Never tried off center turning on a spindle so watched our own Mike Waldt video and made this attempt… Not quite how I envisiaged it but the wildly spinning off…
May ’23 Texture Challenge Slideshow
Well done, and thank you to all our members who contributed to this challenge of ‘Texture’. It is always such fun looking through the submissions to the challenges and see…
Unholy Grail
All three pieces are maple. The base and cup are textured, dyed black, and covered with a silver gilt. The inside of the cup is bronze gilt. The skeletal hand…
Learning to add texture with a Dremel
Harder than I thought! Later added copper finish
Textured by nature
Horse Chestnut burr is not suitable for texturing tools it basically falls apart, but this textured rim was done by nature, I just applied a blow torch to colour it…
4 x carnival night lights
Textured with a blow torch, coloured wax, battery operated tealight candle and carnival sea urchin.
Cross-hatched textured bowl
My textured bowl is the culmination of several experiments! I used a Dremel to create the groves on the rim and then covered it in black lacquer. I then rubbed…
Gold, Pink and Blue Lamps
Olive ash, textured by scorching, with pink / gold wax in the grain and an overcoat of clear satin lacquer.
Sycamore spirals.
A 14″ by 2.5″ sycamore bowl with wide textured and coloured rim texturing was done with the Robert Sorby spiraling and texturing tool and the colour is pear green from…
Black and White, Blue Light
Ash, scorched for textured, dyed black with white wax in the grain, and blue fairy lights.
Exit via the gift shop…
My submission to the texture challenge ended up with a sort of African vibe to it. My first attempt at a hollow form, first time ‘carving’, first time painting carving……
Blue Light
Made from Ash. Scorched for textured, dyed black with blue wax in the grain.
Trio of Texture
Three different pieces using different techniques
“Viking Compass” bowl
12×2 Oak artificially aged, compass by pyrography
Viking Sunset Bowls
Inspired by Nick Agar
Golden Wedding Present
10×2 Sapele
Textured & Coloured Magnetic Pen Holder
Textured Magnetic Pen Holder
Textured Magnetic Pen Holder
Textured & Coloured Magnetic Pen Holder
Trinket boxes
Three trinket boxes I made for a couple from Teeside. Bases are made from Ovankol, Gonco Alves and Purple Heart. The lids are pear with coloured Sycamore finiobs with a…
A Funnel Clock
Its name gives it away. Yes a clock was not the original plan but with a jointing piece of ash waxed with a dark wax, a purchase from Martin and…
Textured Mulberry
Textured hollow vessel, wood species is Mulberry. Vessel size is 7″ high by 5″ diameter. Process used for texturing, from bottom to top. Bottom was created using a Sorby micro…
Texturing March 23
First try with texturing tools and stains. This is alder textured using sorby tool, then stained and silver embellishing wax used in the texture
Ukibori (relief carving)
Relief carving that consists of elevated detail above the surface was used to create the texture on this bowl.
Textured brick pot
Bricks were created with pyrography, 5 different colours (Pitt pens) were randomly applied to create the brickwork pattern, this was left to dry, then spayed with cellulose sanding sealer, and…
textured Platter
Ash platter textured with an angle grinder and a “flappy sending wheel” ebonized with HS black laquer topped up with Jo Sonja Iredescent paint . the rim is finished with…
Lumiere’d Wagon Wheel
Turned 2nd half of previous sycamore blank, then textured with the fluting jig. Lumiere paints applied to fluted areas and black to the untextured areas. A quick spray of sanding…
Orange is the new black
Carved using 3 of the mixed shape carbide cutters from woodart, until the desired width and depth was obtained. I then realised this could have been done quicker with the…
Tiger platter
10”x2” sycamore platter, proxxon, intrinsic honey, burnt orange and ruby
Black ash live edge
A 7 x 5 inch bowl with the bark intact. A very tactile piece with the bark providing texture.
Tealight holders
Fine texture was created by using the flame thrower… erm, I mean blow torch on these small ash Tealight holders.