woodturning – Graeme Skinner

Writing time

Graeme Skinner — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:54:53 +0000

Well, not really, decided to try turning a pen, the wood was from a tree that came down in storm Arwen in 2021, the box is from some oak offcuts.

Gandalf the Gnome

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:23:20 +0000

A little woodturning project to distract me for an afternoon

The hat is turned from Yew, the body Beech, and the nose and tip of the hat Cherry.

Keep on turning

Graeme Skinner — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:49:07 +0000

Or, Oh No I turned an Ent!

This morning I decided to start sorting out the new workshop, it’s not the most exciting of jobs but needed doing. After a while of moving boxes of tools, stacking wood….. I put the lathe together and found a suitable place for it. Then I wondered if it still worked as it had been a while since it turned anything. Satisfied that it started I then wondered if the chisels were sharp

This is a piece of Sapele otherwise known as Entandrophragma cylindricum