Thread: Makin' Shavings / Turner's Projects.

First one of a pair of "princess swords".

My sister in law's birthday was a few days back, seeing her on Wednesday.

So I made a candle/incense stick holder

Still a piece of the boxwood from the garden. Making the Aum was a particularly difficult task, boxwood being very dense.


I burnt the Aum to reveal it, and also burnt the inside of the bowl, in the spirit of the Japanese technique of shosugiban.

Endgrain bowl turning on boxwood is not easy to say the least...

And yes, it's bound to crack, and I am quite ok with that

Nice work. I dont mind cracks as much as I used too. Its not like I make things to be used/hold liquid. More for display.

Had to vent my frustration on something. So here's the other candle older from the other half of the same piece of wood




Keeping the bark was intended

Very nicely done.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Very nicely done.

I agree!...........

I have a batch of croap coming in not too long. Thing is, my croaps, being what's called "glycerine soap" should be stored in a closed container.

Now, I leave in a region famous for its walnuts ("noix de Grenoble"), which mean we have walnut orchards everywhere. Which means that, if you ask nicely, you can have prunings, or the occasional log. Well, for now I have a few big branches.

I have been working with with boxwood and have prepared some yew cuts, and these are heavy woods.
Therefore, while inspecting my branches, I found them very light, dark and full of wormholes, and feared the worst.
But then again, you never know unless you try (ash is quite light but a pleasure to turn), and, hey, it's free, what is there to lose ?

It was my first time turning walnut, my first time turning a box.
Oh, and I wanted to mainly use the skew, because I failed miserably last time I used it.

Meh, good enough.