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Here is my latest green turning which I would like to share. I call them boat bowls because I can't really think of another name for them. The two are made from oak. Three views: From the top showing the inside. The bottom showing the outside and from the side showing the curvature. They...

Here is the finished butterfly/scallop bowl on its stand. There aren't two of them I'm afraid as the second one cracked on the join while it was being turned. I'm not sure about the solid fronted stand. I may cut it out so it loooks like a bridge. What do you think?

It's coming along. The two outside halves have been scalloped, not fully finished yet but they have a coat of sanding sealer. One side of the inside has been scalloped. I'm just plucking up the courage to do the other half now. The hard bit is transferring the scallop pattern from the...

Big change of plan. The butterfly bowl is now going to be a scallop shell. When I took it off the lathe it just looked too bland and then it struck me that the shape looked like a scallop shell. So I decided to cut the shell grooves in it. The picture is the work in it's early stages. I'm...

Here are some pics of the first butterfly platter in production. I used a screw chuck to hold it on the lathe to turn the bottom. I guessed the center of gravity wasn't in the waist and I guessed right. I'm going to invent a "centre of gravity ommeter". I'll make a fortune methinks. The...

I cut up a yew log that's been lying around in the garden for the last 10 years this morning. The three lumps below are the result. Not sure what I'm going to do with all of them them but one of them is going to be a butterfly shape shallow dish of some sort. I think my superglue stock is...

Somebody said I should keep the pictures coming so here are some of my small ring boxes. Please excuse the untidy work bench. The second picture shows one of them open to reveal the red velvet flocking inside. This is done using suede-tex. Much nicer (In my opinion) and easier than trying to...

This simple shallow curved bowl was turned across the axis of a piece of spalted silver birch. (Imagine a propellor on the lathe and you got the idea) It broke off, splintered and generally misbehaved whilst it was being turned but eventually it turned out to be quite beautiful. It was...

I thought you might like to see these examples of my scrollsaw and miniature carving work. They are carved after sawing in 3D format. Both the examples are about 3 inches tall.

I thought you might like to see a couple of examples of my pierced bowls. If anyone is wondering why I put penguins on one of them. It was a xmas present requested by my wife for her sister. The flower one is sycamore and unusually for me was turned dry. The penguin one is spalted beech and...

Here is a selection of my inlaid bowls. Then I'll stop posting. As a newbie to the forum I just wanted to give a flavour of the variety of things I do. The inserts are all made by hand from Polymer clay or scroll sawn laminate and then set into a mixture of car repair resin, ground rice and...

Thought you might like to see what you can get from a piece of old silver birch root. Pics show the root before I started turning and then the end result.

Just thought I'd say hello after just joining today. I've been turning on and off for around 40 years but only seriously for the last 10. Never too young to learn new things though.