First Segmented Turning

Dewayne, your segmented turnings are turning out great. Cool top you made. I think your giving me the motivation I need to get started on one. If I stop collecting logs for a while I’ll find the time.

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

You make it look so easy, nicely done with beautiful wood contrast

-- Stelios L.A. Stavrinides: - I am not so rich to buy cheap tools, but... necessity is the mother of inventions !!!

Nice job Dewayne like the wood combination really like the lid contrast of colors on it.

-- Bill, Quitman, Georgia

Very nice first time segmented turning…. you definitely have to be happy with that….well done.

-- Dave.......If at first you don’t succeed redefine success....

Looken’ good

-- A childs smile is payment enough.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Dave when you do get started it will hook you just like turning if you aren’t careful. I found a site that showed how to set up the bowls on graph paper and get the measurements and it kinda opened it up for me. I would look at the diff bowls and wonder how they figured how to cut them out but it showed me how. I probably won’t be doing the intricate designs that some do but I foresee using diff woods and simple patterns for the time being.

At this point in time I don’t have a lot of different kinds of wood on hand so mine will be simple for now.

-- Dewayne in Bainbridge, Ga. - - No one can make you mad. Only you decide when you get mad - -

Hey Dewayne , your right. I think I’m hooked already on these and haven’t done one yet. And yes, I have been looking at different sites for charts, ideas, etc. As much as I like all kinds of woodworking I like the outdoors just as much. I stick with simple things in the summer and go for the challenges in the winter unless we need something important like a t.p. rack .haha Thanks for the tip, maybe it will be sooner than later.

-- Dave, Downers Grove, Il. -------- When you run out of ideas, start building your dreams.

Good luck with your endeavors.

I need to gather some more logs. I have a friend that clears land and he has told me I could get wood from where he is werking. Kinda getting real serious about my shop now so a lot going on. I’ve been getting prices for concrete and wood trying to decide weather to go with concrete floor or wood floor. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Haaa Haaa

-- Dewayne in Bainbridge, Ga. - - No one can make you mad. Only you decide when you get mad - -