Recent Club Meeting

Below are some cell phone snap shots from our show and tell table at our club's most recent meeting. The comment was made , and supported by others, that the quality of the work being shown has improved in leaps and bounds. See for yourself. 

Recent Efforts

Needed a gift for an upcoming wedding and I was presented with a few boxes of turning blanks.
So I found a few spare hours to spend on the lathe.
 Below is the gift set.  A cocktail shaker, a chiller for white wine, a coaster for red wine and a bottle stopper.  I really like making this set.  The bad news is the supply of the inserts for the cocktail shaker is dried up.  I can't find them anywhere.
The wood is a staved construction using cherry with a walnut spacer.  The bottle stopper is solid walnut.

A group of bottle stoppers.  Mesquite, cherry and walnut.

More chillers. Both from cherry.  The one on the right is staved.  The coaster is from the cut off of the chiller blank.

From the bunch of turning blanks I received I found this Black Locust blank.  The blank was cut with the pith left in and as a result had some light cracks. It was too pretty to not use it for something.  Gloria was looking for a bowl about this size so I used some brown CA glue on the cracks and turned this bowl from it.  It is for our own use so we will see how it holds up.  Walnut oil finish and is about 6 inches in diameter.