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Yesterday's play resulted in this. 5 inch across, wax finish.

So I did a real nice natural edge ash bowl this afternoon. All going well despite a load of cracks in one side of the bowl. Fairly even thickness , about 6-8mm, and then the damn tool rest decided to slip and catch the edge on one side.Large lump of natural edge now out of place! So I...

Results of a few recent afternoons in the shed of escapism.

Having recently acquired a spinning wheel made by my father-in-law I thought I would share some pictures of it. He made it some years ago on his trusty ML8 (which he passed on to me when his hands got too shaky). A real exercise in copy turning! Not sure I would have the patience. He also made...

Candle stick turned off centre at either end. Funny bit of wood - hard as hell, mostly dust rather than clean shavings, but smelt like pine!

Natural edged "vessel" for want of a better word, from semi wet / semi dry (take your pick) log of silver birch. No finish on it. Wish I had left it (or just waxed it) as I put Danish oil on it , which darkened it more than I would have liked, but hey ho!

Natural edged "vessel" for want of a better word, from semi wet / semi dry (take your pick) log of silver birch. No finish on it. Wish I had left it (or just waxed it) as I put Danish oil on it , which darkened it more than I would have liked, but hey ho! /Users/timsparrow/Desktop/2014-01-05...

More chance to play even though the rain has finally eased. This one is in laburnum. Danish oil finish. About 5" diameter.

Not posted any samples of work up before, and had time for a play today - no point going outside anywhere, rain, rain and more rain. Anyway, first go at a bowl with wings - from a square block of yew. 8 inch by 3.5 inch Didn't quite get it right, particularly under the wings as I ran out of...

HI I have a myford ML8 with a Brooks Crompton switchgear, which keeps shorting out when the motor gets hot. Anyone with the same problem that knows how to solve it? New switchgear or new motor ..... or new lathe?! Thanks Tim