Recent content by Peggy

Hi Eugene, thank you, but the trouble is all those places are an extremely long way past the middle of nowhere! I did however manage to get to Galway to buy a chuck for my candle making but it cost 100euro...sigh, just too much for me at the moment.

Thank you all for your help. The links are great, I can't get to Ikea, there isn't even a woodturning shop anywhere near by. The internet is great if you live in the middle of nowhere!

I'd like to have a go at making a candlestick. Please could someone let me know where I can buy metal candle cups, is that what they're called? I've been googling it but just getting lists of pretty candle holders for sale and so far haven't found anything that would be suitable as a metal...

Absolutely beautiful!

Hello, welcome to the forum, your work is beautiful.

Oh, that's interesting. I really should've looked into it a bit more, but I got my lathe with a grant and all the money had to be spent in the same shop and this shop only supplies Draper lathes, so I didn't have much choice. Hopefully one day I'll be able to afford to get a better one.

Hi Andy, Well, the first one I got was really difficult to use, turns out it was out of alignment and had to be sent back, and as I live in the West of Ireland and it came from UK it was a nuisance to say the least. The next one I got arrived in a ripped box and when I plugged it in it hardly...

Can I just interrupt a bit here and ask what's wrong with a Daper mini wood lathe? I ask because only this morning I was making a pen and was thinking that maybe my mini Draper lathe is just not a very good lathe at all, but having no experience of any other kind of lathe I decided I must be...

I think it's beautiful.

Its such a perfect bowl and so shiny and beautiful!

This is our wood.

Thank you Heather. My mum planted all the trees over twenty years ago, she'd be amazed if she could see it now (hopefully she can!) because it's an actual wood that you can walk through. It has ash, oak, sycamore, hawthorn, hazel, willow, sweet chestnut and beech. Yes I made the oak pens...

Beautiful Woody, and so delightfully shiny and what amazing grain. I bet the recipients of those pens were thrilled! Peggy

Hi Bill, I love the different colours, I think it's beautiful and I like the circles on the base too. Glad you are turning again after the operation on your hand. Peggy

Thank you Woody! And Thank you Tom, I'm glad I posted the picture now, I had a horrible feeling everyone was going to tell me what was wrong with them, not praise them. I feel a bit more confident now so thank you all!