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Well, I have had some more workshop time so been making all sorts for Friends, neighbours and an exibition in the village at the end of June.

I even managed to win a small photo comp on a woodworking forum I'm on. The comp is a monthly one where we have to make certain things each time and Feb was to make a candlestick. Mine was in Russian olive and turned out really well.

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/1Candlestick7.jpg[/IMG]

It started out a bit like this

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Russianolive.jpg[/IMG]

The next was 4 identical egg cups. Not as easy as it sounds. The first is easy, but to get the rest the same when the only control you have on the tools is you is good fun? It turned out that the judge was more interested in how easy they are to clean than was stated in  the rules, so I didn't get anywhere with these.

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/1Eggcup42.jpg[/IMG]

Coasters for a neighbour came out nicely

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Odettecoasters1.jpg[/IMG]

Some potpourries too

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Potpourris.jpg[/IMG]

I'll post some more when I have a bit more time. I hope that you like them?

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Thank you folks!

The potpourries, 2 are cherry and yes, spalted beech. I was lucky enough to be given 4 cherry logs by a neighbour. They had been cut several years back and just left in the garden. Lucky too in that they didn't go on the fire! I have made a lovely little bowl from it for the lady. All I have to do now is to deliver it. I always try to give something to anyone who gives me wood.

There is a photo on my web site showing an 'almost accident' with one piece of cherry. I shone a light into it and took a photo of the 'glowing' wood. It was thin enough to show through[:-))] It almost turned from a potpourrie to a small bowl!

The candle stick was a lovely thing to make and I'm always amaised at just what can be inside a grotty piece of wood. I think that that is one of the bits of magic about working it. The egg cups shouldn't be too difficult to clean. There are no little corners in there for stuff to get stuck in and unlike the one I made for myself years back, there won't be the problem of the empty shell getting stuck in it because you can push it out from underneath [8-|]

I must go and finish a roller rattle now. I'll post a photo of it when I've done, plus some others too!

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Thank you Vivienne, but when you see them from the top I think that you will agree that light holders would not be a good idea?

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/1Eggcup62.jpg[/IMG]

Of course, you haven't seen that angle..

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If you have never seen hazel flowers, here are a few

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Hazelflowers.jpg[/IMG]

'onest! Would I tel you a lie already? They are turned from a branch from one of our hazel trees. The pen is there to give an indication of the size.

I was also asked if I could replicate an antique dish for our neighbour. It took a bit of searching to get the suitable wood, but I got there in the end

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Claudedish1.jpg[/IMG]

cut it into rounds on my band saw

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Claudedish2.jpg[/IMG]

and finished up with a rather nice dish, in ash

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Claudedish4.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f180/Jonzjob/Claudedish5.jpg[/IMG]

I hope that she likes it? If not we do so it won't go to waste[:-))]

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Thank you Idun.

It is sanded down to 400 grit, 0000 wire wool and buffed with wood shavings. That gives it a lovely sheen all on  its own. Then a coat of celulose sanding sealer and a coat of melamine lacquer. When that's all dry I buff it with 3 stages of buffing wheels, the final giving it a coat of carnube wax. Fairly time consuming but the finish is well worth it..

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[quote user="Jonzjob"]Thank you Idun.

It is sanded down to 400 grit, 0000 wire wool and buffed with wood shavings. That gives it a lovely sheen all on  its own. Then a coat of celulose sanding sealer and a coat of melamine lacquer. When that's all dry I buff it with 3 stages of buffing wheels, the final giving it a coat of carnube wax. Fairly time consuming but the finish is well worth it..
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And that explains why we never get the finish I would like on things. Until now I have ended up having a go and my finishes are quite good, as good as a lot of the bought stuff we see and buy, in fact sometimes better. However, seeing that, I reckon that I am going to have to go on a course and learn.

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Can't resist, this lady's not for turning! ............sorry[Www]

 

No I don't turn, a friend of ours used to in France and make all sort of wonderful things. We are back in England and I had been considering a 'finishing wood' course, so I hope that I'll find one somewhere to do one this autumn, the  lovely photos of your work have reminded me.

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[quote user="Pads"]JJ do you make wooden fire pokers ?

Tee.....[/quote]

Of course I do then I can poke fun at you[6][6 and give you some 'stick'. I 'branched' out to do them right from the 'roots' of my hobby. I thought that you had 'twigged' that?

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