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Jacques portal, amateur wood turner, has just finished these two crescents. In its largest dimension it is 32 cm The pine crescents are turned, then brushed our with a metallic brush mounted on the lathe to tear off the smoothest part of the wood, then burnt, then finished with tung oil. The...

The French association of wood turners organizes a wood turning traveling show on a yearly basis. Members are asked to submit up to three pieces to a jury which select those who will be shown around. Quite interestingly such pieces can be turn by professionals or amateurs. FRED, a member of the...

Emilio Benericetti, is a fantastic cook who offered a giant omelette for 12 persons. He cut this ostrich egg with the Dremel tool. After cleaning it he tuned two rings which fit one in another as the liaison between the box and the lid. The wood is walnut, the finish a mix of beeswax and carnauba

Emilio Benericetti, is a fantastic cook who offered a giant omelette for 12 persons. He cut this ostrich egg with the Dremel tool. After cleaning it he tuned two rings which fit one in another as the liaison between the box and the lid. The wood is walnut, the finish a mix of beeswax and carnauba

Nothing special in the turning technique. Pierre Deletraz is using the same technique as we probably all do, i.e. a lamp bulb introduced in a vase we want to have particularly thin in order to produce a lamp shade. In the picture he is finishing the exterior thus ensuring than thickness is no...

This box from Dominique Flamme, I urge you ti visit the web site of this artist: http://www.dominiqueflamme.com/index.html after turning it has been worked out with Arbortech. Fantastic instrument for carving, but one has to get used to it as it eats the wood like an entire army left without...

In order to go beyond traditional boxes I turned this sycamore box with the Ecoulen chuck. The difficulty lie in the fact that no abrasive can be used as the wood turns in very strange position making the sanding quite hazardous. I must say I didn’t use any finish either as this is still an...

I need your opinion on that synthetic acrylic material created for pen turnings. As many ask for new aspects I have had made several samples and that is the first of series of trials and if you like it I will probably ask you for the others. Your opinion will be very suefull for me, and I thank...

In Nantes, France, at Jean Pierre Bonnin's, they do learn how to turn big!

I have seen this piece turned and carved by Richard Morris in cocobolo. As you can see the turning is relatively simple as you have to keep a fair thickness to allow for the carving. The drawing of a vast number of lines of different colours, like the method used by Stuart Mortimer is of an...

Binh Pho (pronounce Bin Fo), a well know Vietnamese artist, was in France last week during which some of us where meeting to exchange experience and points of view. Binh discovered wood turning some years ago and soon realized the limits of traditional woodturning. He kept turning long and thin...

Hello every one I’m back from a travelling woodturning week and, as usual I see many wonderful realizations on the forum. We were professional wood turners working together and exchanging techniques and opinions. When a lathe was available and the hands were itching we only had to pick a piece...

I do not mean that you never doit, but you could enjoy doing it in a sink that you would have turned yourself. The one below was exposed at the 4 days event ,“la Passion du Bois”, in Grenoble France, together with plenty of other turned art work.

I do not know if you turn a lot of Alder. Here in Europe very few wood turners like it. I find it a very nice, though light wood. Here is an example of an Alder bowl mounted on a maple based which was ebonised.

The golden ratio, usually denoted ('phi'), expresses the relationship that the sum of two quantities is to the larger quantity as the larger is to the smaller. The golden ratio is the following algebraic irrational number with its numerical approximation This number is still quite frequently...

This vase is the end-of-week project of a beginner after a 4 days training program. Passionate, he came with his own wood asking if it was good to be turned. I told him to keep it until the en of the week, and he turned it Friday. It is Bubinga. As you can see he really grasped all the basics of...

I went to the workshop thinking I was going to turn some decorations for the Xmas tree. Putting some order to the mess I held the Escoulen chuck and that tickled me so hard that I turned something esle. Here is what shout have been a Xmas decoration.

After the segmentation exercise, here a realization that you can see at the customer’s premises.

European Parliament Scandal! Every year the European Parliament moves to Luxembourg in France for one week, just because the French wanted that. It’ is not much of a problem till you know that the move of the Parliament members, collaborators, secretaries, and office papers costs the community...

I once sow the picture of a "three point steady" where the frame was a wooden one, and on it were attached some strings which were holding a very thin and long wooden stem. Does any one of you has used them? Do you have a picture of it? many thanks in advance