I have started my first multi coloured piece
A Jenny version of Jean Barrett's CD
It will be the first time I have done French Fans, hanging in and
tossing out, circular piece.
I am also (finally) getting back to making some more midland bobbins
and wishing I lived in a big town so that I had a teacher!!!! Trying
to work out how something is done from books is harder with the lathe
- the correct angles of holding the chisels is vital if I don't want
to sever a finger :) I bought a basic wood turning set of chisels and
am starting to think I should have looked around for smaller ones to
do the delicate bobbins with as I have too many bobbins snap on the
lathe with my being too heavy handed with cumbersome tools :( All
this is not counting the desire to learn how to make the spindle
effect, or the wire inlay, or the bead effect or make a mother and
babe or ... or.....
Still I am persevering and have come up with a style I tend to keep
to - thanks to Neil Keats in Australia for his double head concept -
now I just need to practice and practice getting the finished bobbin
off the lathe properly and find some more books on turning "small" stuff.
Jenny Brandis
Brandis Computing Services
PO Box 1525
Kununurra, WA 6743
Ph: 0408 811 398
fax: 08 9168 1002
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