I thought it was about time that I turned these resin infused hybrid pen blanks that I bought a while ago from The Burl Shed in Perth. Decided to make a Lucinda pen (9mm tube; slightly smaller than a sierra) and some keyrings with this blank: First attempt at turning this was a keyring and […]
Category: Wood Turning
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – June 2017 Newsletter
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Sadly three member passed away last month; although as the average age of members is 80 this will occur. Some good looking show and tell items but need more general woodwork items. Good to see that they are having a toy week, hope they get a good […]
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – May 2017 Newsletter
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Not a lot happening in this months newsletter; some good looking items at show and tell but mostly turned items plus an article on hand planes.. There are always brain teasers if you are interested in these; most are reasonably difficult. Unfortunately two members died recently; […]
Workshop update for Easter projects and to date!
Some old and new projects completed over the Easter break and last weekend. Finally finished updating my wife’s file storage cabinet. As shown below this is part of a built in wardrobe that she uses for storing cardboard files The main problem with this is that they fall over and are hard to get to […]
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – April 2017 Newsletter
Current Cubby House Turners Woodies club newsletter below. Not a lot happening in this months newsletter although good to see that the show and tell is featuring more woodworking items. [pdf-embedder url=”http://hugoswoodshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/2017-04-Cubbyhouse-news-April-17.pdf” title=”2017-04 Cubbyhouse news April 17″]
The Cubby House Turners Woodies Inc – February 2017 Newsletter
Current club newsletter below. Merv Larsson was a deserving winner of the “best of the best 2016″ with his impressive looking weather station and clock. Merv joined the club around the same time as me quite a few years ago and has gone from strength to strength; helps that he was a toolmaker by […]
Workshop Update – Toy trucks for charity and some pen turning
Working on the toy trucks for Christmas charity donations; have glued up all the bodies now need to paint them and add the wheels and fenders. Not looking forward to the painting so will try spray cans first. Trucks will be a single colour, either red or blue at this stage. Also managed some turning, […]
Managed to do a bit of woodturning over the weekend:
Haven’t done any turning for about two years so started off slowly; had to locate everything I needed first! Turned these only using a roughing gouge; a bit of practice before the pine below. First time I tried the sierra pen blank also first time I have turned a razor handle What happens with blunt […]