Woodturning
A blog about a log!
A few weeks ago, when I was on duty at our local gallery, the gentleman who does all the picture framing for us asked me if I wanted a piece of cherry-wood……I didn’t have to Read more…
mainteance
Starting afresh tomorrow!
Okay, let’s forget all the nonsense associated with this year and start tomorrow afresh. As if the spring and summer lockdown wasn’t difficult enough to ride out, and the autumn “Firebreak” equally tricky, the sudden Read more…
Training
What price “Craft”?
It’s a strange word, “Craft”! On the one hand we associate it with craftsmen and we can look back to Mediæval times when stonemasons, silversmiths, tanners and many other crafts established their craft guilds, with Read more…
Publications
Mixed Emotions!
This weekend has seen both great joy and great sadness. For a few years I have been liaising frequently with a gentleman called Mark Baker; one of the great ambassadors of the wood-turning world, who Read more…
Family
A crystal ball, conductor’s baton and a ram with a headache. What a week!
How not to end a week!
Commissions
Hello Old Friend!
It’s a few years since I last made any of these and if I recall correctly, I made about ten pair of them. The first pair was made for the John Lewis Partnership, at their Read more…
Commissions
Pixie Houses….who’d have thought it!
In these uncertain times which can be very hard on small businesses, we self employed artisans have to find alternate ways to earn a living. Purely by chance, such an alternative came my way a Read more…
Woodturning
Waste not, want not. One burr, three vessels!
Every once in a while a piece of wood comes my way that deserves something special. Last year I met Rob, an arborist from Oswestry, and Rob let me buy a few sycamore burrs that Read more…
Uncategorized
A quick snap it isn’t!
Going professional 4 years ago brought many challenges, not least of all, having to learn to take a photograph! OK, I already knew how to point a camera at a bowl and to take a Read more…
Exhibitions
A Night at the Opera!
A Night at the Opera, well, not really, but more like three months at the theatre! Our friends at Theatr Clwyd contacted us a few days ago to ask whether or not we could help Read more…