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Hi Guys Anyone going to the Harrogate Wood turning show next month. I will be there on the Friday.

Hi All, Well it needed turning as it was slowly getting more bent!! It will be added to shop stock, but I did enjoy turning this one, a very evocative smell Not got many more left now, I wished he still sold them! :praying:

Thank you for accepting me in this forum, please let me introduce briefly myself, my wife and I work making characters with different kinds of wood we are happy with it but also we were thinking in start a business (woodturning) so it was also a good excuse for buying a mini lathe, we just...

Hello folks I had my first visit to the Axminster store in Cardiff last week. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Nice to meet such friendly and knowledgable staff and I have also bagged myself a two hour bowl turning lesson so I am very pleased with that indeed. I suspect I will soon...

Hi Guys. Been absent here for alittle while, sorry. Have been doing some pen turning but now ready to have ago with bowls, pots etc. Here is my problem, my set of inherited tools didn’t come with a bowl gauge. So looking for advice on what should be my first, where to buy etc. What are your...

You can blame Eamonn silver for this :funny: Whilst enquiring about turning Ebony silver posted a wonderful reply, in it he touched on moisture content. This will be no surprise to you all, on the strength of that post I went rushing out and purchased a moisture content reader. I think really...

Evening all I have been making two part slimline pens but having seen some of the things you guys are turning out I want to start making thicker pens if you know what I mean. Also, instead of turning a pen in two parts with a ring in the middle I want to have just a single piece to fashion into...

Hi All, We need more bank holiday's!! What a pleasure it's been to open the forum and click 'new posts' and get half a page of quality posts, Thank you to all who have braved the sunshine and got turning, it's been like old times, with some very interesting threads too. :thumbs::thumbs:

During my recent sabbatical I drilled out 13 blanks ready for slimline and streamline pens. I used the lathe to drill them and noticed a variation with the holes both in sizes and alignments, the differences only really became apparent when gluing in the tubes. I have ended up using gorilla glue...

This is my weekend's contribution to my pen collection. I have another 10 blanks prepared and just need turning, doing them for practise.

Another spalted walnut but so different from the last. You just never know what will appear once you start turning. What you think its going to look like is not always what you end up with!

Hi, Martin here. I've been turning for about 2 years and started doing pens about a year ago. Absolutely love turning, be it bowls/platters, vases and pens. I will no doubt have plenty of questions. There is only so much you can get off a YouTube video without actually asking a question and...

So the curse of Garno strikes yet again :vangry: Doing a "Loong Dragon Pen" Picked a nice resin blank Drilled a hole "Dead centre" Cleaned it out nicely Tested the tube fitting, absolutely spot on, like a foot in a sock. Glued said tube into the blank making sure the glue fully covered the...

Been rather ill so far this year and have done very little turning wise. Rather than just stare at the bedroom, with great effort I decided to get myself to the shed and try turning a pen. Started turning an Atrax on some coloured ply but I made a boo boo on the gluing and got nowhere. Instead...

You never quite know how these blanks will turn out, this was a stabilised blue maple burl that was very very dark before I started turning it, only for it to change massively on the finished pen. Regards Padster

This felt so good the first proper turning for 9 Months(Did not count the the clown light I made at the end of last year) spent the afternoon sorting out some metal and then turning this bowl which I called the "Pebble bowl" just because of the shape I just felt the rounded shape went well with...

It’s been a while since I posted on here. Covid for some reason stopped me doing my thing for some stupid reason. I haven’t been in my shed for over 18 months. I have taken the decision to get my backside out of gear and get up their tomorrow and have a sort out and tidy up. Hopefully I should...

Even after many years of turning it can go wrong whiled turning an 18” platter first I went to thin and hit the chucking recess but thought finish it and make a bung but while still sanding a few cracks that were in the wood to stat with decided to have a party lol more fire wood lol

Todays silly question live from Dronfield is, When turning things in wood I have noticed that I only seem to make fine dust and no ribbons whilst making whatever it is, this is not only on pens but bowls as well. If I am turning acrylic pens I do get ribbons albeit very thin and narrow ones...

Hi all, 6 off 6 hopefully the last of this commission? The blank came from our Jim before he gave up pen turning( which I think he's started again) and this forum. It was called Sassy green and was like turning inlace to start with, but sanded and polished like a beaut... The client wanted an...