Richard Findley
Established Member
Hello all,
It's been a while since I last posted so I thought I'd do an update for anyone that's interested.
Well, on Oct 10th I got married!!! but the story begins a little before this.....
I had planned a nice relaxing week before my wedding, finish a few odds and ends, do a delivery of walking canes to my (best) customer and generally chill out. The best laid plans however!! A get a phone call less than 2 weeks before the big day: "Could you turn some Newel Posts for us? We're restoring a large house which has 2 staircases and I need 11 Newel Posts turning" well, not one to turn down business from a new customer I says "of course I can!" D'oh!!
Much hard work and several late nights later and I get them sent out. The customer is very happy with them. There is 11 in total, ranging in sizes from 1175mm upto 2750mm. Now my lathe can only take about 1m so all of them needed joining, can you spot the joins???
Turned out of 70mm PAR Redwood Pine. Was nice quality timber and turned nicely.
Anyway, to add to the stress the future Mrs F wasn't feeling too well on the run up to the big day and with the dreaded Swine Flu in my mind I had images of having to cancel the whole thing!!! Ahhhh!!!
The day came though, she was feeling much better and I was surprisingly relaxed. The day was perfect and went really well. Unfortunatly no photos to show just yet but will post a couple when we get them.
Tuesday night we went down to Heathrow and caught a plane on Wednesday to New York for our honeymoon!! It was fantastic, here's a few piccy's for your viewing pleasure!!
You know what that one is, right?
Self explanitory
Empire State building from a distance
Chrysler Building from a distance, both are quite Art Deco but I much prefer the Chrysler!!
See!!
Back to work now though.
I hope you enjoyed my little photo gallery,
Cheers,
Richard
It's been a while since I last posted so I thought I'd do an update for anyone that's interested.
Well, on Oct 10th I got married!!! but the story begins a little before this.....
I had planned a nice relaxing week before my wedding, finish a few odds and ends, do a delivery of walking canes to my (best) customer and generally chill out. The best laid plans however!! A get a phone call less than 2 weeks before the big day: "Could you turn some Newel Posts for us? We're restoring a large house which has 2 staircases and I need 11 Newel Posts turning" well, not one to turn down business from a new customer I says "of course I can!" D'oh!!
Much hard work and several late nights later and I get them sent out. The customer is very happy with them. There is 11 in total, ranging in sizes from 1175mm upto 2750mm. Now my lathe can only take about 1m so all of them needed joining, can you spot the joins???
Turned out of 70mm PAR Redwood Pine. Was nice quality timber and turned nicely.
Anyway, to add to the stress the future Mrs F wasn't feeling too well on the run up to the big day and with the dreaded Swine Flu in my mind I had images of having to cancel the whole thing!!! Ahhhh!!!
The day came though, she was feeling much better and I was surprisingly relaxed. The day was perfect and went really well. Unfortunatly no photos to show just yet but will post a couple when we get them.
Tuesday night we went down to Heathrow and caught a plane on Wednesday to New York for our honeymoon!! It was fantastic, here's a few piccy's for your viewing pleasure!!
You know what that one is, right?
Self explanitory
Empire State building from a distance
Chrysler Building from a distance, both are quite Art Deco but I much prefer the Chrysler!!
See!!
Back to work now though.
I hope you enjoyed my little photo gallery,
Cheers,
Richard
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