Today I split firewood for about an hour, then decided I would be having a lot more fun if I were to take a piece of poplar I split into pieces, and turned those pieces on the lathe. I cut my firewood to about 19 inches, so it was obvious right from the start what…
Dispatches From The Farm
Good Morning Wednesday
This week I have been bopping about on the place, doing different things, but never journaling any of them. So here’s a quick recap! One of the best parts of any week is when grandson comes by with his dad. But when he was here yesterday, I realized that the toilette seat I bought so…
It’s Going To Rain, And Other Musings
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…
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….