wooden spatulas, made from crabapple wood
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What is it good for...?
Parking place for rings and glasses!
Made for a friend for spinning wool
Three-section base and eight-section drum.
Roughly turned and glued together.
Mostly turned, almost ready to sand & varnish.
A Persin drum for my sister's little grandaughter, made from 11 sections of yew. Ideally it should be made from a single section of Maple.
Varnised and goat skin applied
Yew tree is known for being poisonous, but having applied a good coat of varnish and the unlikelihood of a child being able to get her mouth round such a large object, I think possibility of any issue is virtually none.
Rescued a heavy duty mahogany door,
and the wood was so good
I had to make something from it.
For now, being short of ideas,
my friend asked for a cutlery box.
And here it is, covered in Danish oil.
The baby olive tree my brother was nurturing in his flat did not grow to adulthood, so he thought the narrow stem could be of use to me. For some reason he had cut it into 5 segments. And that is why I had to make them into segmented pens...!
Mortar & Pestle made from beech. Apparently beech is an anti bacterial wood which is why butcher blocks are made from it.
These are called "mill" and are used for physical exercise in traditional Iranian sports halls (zur-khuneh).
To use them, holding the handles they are lifted over ones shoulders and then to the rhythm of a drum, each is moved all the way to the back without touching ones body.
Ring and bracelet holder. Made it for my granddaughter
Another attempt at making a drum, this time the wood was cherry and despite controlled drying it cracked, so I just filled the cracks with resin!
Kitchen paper towel holder
Smaller branches of my cherry tree can also be
turned into useful objects.
Albeit one can use it as a pen holder!
My cousin in Munich asked me to make him a Tumbak, that is a Persian drum. Still looking for a tree trunk around 30cm in diameter, meanwhile experimenting on18cm diameter from my neighbour's tree
All done ready for skin to be installed on top. A 30cm diameter will be much more difficult to balance and to figure-out the process of hollowing all the way through, while still being able to mount it on the lathe.
Yew and pear wood. My sister wanted a larger one. Persians like a larger serving of nuts when they sit around solving world's problems.
Well, not wood turning, but I enjoyed making it. The wife took a while to appreciate it!
This is maple burr with a long exposure to the weather and very dry to work with - can serve as a pen holder.
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