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Turned from a piece of merbau square beam of 10 cm. The base is 9 cm and height 32.5 cm. Finished with 3 coats water based acrylic paint. Greetings, Ad

First a table lamp for the renovated house of my daughter Karin. Yellow pine (nice smelling) halfround segmented lamp shade 2mm thick. Foot and stem made out of a 20mm thick rubberwood table top, so for the biggest part also segmented. The light source, an electricity saving lamp of 15 watt...

First, a segmented shallow bowl, made out of a massive wooden table which I got. The wood of this table is till now unknown, could be, white oak (personaly I think it is), but for the same money rubberwood. DxH dimensions 310x100mm Finished with blanc transparent decorative acrylic lacquer...

Has lying around in my wood store loads of square beech beams of 50mm, which I got, always the question what to do with this stuff. After thinking, I decided to made this platter out of this beams. Hope you like it.....?? Ad

Got from my son-in-law a bunch of 50mm beech beams, and from my friendly wood supplier nice pieces of merbau. This is what I did with this stuff. DxH 142x275mm Finished with decorative acryl lacquer. Cheers, Ad

After spending my time for building a staircase, and just finishing a kitchen renovation project at my home, I'm happy to be able working again in my workshop. Had found in my wood store a nice rectangular left over piece of maple, just good enough for a oval bowl. So I installed the oval...

Have lately not so much in my workshop engaged in wood turning, too preoccupied with other things, as is the complete renovation of the kitchen. But I have not seen all day in the kitchen, am I still found the time to tool-making and have made me a chattertool and received satisfactory results...

It's sunday morning, and we were surprised with a thick layer of snow. So time for snow shuffling, and building with the neighborhood kids a huge snowpop. Also a good time for drinking gluhwine outside with the neighbors, and making fun with throwing snowballs. Have to admit; playing in the...

Started up my turnings again after 6 weeks working on the staircase project. First an oak lidded box, made out of a piece of an old oak mantelpiece, hardened by the heat of the fireplace.... And my first try on making an inside-out turning, which was a fun small project. This inside-out turning...

Did the stairs this afternoon temporarily put together to see if everything fits snugly. Should there here and there fiddling through a slot deeper to carve, but basically fits everything. Here some pictures. Go next week to removable guardrail work, and other banisters. So the work goes by...

Made an oval segmented beech lidded box as the first try on the improved oval turning device. I'm almost satisfied with the first result, cutting speed of 500rpm is okay. Still have to give the needed attention on some parts of the device, but I'm on the right track. The metal spindle works much...

Built in 2009 an oval turning device and turned since that time several objects, but had a slack in the constructed from wood and metal spindle. Tried to make some reinforcements by placing steel rings for the roller bearings, this was a bit of an improvement, but not fully satisfying. My wish...

For now this is my last piece of turning work. A segmented beech lidded bowl DxH 240x100mm. Start tomorrow with the staircase project, so goodbye to my lathe for a while, or maybe longer. Cheers, and thanks for looking.

I'm going to built a staircase for the renovated house of my dear daughter. A time consuming project, long time ago (30 years) that I did flat woodworking. My wood turnings will be turn down till a lower level, so I have to devide my time between this staircase project, and my wood turnings...

These two wall lamps are for the renovated house of my daughter Karin. She lives together with her boyfriend in an old small farmhouse with a thatched roof in the Betuwe (the fruit area of Holland) This thatched roof was in a very bad condition, and we pulled down the thatched roof last may of...

Made this segmented beech bonbonniere for Lucie, the best girlfriend of my daughter Karin, and also one of our best friends for a very long time. Lucie bought recently a house in town, and wanted to surprise her with one of my turnings, in the form of this segmented bonbonniere, with the meaning...

Finished today a segmented oak bowl. Diameter 310mm, still in his natural color. This bowl is made for the parents of my son-in-law. The segmented bowl is made from an oak table which had belongs to a recently passed away mother of my son-in-law's mother. So as a memory of her mother. Cheers, Ad...

Was the last two weeks on holiday in the Black Forest in Germany, and we made on june 21 a day out trip to Basel Switserland. Saw on the Munsterplatz these Morris dancing group, had a very nice talk with some people of these dancing group. Took pictures, and got a brochure from one of them with...

This is a segmented oak platter made for the wedding of the daughter from my sister-in-law. Had to work hard to get it done, tomorrow is the wedding, so just in time. This platter has a diameter of 305mm, almost the maximum diameter I can handle on my lathe. As usual finished with blanc...

Was a long time ago that I turned a goblet. Had for this goblet a nice piece of maple. The max. diameter of the chalice is 85mm, and in total tall 190mm. Finished as usual with transparent acrylic stain decoration Cheers, Ad