Turnspain

This pocket watch is made from a piece of Cocobolo and the stand from Oak. The pocket watch is 5.5cm in diameter and is fitted with a quartz movement. It has an imitation winder in brass that I turned on my metal lathe. The rear of the watch case has a pattern engraved with my rose engine and the pattern is then filled with gold embellishing wax. The Oak stand was made in 3 pieces and stands 16cm tall, it has two brass pillars again turned on my metal lathe. Finished in satin lacquer and then micro-crystalline wax.

This lidded chalice is 13cm tall and 7cm in diameter and is made from brown Ivory (wood not elephant). Turned on my conventional lathe and then the fluting was done on my rose engine. The underneath of the lid had a small pattern engraved by the rose engine and it was then filled with gold embellishing wax. It is finished in matt acrylic lacquer.

This African Blackwood box is 5.5cm tall and 5.5cm in diameter. It was turned on my normal lathe and then enhanced on my Rose Engine lathe. To enhance it a bit more I added a white paste stone to the centre of the lid and a smaller pale blue one one to the inside of the lid. I entered this into the woodturning section of the recent Heckington Show where it was awarded second place.

This small African Blackwood box is 5.5cm tall and 5.5cm in diameter. It was turned on my normal lathe and then enhanced on my Rose Engine lathe. To enhance it a bit more I added a red paste stone to the centre of the lid and a smaller one to the inside of the lid. To turn the basket wave on the outside I had to modify my usual cutter as it would have hit the chuck before it completed the pattern on the side of the lid so that cutter was modified on my metal lathe.

This little box is 60mm in diameter and 60mm tall. The bottom is a piece of Olive wood that has been ornamental turned to a basket pattern with a 16 bump rubber on my Rose Engine using a router cutter and drilling frame. The lid is a piece of Blackwood embellished with an 18 bump rubber and the UCF on my Rose Engine lathe. The finial is separately turned again in Blackwood. It is finished with satin lacquer and then waxed with micro-crystalline wax.

This shallow dish is 13cm in diameter and made from a piece of spalted Beech. Turned round and the back was turned on a conventional lathe. I then cut the outside using a 16 bump rosette on my Rose Engine and my new cutting frame. The cutting frame was then re positioned and the same rosette was used to cut the interior, going progressively deeper towards the centre to form the dish. The spalting seems to hide the ornamentation inside the dish so I may try gilding it with artificial gold leaf to see if it shows any better.

This is a 12cm in diameter clock in Zebrano with Ebony dowels to mark the quarters. Claimed by my wife.

This box was turned from a piece of unknown very hard wood in the centre with a base and top of Padauk. It stands 14cm tall and is 7.5cm in diameter and is finished in lacquer. The basket weave pattern on the outside was cut using a 4mm cutter on my ornamental lathe. The Inside of the lid, the inside and outside bottom of the box are enhanced with ornamental patterns. This box has been claimed by my wife for her collection of my turnings.

This capsule box stands 6cm tall and is 7.5cm in diameter. It is made from an unknown wood that was very hard with the remnants of a knot in the top edge. The lip to retain the lid is made from Bubinga. It has some ornamental engraving on the lid, the outer pattern of which was cut with a ‘spirograph’ type of rubber and the inner with a 16 bump rubber. It has a flower engraved on the bottom made with an 18 bump rubber. It is finished in lacquer and then buffed and waxed.