Not so good, can't make an apple :(

[Woodmonkey]

I had a Mars bar halfway through does that count?

 

[Grahamshed]

It counts if it helped you work, rest and play

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

you can imagine the creative dept as they tried to assemble the ditty for the famous ad:

A Mars a day helps you work rest and.....fur up your arteries......no it just isn't catchy enough......

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Calling Richard Findley....

Got any dimensional advice on pears please Richard? Screwed one up royally today

 

[Richard Findley]

You called...?? :wink:

I make apples from roughly a cube of 3" timber (although recently I've been making them slightly more squat, from about 2 7/8" by 3") pears I base on a conference style and cut the blank about 3 3/4" - 4" long. You can use slightly less thick timber for pears as well, but it's up to you.

Just remember to keep the curve flowing, the widest part is maybe 1/4 of the way up.

HTH

Richard

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

You called...?? :wink:

I make apples from roughly a cube of 3" timber (although recently I've been making them slightly more squat, from about 2 7/8" by 3") pears I base on a conference style and cut the blank about 3 3/4" - 4" long. You can use slightly less thick timber for pears as well, but it's up to you.

Just remember to keep the curve flowing, the widest part is maybe 1/4 of the way up.

HTH

Richard

Thanks Richard

The last one looked like a light bulb I'll try your approach and see where it takes me.

 

[woodfarmer]

Been away from te turning as had other stuff to do. The good thing is I ended up with a length of gatepost spare so put it between centres and made a start on another apple. Not finished but am happy enough with the bottom half and hope when the top has been rounded it will be acceptable. Today I had ago at cutting apple blanks from short ends of timber from offcuts of bowl blanks. Apart from the half dozen bits of pine, have 5 each of Yew and walnut although with some bad bits in the wood. ( they were from scrap ends). Also 3 from the acacia branch I took down last week and a couple cherry and two from a very exceptionally figured piece of oak. So that should keep me busy. The gatepost is just a tad over 3 inches diameter so the apples will end up a bit bigger. key thing is the proportions.

The gatepost rounded off.

The haul of blanks and some of the leftovers.

On teh left, really nice figured oak.

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

Nice.

 

[Grahamshed]

Very nice