We live sort of center of this map above, and that big blob of rain is headed right for us. It is 43 out right now, so there is no threat of snow at the moment. Looks to me like it wants to make up for all that did not fall over the summer. All…
Author: The Lord of The Manor
Today’s Turn
Today I hardly saw the lathe till evening. I spent the morning with out oldest loading firewood at the dump, then we came home, unloaded it, and split it all up. He was very eager to have dry wood because he has been having troubles burning some wet wood he has at his place. There…
Today A Whistle
This afternoon I turned and made a noisy whistle. Some people won’t be thanking me at Christmas.
Today In The Shop
I turned today. I tried a bobbin lace bobbin, but I don’t have quite fine enough tools to do something as small as those need to be. Afterwards I tried doing anything I could out of a small piece of scrap left over from my main turn today. That worked out to be a handle…
Today I Turned Two Shop Mallets
Yesterday’s turn from the maple went great, but hollowing it out was terrible. It was such a hard piece of wood! So I decided that if I was going to keep working from that wood, I needed to do something solid today. I did two somethings! I have been envying the carver’s mallets I see…
Today’s Turn
We did some cleaning chores in the house this morning, and I did not get started in the shop till after lunch. Turn a bit of maple, I thought. It will be easy and fun, I thought. It was. It was the work I did after that that hurt. But first, the choice of wood….
Next Turnings
I did some more turnings today. I wanted to try tops out, and a finial, and that’s what I did. The tops are not great. I can get the short fat one to spin sometimes. The other always spins on its head. It’s a start! I will work on it. At the moment I am…
And So It begins…
Here is the first actual project I turned on the lathe. It is a yarn bowl. I will do another and put the squiggly gap in it when I have turned a couple of more items. I will not be turning again till I can solve a couple of things I discovered while doing this….
The New Odyssey
I turned 50 this year. What a year! It’s been a great half century! One does look at that, and think, “goodness, have I been alive for so long? I don’t feel like it!” But, one has. And one is thinking that either that means I am ‘over the hill,’ edging closer to death, or…
The Snow Is Nearly Gone
The farm is nearly clear of any snow, apart from the shadows and the like. The valley is still white, especially the mountain fronts. It is cold out there, with the wind still blowing, the temperature is 39, but with the wind-chill, it is 34 by feel. The sun is shining, but in that wintery,…