GETTING FRUITY

[FUJI]

Too cold to paint, my tiny workshop offers a pleasanter place to follow another of my creative hobbies... ....since full retirement, I have studied the craft of wood turning...nothing too complicated, usually small gifts for family and friends. 
Small lidded boxes kept me happy and busy for a very long time, then a few Christmas ornaments.....but last week saw an opportunity to try something different .

A neighbour is having a loft conversion done,  the entails the carpenter’s removing large sections of the Victorian roof structure; throwing my way, already supply of beautiful century old, Russian Red Deal.... a beautiful red/gold pine as seasoned as it ever could be.

Im not a bowl turner, so I decided that lathe turned apples and pears might be fun...

it has proved to be a very enjoyable exercise.....except perhaps for the shavings clinging to my clothes when I go back indoors... 

I have discovered that the secret to a good retirement, is lots of hobbies and interests, combined with being able to offer the results as gifts.... 

Wonderful gifts at very little cost.....

There was, of course an outlay on lathe and tools, but that was twenty five years ago....

FUJI

 

[Kobione]

Interesting textures in the wood there Fuji, well done you, I like!

[FUJI]

Cheers !
 

Dee..... wood-grain has always pleased me, it can be a bit of a crime to paint over it sometimes... the roofing timber this fruit was turned from has a very interesting history.... Probably 150 or more years ago<it was growing in a Russian Forest... it was felled then processed there.... most Red Deal came to the U.K.  via the Russian Port of Archangel ....it made superb joinery and roofing timbers, because of its straight grain and strength....

I have given these small pieces a new lease of life after a hundred plus years as part of the roof of a neighbour’s house....so....circa 50-80 yrs growing....two years processing and transport... a hundred years in a roof....now a completely new start....

FUJI

[David995031]

Great work and wonderful to create them without having to chop down trees. 

[Denis]

Cyril, these are just absolutely beatiful, a wooden bowl of wooden fruit...brilliant

now a photograph of these as a piece in itself would be good...eh?...eh?

[KateW]

Beautiful. I can vouch for the fact that he makes lovely turned pens as well.

[Paul]

Wonderful work Fuji.

Paul.