New work (advise taken onboard)

[Angell 62]

Since my last post I've worked more on my tool work and started finishing my pieces with Sand Sealer and Microcrystalline Wax. I love the finish I get with it.
Again these are just practice pieces. I have no visions of selling my work and most of this stuff just goes on a shelf in my workshop to show progress lol

Enjoy.

P.S. I must improve my photography skills. Possibly make a box to photograph my work in hahhaa

J

 

[Fitzroy]

Really like the last bowl, I know nothing about turning but looks very finely made and finished.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

some fast developing skill going on there

I particularly like the effect left by the pencil glue-up.

 

[Angell 62]

The pencil project was a test to see if I could do it. I had been tagged on Facebook in pictures of a bigger vase by many of my friends asking if I could make one haha. i brought about 100 coloured pencils and had a practice. This blank was about 70 pencils.

J

 

[Stiggy]

Good work!

Yes I have been asked to make a pencil vase myself...

...after 40 minutes and 19 pencils i looked at what I had - which was a 1" blank!

When I said to the people inquiring that it would cost a lot to make, they decided to buy 240 pencils themselves and got bored after gluing around 40 together!

If you could buy pencil blanks for 2 and sixpence I imagine a lot more people would be doing them!

 

[donwatson]

Some lovely work there. Thanks for showing.

 

[Angell 62]

some fast developing skill going on there .

Thanks for this also Bob. The pics look like they are not mine though I can assure you these are pics of my work taken from inside workshop and in my kitchen haha.

I was told by you guys to move away from Dog Bowls and work on my tool finish and so this is what I have done. Hopefully I can start moving on to larger projects but Id like to perfect a consistent turn maybe a matching pari of bowls!

Thanks again though

J

 

[Dalboy]

They all look good, keep these and use them to look back on later in your turning adventure

I was told by you guys to move away from Dog Bowls and work on my tool finish and so this is what I have done. Hopefully I can start moving on to larger projects but Id like to perfect a consistent turn maybe a matching pari of bowls!

Yes many a new turner started by making dog bowl shapes, as for tool work that is something you never stop learning. Plenty of practice is the key to consistent work, looking at you work here you are certainly on a good path keep it up and don't worry over any failures look at them as part of the learning curve