 pens so far, but in a maddening attempt to find products to sell I make all sorts. I recently made a Panache pen with Wild African Olive Wood for a sample to send to a London shop that had showed interest in my work, unfortunately after the...

I've been given the honour of making & presenting four pens to HRH Sophie - Countess of Wessex who is taking over from the Queen as our patron of Blind Veterans UK. She is coming to Llandudno on 28th of February where I'll make the presentation. It's a proud moment in my turning career & I'm...