Naturally cracked willow… Hampshire Sheen finishes, tied with copper wire and holes highlighted using brass eyelets. The rose is Rosa ‘Freddie Mercury’
Beaded bowl
A sycamore bowl with carnival colours, lacing and beads.
All Zipped Up
Hand on heart, I’m not a fan of “stitched” bowls and vases. I do appreciate the artistry involved but its just not my thing. Anyhow, in support of the club…
Twisty Turny Wibbly Wobbly Shiny Sparkly
Sycamore, turned then spiral carved. Hollowed inside to allow weights to help keep upright for “wobbling” finished with intrinsic colour and Chameleon flakes.
Wibley wobbly box
Made from Beech with a rounded bottom.
The Euchre Cup
Black cherry
Twisty Wobbly Mushroom
A cracked Willow log. The mushroom cap sits spins and wobbles on the stem. The crack and inside the cap is coloured using HS intrinsic colours.
Saturn
This is for Wibbly wobbly
A small oak pot.
An experimental pot piece turned on the lathe with a form of “weave” pattern.
Twisty Obelisk
A twisted Ash stem finished in ebonising laquer with Hampshire sheen gold embeleshing wax. The globe is hollowed sycamore again finished with ebonising laquer with Jo Sonya acrylic paint and…
Wobbly Wabbly Off Centre Bowl
Here is the first “off centre” bowl I have made and it was great fun. The bowl was turned round five times to complete. Initially I used a worm screw…
woobly twisty “Old gonk”
Twisty turny woobly wobble 😊😊😊 so a woobly “old gonk” with a “twisty hat ” finished with True grit , HS gloss wax and HS clear gloss lacquer on the…
Wibbly spalted Sycamore goblet
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