Category: August ’20: Texture & Flatter Platter

This month, members were challenged with experimenting with texture and turning a flatter platter – that’s all the information there were given! Have a look at the slideshow to see…

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I didn’t have any pieces large enough to turn the platter I wanted, so I decided to glue up some scraps, including a few different kinds of Oak, some Walnut…

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Square shape, used lime wood. Texture used over the bottom of the platter using texturing tool , coloured and burnt, topside, texturing, ? and infill, several times before finishing using…

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First ever platter about 4-5mm thick simple embellishment with 3mm parting tool and a pair of skew cut v grooves, finished the HS Tung oil

Not sure of the wood, probably elm or maple. Not sure what food I’d serve from it but I think it looks cool and it’s pretty flat.

Platter made in Birch. Intrinsic colour. Finish with hampshire Sheen gloss wax end microcrystalline wax.

Texture and platter in one, 27″ Burr Oak Platter textured with an Arbortech blade in an a 4.5″ angle grinder

I dont know what the wood is as it came from a log pile. I turned it and then coloured it with Intrinsic Colours and finished it with Hampshire Sheen…

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I wasn’t happy with my textured goblet, as originally entered, having put too much colour on the stem, so I put it back on the lathe and re-turned the stem…

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Beech, cut with a textured stripe finish on top rim, with a brass inlay into the crack, HS intrinsic colours to create & enhance the tiger stripes. Reverse side has…

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Inspired by a piece from Bodrighywood, but also a cross between an LP and a waterwheel in it’s race. Stand is not yet complete, I think I will take the…

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Textured with the Robert sorby texturing tool and colours with intrinsic colours

First real adventure into texturing. Enjoyed the process. And the turning is getting a bit easier, no catches occured during the making of these bowls ??

Finished with black intrinsic colour and hot pink embellishing wax. Inlays are brass and aluminium. All products are Hampshire Sheen.

Rolled edge and flat base made of lime and finished with a little Danish oil

Textured base I call flames from the coal. Some texturing by hand and some with a Sorby texturing tool which i have no idea about lol

This piece is titled ‘The River’. My inspiration is from a local river in Sequoia National Park. It’s both a flat platter and textured combination for the August challenge.

This London Plain bowl does’nt need any added texture. His own is enough:-) Bowl 25 x 15 cm

well with what is available in the shed ..found a piece of 4″ x 36″ that i used about 6 years ago to do house sign with router ..they were…

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Turned from a bit of very dry beech, reclaimed from an old bookcase, there is some odd grain in this one. Intrinsic colours and gold embellishing wax on the bottom,…

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I got a bit carried away with the Intrinsic colours on this one, but it’s all experience! The bowl was textured with a small carving gouge.

Red oak 4.25 inches high by 3.25 inches wide lines burnt in with wire. Piercing by dremel in random pattern finished in danish oil.

14 inch platter with a 3mm recess there is 5mm of space below the platter from the foot out the entire piece is 7mm thick.