A couple of things

[pyurgal]

Here are a couple of items that I did recently.

1. A cup and ball made out of mesquite and poplar.
2. A top made out of osage orange. This turned out pretty good except the wood was a bit wet and the top developed two cracks in it but it still works fine.
3. An eggish shaped item. I wanted to try segmented turning and glued up a couple pieces of mesquite and canary wood. I need to get a band saw in order to make smaller segments. These are about 3/4 of an inch in width. A bit of a pain to cut when using a 10 inch miter saw. I would have liked to make the segments around 1/4 of an inch in width.
4. A bottlestopper made out of bloodwood. I have made about 10 bottlestopper tops and this is one of the better ones. When I get around to it, I will post pictures of the others.

Woodturning is very addictive. I am having so much fun doing this. For only doing this for about 6 months, I think I am doing an ok job.

Enjoy!

Paul

 

[rjwolfe3]

Very nice!

 

[PenMakerWillie]

Great job Paul! I've been turning for about 9 months but have only done pens. Am wanting to get into the bottle stoppers and things like coffee/ice cream scoops. I bet they're fun.

 

[Padre]

Nice stuff!!!

 

[Rangertrek]

Very nice, I like all of it. I like the simple but elegant shapes on bottle stoppers. Some get to carried away with coves and beads, for me the one you did is simple, clean, good shape.

 

[pyurgal]

Thank you everyone.

I like keeping things simple and clean looking when doing the stopper tops. The nice thing about doing them is that you can make a lot of them and then buy the hardware at a later time.

I have done a couple of coffee scoops and they are easy to do. I also made a ice cream scoop using the PSI kit. That was not that bad to do also. I know, they don't exist without pictures. I will post pictures of them sooner or later. :biggrin:

Here are a couple more stopper tops that I did. One is out of purpleheart and the other out of poplar. I use a lot of poplar to practice with since it is so cheap to buy and very easy to work with.

Paul

 

[rtodasr]

very good work... keep challenging yourself