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I purchased my first lathe a few months ago and started to try and learn how to use it. I had no turning experience so I figured that the firewood pile would be a good place to start.
The lathe is a vintage craftsman bench top model so with some scraps and some cheap tools
this is some of my first ever turnings. Not much of a project to show off but it’s the only things I have taken pictures of.
-- Frank Auge---Nichols NY----"My opinion is neither copyrighted nor trademarked, but it is price competitive."
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11 comments so far
hap
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posted 158 days ago
i wood like to get in that wood pile.
-- hap, gunbarrel city tx.
FrankA
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posted 158 days ago
We had a big storm take down a big walnut and a cherry tree, the trunks are currently over a friends place waiting for there turn on his mill and the tops were cut up for bonfires next summer. When the logs are milled hopefully I’ll have something really worth posting here.
-- Frank Auge---Nichols NY----"My opinion is neither copyrighted nor trademarked, but it is price competitive."
DAN
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posted 158 days ago
looking good ! you taught yourself well !
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Karson
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posted 158 days ago
Frank a great job on the turnings. Nice firewood.
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rikkor
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posted 157 days ago
Beautiful!
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SteveM
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posted 157 days ago
I’ve been turning a couple of years and your work is excellent. Must have a good instructor ;)
Gustav
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posted 157 days ago
I had to read your description twice to see if I actually read you had no experience turning, those are some very nice pieces.
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Grumpy
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posted 157 days ago
Very nice Frank. It is amazing what you find on the firewood heap.
-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python
Scott Bryan
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posted 157 days ago
I give up. Between the posting for the boxes and turnings I am going to have to find more shop time somehow. These are gorgeous pieces that were almost (gasp) firewood. If these are “first” pieces then either (1) you have missed your calling as a woodworker or (2) turning is so easy that anyone can do it.
Somehow I suspect that (1) is the case here.
Beautiful work. Thanks for sharing.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
RobG
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posted 157 days ago
Very nice first work! That bowl is really nice with the way it necks down, that is not easy!! And you should check out the 2X4 contest and ask yourself how much of that walnut is really firewood?!?
-- Woodworking is Life. Anything before or after is just waiting.--S. McQueen sort of
MsDebbieP
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posted 157 days ago
these are lovely !!
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