So, today was a wood turning day for me after two aborted days with the unexpected cropping up!
Main reason to time myself making my very 'unique' tea light holders... Some nutter has ordered large quantity of them!! So, I decided to test how much time it takes to turn a set of 3 to try and work out a cost. Obviously having to include sourcing the wood, cutting, sizing, turning etc etc
Well, it too MUCH longer than expected. Mainly due to keeping them even more natural... I won't do this for the customer but it was a good test of time. Now just need to calculate a reasonable 'bulk order' price.
I then turned my attention to making a bangle... Have made one before, long time ago, but got the dimensions all wrong and it was more of a bicep bangle... The recipient liked it though as they were into Arican arts! Anyway, made this one FAR too thin and it cracked on parting. A quick repair with SG and a few minutes later continued parting to watch pieces fly everywhere
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Took a smaller, scrap piece of olive and started again only this time thicker sides! Even though I knew it was going to be small I just wanted to test myself a bit and see if I remembered how to do it! Well, it's come out ok actually. It is definitely for a child. The one problem I had was in finishing the parted side. Because it is so small I wasnt able to get in and really match the 'open side' if you like. It's close and I'm ok with it but I think I need some MORE practice on these!!
Never mind, I moved onto making a pendant, one of the off center ones. I like those a lot and someone asked me for one last night!! Superfast, supersticky double sided tape, nice piece of round, left over olive and its fixed to me board with two holes drilled ( i'm sure you know the one)... Bring up tail stock and start rounding off... My superfast, supersticky, superEXPENSIVE double sided tape does one and wraps its self on itself and thats the end of that!
Turned a nice little bottle stopper though from semi green olive (these small pieces are drying really nicely now!) I will find some batteries for my camera in a minute and take some shots of what i actually managed to finish without bits of wood flying around the workshop and put them into the gallery for come serious critique please.
I am getting the feeling that I need to dedicate time/a day to playing around with one item whether that is tea light holders, bottle stoppers, bangles etc etc.
Nice day for turning though, sun streaming through the open door, about 18 degrees outside, the birds singing, COLD red wine (no, not until finished turning!)
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