November Challenge - Post your entries here

[nev]

November Challenge - A Christmas Decoration.

This could be a table ornament/ centrepiece/ tree hanging type ornament/ a tree topper or even a tree! Just something that would come out for the festive period and then be relocated to the attic shortly afterwards.

Usual rules:
Open to anyone and everyone.
New work only please.
To be made on the lathe using wood turning tools.
no minimum or maximum size.

Can be made of multiple woods if desired
Decoration, colouring, texturing is allowed, but again remember its about the turning :wink:
You may also incorporate a non turned item e.g. urchin shell/ bauble etc if desired (a la Ashley Harwood)

Please post 3 or 4 images of your work along with a brief note about how you made it, what tools and finish you used, what wood (if known) and the objects dimensions etc.

for example
1 showing a general view
1 showing a top down/ internal view
1 showing a side view
1 optional photo showing any other feature you think might be of interest

Image size please use image size 640 x 480 0.3 mp, same previous months

Please upload your pics and description between ..

10pm on the 26th
and
10pm on the 28th

After this time the thread will be locked for Judging
Results will be given on or around 30th

This months judge will be Paul Hannaby.

Any entry's that are outside the rules and requirements will not be judged
The Judges decision is final ( Any negative comments re judging must be via PM only and not on the open forum )
NO Critique or comments on any work until After the Judging and results please.

Have fun! and just a reminder ANYONE can join in.

 

[dennisk]

Decoration in wenge, bloodwood, and quilted maple. Turned each maple cup in jaws to rough outside shape and drilled a 3/8" hole in small end . Turned some wenge into the round with a stub tenon on one end and that was glued into the hole in the maple. Wenge dowel into spigot jaws to hollow the maple and get ready for the blood wood ring which was glued on to the top and turned,then all was glued together between centers using the lathe for a clamp, then turned between centers, top end turned to bout 1/4" and then pointy end finished up and parted off using the old left hand steady, and then the top end parted off the same way. Sanded to 320 and then 5 coats laquer. 11 3/4" by 2 1/4" using spindle gouges and 1/8" parting tool. Thanks to everyone involved and please support the competition. Please excuse the big gross eye hook , its all I had for now, it will be changed out.

 

[heatherw]

Ok, here's my entry.

I really didn't feel like making a christmas decoration, bah humbug and all that, also prefer to ignore Christmas until December at least, but in the end I cobbled something together, and maybe the finial will come in useful for something else later. My partner says it looks like a UFO, but then he's been watching some strange films recently.

This month we're back to the sycamore, which I'm growing to appreciate, it's not too hard, but takes detail well and sands and finishes quite easily. I found a longish lump, turned it to a cylinder and marked out a square for a ball shape. Then i used the indexing function on the lathe to mark 12 equal segments and attempted to drill 25mm holes on every other one, however my mind was wandering and I did it wrong, which is why there are 2 smaller holes as a design feature. Back to the lathe, turned the ball, decided it would look better slightly flattened and then turned the beads on the top. The finial I decided had to be separate, there's no way I'm skilled enough to make a finial fixed to the ball, as it is I forgot to turn a spigot on the other end of the blank so as to be able to turn it round. The inside I smoothed a bit with a dremel and then I painted it gold. The finial was quite fun (since I'd conveniently forgotten that I was making a Christmas decoration) and though I'd marked out 10cm long and a rough scheme it sort of autoturned itself to a different pattern. There was a bit of spigot left over after parting off the finial so I turned a bead, painted it gold, red and gold and sanded it to mix the colours and, having made holes in the bead and the top of the ornament, proceeded to join them together with wire. The whole thing is about 18cm long and 6cm thick.

I'm off to the other computer now to upload the photos, by it's chilly in there.

 

[Melinda_dd]

Made from a Yew branch that was trimmed by local council last year and a Walnut off cut from old job

I used a Roughing Gauge, bowl gauge, spindle gauge during the making....

I drilled the yew and mounted it on my pen mandrel, then changed to my k10 chuck and turned the finial and the top.
All was finished with sanding sealer, a coat of friction polish and a coat of wax.

All the parts were then glued together and ribbon mounted

Apologise for picture 2 and 3.... realised I'd only took 1 picture of most of the ornaments I'd made so had to crop from the one picture.... hence the fuzzyness!!!

and breath!!

Thanks nev..... you can go to bed now!!!

 

[nev]

going, going, gone!