Just thought I'd share my other craft that I do and it's woodturning. It's done using a lathe and most people would know what it is if I said you make baseball bats on it. I'm still new at it and these projects are what I've done so far. I hope to move onto making a bowl once I get the right tool. It should be here very soon, I'm not very patient with waiting for things to come in the mail.
They all look the same really. Lol
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Lovely projects. I love wood of all types and seeing it altered into other beautiful object is facinating. My OH has threatened to buy me the gear because when we go to crat shows I spend so much time at the wood turning lather and the stalls selling wooden things.
Mabel Figworthy wrote:Gosh, that's really good! How did you do the one with the ring round it ???
Thank you. That one is quite fun to do. Basically you carve a V shape but leave a small piece in the middle so the wood kinda looks line this (imagination time) \|/. Then you carve under that middle piece.
RosemaryH wrote:Lovely turned bell pull hangers......now there is a good thought....shall we start putting in our orders now.
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Too late! These really look nice. How do you finish them once they are turned? Oil? Wax?
These ones haven't been finished. They're just sanded and left. I have experimented with shellac and various other finishes too. All depends what kind of finish I want and what it'll be used for.
Showed these to hubby tonight and he explained your \l/ diagram to me as I didn't exactly get it ... but it now makes perfect sense and I'm well impressed with how it all works and turns out.
He really likes wood turning and likes your pieces as well.
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kell wrote:I know where to place my orders for bell pull hangers in the future! Lovely work.
It was exactly my thought! Beautiful work!
My daughter promised me some bellpull ends, but she learnt wood carwing, and I assume it is not so easy doing it with hands. And she has no time
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