starting over

Starting over

hello folks, I know that this blog has been inactive for a long time but just recently I have felt the need to write more or should I say.. say more than what I do on my social media accounts.

I really enjoy being in my workshop, (especially in the winter months) just the radio and the lathe is a perfect way to spend the hours, but with this time comes isolation, sometimes I don't leave my home/workshop for days at a time and I don't speak to anyone except my wife and daughter for weeks.

Turning an oak bowl

So when I go to write something on my Facebook page or on a woodturning forum I struggle to know what to say and find myself just saying the bare minimum to show the latest piece of work that I have made.

I wonder whether this makes people think that I am arrogant or somehow above the norm? as I don't tend to get the same level of interaction on my accounts that other people seem to get.
That really is not the case and I think its just a lack of practice I suppose and a fear of saying the wrong thing.

So I have decided to write again on this blog and get some practice!! as well as showing or talking about what I have been making or what problems I have been having.

Offset beech bowls

Hello folks here are two pieces which I made a few weeks ago.

Both are beech one is 14" x 7" and the other 13" by 5"

New hybrid blanks

Hello folks

here are eight new hybrid blanks that i have made recently, all of the blanks have been cast with stabilised burr horse chestnut.

to buy these blanks and many more please visit www.fromthetree.co.uk

AWGB front cover

hello folks

I am very proud and honored to have had another one of my images used on the front cover of the association of woodturners of great Britain newsletter. 

It is an oak vessel which I wrote an article about making, I also photographed it myself using my nikon d3200.

Offf set elm bowls

Hello folks here is a few pics of some off set elm bowls which I have made recently