turnerted
7th June 2011, 06:06 PM
G'day
At one of our club sales , about a 18 months ago , a builder came in and said he was building a verandah and had some 150mm merbau offcuts from the posts and could anyone use them so I put my hand up and came home to find three lengths from about 500 to 800mm long in my yard .
The first picture is of a lamp I made from one bit combined with a bit of privet . The design is about as simple as you could get but I like the contrast of the two timbers .
380mm high, to the bottom of the fitting, x120mm diam.
The second and third pictures are of the platter/shallow bowl that I took to the last Sydney GTG. This is cedar 340mm diam x70mm deep . I think the largest diameter I have turned .
Both turnings are finished with DO
Ted
At one of our club sales , about a 18 months ago , a builder came in and said he was building a verandah and had some 150mm merbau offcuts from the posts and could anyone use them so I put my hand up and came home to find three lengths from about 500 to 800mm long in my yard .
The first picture is of a lamp I made from one bit combined with a bit of privet . The design is about as simple as you could get but I like the contrast of the two timbers .
380mm high, to the bottom of the fitting, x120mm diam.
The second and third pictures are of the platter/shallow bowl that I took to the last Sydney GTG. This is cedar 340mm diam x70mm deep . I think the largest diameter I have turned .
Both turnings are finished with DO
Ted