We offer a variety of turning courses to suit your previous experience – none, some or lots. If you’ve got lots, maybe you can come and teach us. For this course you need at least to know how to turn a candlestick and a side grain bowl. There is no coincidence that this is what you’ll have learnt on the first two of our courses, we try our best to do structured learning. If you’ve already got turning experience and want to develop that further, please get in touch with us, advanced turning doesn’t need to be just the examples we have set out as learning vehicles here, we can adapt to your needs.
PHASE 3 – OFF-CENTRE, DECORATED AND ASSEMBLED PIECES
- Six planned sessions.
- Cost is £35 per session including tools and materials.
- Maximum of 4 people per course.
- Each session typically lasts about 3 hours.
- Plan is one session per week – but negotiable
- Day and time are negotiable to suit to participants.
Course Schedule:
Three separate projects, but with some work on each project at each session:
A decorated rim bowl. Decoration to suit the wood and your own preference.
Shown here are two possible examples, but how you decorate the rim is limited mainly by your imagination
Phases include: turning the outside shape; defining the rim and embellishing it which may take multiple sessions to allow for drying time; taking out the inside of the bowl; final finishing
An assembled spindle piece – a German smoker like Albert pictured here.
If you’ve turned before you may have come across this idea. I found it through Colwyn Way who had taken the idea from traditional German turners. The design can be added to and modified to suit and build a caricature figure – maybe yourself, or maybe a friend or relative. We’ve had Jerome the builder (complete with hard hat and hammer in hand) and a Father Christmas with a very bushy beard.
Each part is turned individually. Some require offset turning, some accurate drilling. The central body is an end grain box in which you can light an incense cone – the smoke comes out of the figure’s mouth.
An off-centre bowl – a single offset on the easier end or with multiple offsets to make it harder.
Choices here can range from a single small offset as in the palm bowl on the left (offset of about a quarter of an inch) to the burr elm piece on the right with two separate bowls inset about 6 inches apart.
It depends on the piece of wood and how adventurous you are.
