Multiaxes Turning On Juniper

Hi, been a while since last post, i never stopped turning and still gathering different wood species all around as well, in fact
i collected a lot of wood, some different kind of prunus, Cercis siliquastrum again too, some olivewood from Center italy, and some new species ready to be worked and identify.
 I had gleaned too much wood, placed anywhere in the lab...
Not Good work surrounded drowned by wood and dust...

By the way this is the result obtained from get into the processing of multi-axis turning. But...
First things first, i definetly have to thank Barbara Dill who have made a great video shared on youtube in which she explain perfectly first steps of multiaxes woodturning. This piece is dedicated to her, and her will to share knowledge to everybody. I'd like to remember from whom i took from..

 

 This is a small.... 15 x 6 it's been turned on Four axis, one ax is in the center, and the other three are 120° from each other 2 cm distant from the center one. Wood is Juniper and it's wonderfull. The smell all around made me work without using respirator stuff antidust...yeah..
 Juniper all life along.















Then i got lucky becouse i walk just the right time the right place where some Yew been clean for good. Incredible stuff, small branches around 6-7 cm diameter old more than 50 years! Then some hundread years pieces of yew showed on my eyes, just 10 cm diameter...so old...so tenacious would be....This wood have to get justice...i have to think well what doing with it...
after a few attempts on hackberry I decided to work on those fancy yew wood...

  First one. 12 cm 5 cm

  II. 9.5 cm 5.5 cm

                   III. 13 cm 5.5cm

  IV. 18cm 5cm

  V. My favorite. Amazing wood.

                                                                       "a Gang"

                                                better: "The Yew Band" feat Juniper MC Wood

ain't that something

Cheers

Paolo

Woodturner Rendezvous in Viterbo

On days 4 & 5 October there was a meeting between Turners in Viterbo,
at Mala Spina School....http://www.scuoladellegno.it/it/chi-siamo/
where men named Giacomo and Vasco were hosts of a mass of Gipsy Turners from all Italy..
With AIATL, Giacomo and Vasco organized a great event with the participation of distributors of equipment for turning, wivamac lathe, Vicmarc lathe,
and related turners who performed live demonstrations:
i had really a pleasure of knowing Jackie Ferla Tuiniuijk from Belgium
www.houtdraaier.be.
Distributor of fine woods were there too, and i got some pau violetto having in mind some jewelry projects and a piece of macassar ebony destinated on a pen project..
Two days flew away in a istant,
a lot of talkin' and turning, a fun every single moment,
part of a tribe of eternal youth,
....
like him, the Captain Vittorio:

I'm a member of AIATL, italian association of woodturner.
And on sunday morning Roberto Cecconello, the president had a speech,
which dealt with topics such as creating their own roots,
because in Italy the art of turning wood is a new matter,
he talked about a way to perform our own Art through observation of what is around us and reworking all this putting your own personal touch, which is made of our personal history and feeling.




Thanks to a Lady names Kitty Pierart was installed an exhibition of the works of the members of the association AIATL.

 Michelangelo

 Pietro, Michele Monaci, Michelangelo

 Michele Monaci



 Roberto Cecconello

 Richard Coter

 Giacomo Malaspina


Now some random pictures there and here...





     here while i'm tring have a sandblasted surfice effect by using a steel weel brush mounted on a drill.









 

Cheers

Paolo

digging box Elder

It's been long since my last post,
i had working pick pear fruits down from trees,
and that took me away from turning...
i made this box Elder pieces this summer,
trying new forms...

cm 30 x 22 d.

 

 

Buffed with just Carnauba wax



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Cm 18 x 15 D. Buffed with Carnauba Wax

 

Cm 24 x 18 D. 

Cm 15 x 19 D.

Cm 19 x 16 D. 

and One bowl 

Cm 37 x 11 h.

Hope come back soon with more regularity

Cheers

Paolo