Robert L Webb
28th June 2001, 02:04 PM
Hi
My name is Robert (Bob) Webb. I am a member of the WA Woodturners Association and have been for about 7 years. I do a fair amount of turning,(I am retired) but have avoided the temptation to turn it into a business and am strictly an amateur. My wife and I expect to be moving to Brisbane in the next few months (all our kids are on the east coast) and I plan to continue my association with a woodturners group when we are settled. At the moment I am making decisions about which of my timber I should keep and which I can reasonably get rid of.
Like most woodturners I have a go at a lot of stuff although I do turn quite a few vases and more recently Windsor rocking chairs which I have started to do a bit of carving on.
I would be grateful for information on how difficult or not so difficult, expensive or not so expensive, woodturning blanks and timber generally is in Brisbane. Most of the wood I have has been accumulated from trees that people decided to remove from their backyards. The few bits of burl I have were simply accumulated from friends. I bought some jarrah at auction recently to make a few rocking chairs and was planning to turn it into chair components to make it less bulky for removalists.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
Bob Webb
My name is Robert (Bob) Webb. I am a member of the WA Woodturners Association and have been for about 7 years. I do a fair amount of turning,(I am retired) but have avoided the temptation to turn it into a business and am strictly an amateur. My wife and I expect to be moving to Brisbane in the next few months (all our kids are on the east coast) and I plan to continue my association with a woodturners group when we are settled. At the moment I am making decisions about which of my timber I should keep and which I can reasonably get rid of.
Like most woodturners I have a go at a lot of stuff although I do turn quite a few vases and more recently Windsor rocking chairs which I have started to do a bit of carving on.
I would be grateful for information on how difficult or not so difficult, expensive or not so expensive, woodturning blanks and timber generally is in Brisbane. Most of the wood I have has been accumulated from trees that people decided to remove from their backyards. The few bits of burl I have were simply accumulated from friends. I bought some jarrah at auction recently to make a few rocking chairs and was planning to turn it into chair components to make it less bulky for removalists.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
Bob Webb