We are having our annual woodturner's club picnic this Saturday.  I didn't go to the last one because I was fairly new to turning, they want each turner that attends the picnic to bring a turning for the spouses' raffle, and I didn't have enough confidence in my skills to bring something.  The wives, spouses, or others get a raffle ticket whose sole purpose is to determine the order in which they get to pick out a turning and take it home.  No money exchanges hands, all just for fun.  These are the items I made for this year's picnic, which, BTW, I got asked to organize.  Not having attended last year's picnic, and being a new member of the club, I am a little nervous about organizing this year's picnic, but we will see how things turn out.  Anyway, these are my items, all turned from poplar procured by our club president, and finished with three coats of 2 pound cut garnet shellac and 2 coats of spray lacquer.  A mortar and pestle, and two styles of rolling pins.  Thanks for looking.

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 20187 yr by PostalTom
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Looks mighty nice to me!

 

I love the rolling pins!

Well done.  Some lucky spouses at the picnic for sure.

Look good from here Tom. Nice work.

 

Steve

Very nice, someone is going to go home with a beautiful prize.

Thanks for the compliments guys.  Hearing that from those who are already accomplished woodturners is really encouraging.  I forgot to mention that except for some cuts with a HF parting tool, (sorry, Stick), everything else was done with Easy Wood Tools.  Up to now I have been using a combination of EWT and traditional gouges and chisels, but this time I wanted to do the entire projects with EWT as much as possible.  Thanks again.

Good looking items you did and a good job finishing too.

GO Harbor Freight!!

Herb

2 hours ago, PostalTom said:

"everything else was done with Easy Wood Tools.  Up to now I have been using a combination of EWT and traditional gouges and chisels, but this time I wanted to do the entire projects with EWT as much as possible.  Thanks again.

Somehow, now these projects look even more beautiful to me!