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Limed Ash Bowl
Inverted Turning
Fruit Turning
The Audience

Limed Ash Bowl

John started by turning an ash blank mounted on a screw chuck.  He cut a foot for his chuck on the bottom and polished as far as possible. He then reversed the piece and cut the inside of the bowl. Having polished the inside of the bowl, he used a wire brush to clear the grain of dust on the rim and then applied green spirit stain to the rim very carefully! Notice the glove on his right hand. Keeping the edges of the rim square is difficult, so John uses a sanding block.  To finish off with, John used liming wax to fill in the grain to give that traditional limed effect. Back to the top

Inverted Turning

The original piece after quartering and inverting Mounted between centres Shaping the ends Close up of an end showing the spigot and end shape Polishing The finished turning with bowl and stand added

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Fruit

Roughing out Cutting the indentation Reverse chucked to cut the other end.  Note the piece of card between work and chuck Making sure the stalk fits The turned ebony stalk Shaping the mushroom Parting off the mushroom Some finished items on display

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Club Members

Robin showing us what a nice pair he's got! Tony and Barry enjoying the show The spellbound audience

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