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Hi all

Thesa are my pieces to go on the chess board of 64 pieces which the club is going to sell and donate the money to a charity I will post pictures of the finished project when its done

Cheers Sadsam

Hi all

This is a trial piece that has turned out pretty much ok

It is made from several differant hard woods the top is 16 wedge shaped pieces glued together and the bottom from the same woods the photo shows the format on the bottom

When turning the top it split at one joint so I managed to repair it with sliver of wood

Apart from that it was ok

I'm now a hoping a to make a larger one with a walnut border added say a foot diameter thicker wood and make it bowl

Comments gratefully accepted

P s to all readers come on let's see some of your work on the site good or bad it all ways makes a topical discussion

Thankyou Sadsam

Cheers derek will add that there is one lad in the club who makes these by the bucket load but he may not be sub scibing to this

Hi all

Our woodturning club are going to make a 64 piece display chess board style

Frame of 2inch x 4inch wood turning a 20mm square base and a turned top of your own choice

Has anybody got any suggestion we have got acorns snowmen Christmas trees vases looking for something different

The project when finished will be given to be sold for a charity

Thankyou both for your comments

Sorry I'm late in replying iv been on holiday

I saw this creation in our club Christmas competition took a phot2o showeqdit to my other half the result is 7made 3 to go then I can sit back and wait for Santa to deliver them

I'm hiding them until then every body who sees them wants one

Very nice derek how did you do in the comp

Really impressive I'm blower if i can work out how you have got the silhouette of the soldier on

This was made from scrap pieces as a chopping board included strips together then cut them into strips across turned them end grain up didn't like so glued the strips together into a square put it on the lathe turned it round then cut it into more pieces twisted them round a bit glued them back hollowing as it grew it did fail twice on the clue so had to more or less start again but got there in the end

Edited By sad sam on 16/10/2018 16:11:04

Hi Derek live never thought of it I've made several for presents

They do look a nice present and I enjoyed making them I got 13 out of the wood which was literally scrap

So will have to make another can't leave it at an unlucky number

Thankyou for your comments

Edited By sad sam on 01/09/2018 10:18:01

Wood saved from the bin

Something useful from scrap wood

Hi Derek cheers for that

The flower vase took a while to make my mind up how I was to make it

The next one I am going to try a different method i.e. steaming the blank and pressing it

The disadvantage with that is all the work is wasted if it fails so I suppose I will have to have a practise run

But it will be a while I've got other things to do first

I have enjoyed making these two projects The flower bowl wasn't of a pain and by no way turn out perfect so I will be making another and hopefully improve

Mind you the forewoman loves it

The feature ring vase took a while to do but was enjoyable

Recently made work the flower bowl is still a work in progress

hi derek

the economy bowl was my first that is why I made a silly error I should have binned the last piece and added a

bigger piece it will be right on the next one

with the burr I have left the chucking foot on because I could not make my mind up as to whether l was happy with a the finish I'm not its going back in the lathe and I will probably still leave the chucking point on I like it

but your comments are as always fully appreciated

The burr is 320mm x ummm it's a lovely piece of wood hope I've done it justice

The economy bowl is walnut and lime when I made it I should have binned the htm section and 'replaced it with a solid one