I'm supposed to be preparing for the New Forest Show at the moment but other things keep getting in the way as usual. I spent most of the day repairing annoying electical faults on the big red 4wd tractor we use on the commons, and as a reward I treated myself to some more bowl turning afterwards.
This is one I finished yesterday and I quite like the way its turned out, despite the faults and knots in the grain which seem to add to the character with the spalting.
I want a couple more bowls to hold small turned items on my stand next week, so I prepared a couple more blanks and hope to find enough time to turn them before I leave on Sunday for a week in the New Forest - a bit of a woodsman's holiday.
Also on the bowl turning front I managed to make a couple more handles for hooks at the show last weekend - just using up old blank billets which had dried out and were too painful to turn or had faults and had been put aside. I fit a piece of copper pipe as a ferrule and then part drill the hole into the handle before burning the handle onto the tool by heating ithe tang until it's almost red hot with a blow torch.
Here are 3 more bowl hooks awaiting a sharpen and trying out. The shorter one is intended to be used for goblets and egg cups, at least that was the plan, we'll see how it works first.
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