Barley Twist

[Richard Findley]

Hi all

A while back, one of the forum members was looking for some twist work doing. My name was suggested and I got the job. Thank you all who recommended me!

It turned out to be a stretcher for a footstool. The original was full of woodworm - I'm assured long gone! The twist itself was the most challenging that I have had to deal with, but after some careful work with my little Proxxon angle grinder and lots of hand work, I got it finished.

Made in Beech, 50mm diameter and just shy of 800mm long

Cheers

Richard

 

[Inspector]

It looks good. My father was a partner an antique refinishing business and his part was the repairs that had to be done. Every season or so a piece of furniture would need a new section or replacement barley twist. He did his without power tools but like yours they were as good or better than new.

Pete

 

[CHJ]

That included small twist is certainly designed to put a concentration marker down, I can almost visualise the sigh of relief after every rasping session.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Excellent work Richard.

 

[Retire2004]

Yes, excellent work Richard. I followed the original thread by Mr Tree (I think) with interest, but it seemed to fizzle out. Then suddenly your finished masterpiece turned up on a certain American forum about 2 weeks ago. Surprised that you waited so long before unveiling it here.
Well done,
Tudor

 

[Richard Findley]

Thanks for your comments guys.

Tudor, I posted on the AAW site first because it's an easy site to post pictures on. You can upload direct from your file and the forum automatically resizes it. On here I upload to my website and have to resize myself - all a bit of a faff, so you guys had to wait til I got my back side into gear and put the picture up on my website! Sorry to keep you hanging :lol: :wink:

Richard