Category: Projects
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Project Leoht – Ultra Low Mass Turntable
‘Leoht’ – derived from the old English word for ‘light’. In this case not of the optical kind but an object with significantly reduced mass.
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Miniature Radiogram Replica
I was asked to have a look at a mid-century Murphy 8108 radiogram. It comprised a chassis similar to a Bush SRG1041 and a Garrard 6-300 automatic record changer, and was built in 1970.
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Clipper – Clipboard Text Editor for Mac
Clipper is a little app that displays the text currently in your mac’s clipboard and allows you to edit it and copy the results back to the clipboard. Produced mainly to patch a whole in Voiceover accessibility but it has its uses in other areas too.
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Bowls In Ash, Iroko, Lime & African Walnut
As the title says, more bowls in Ash, Iroko, Lime and African Walnut. The African Walnut in particular is an interesting wood to turn.
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Hifi Stereo Cabinet With Turntable Lid
I recently decided to go on a trip down memory lane and rebuild the hi-fi system that really helped to kickstart my love for audio. It was my first ‘new’ separates system – a major upgrade on the boomboxes and midi systems I’d had up until that point, and a departure from the vintage hi-fi…
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5 Bowls. Cherry, Sycamore, Chestnut & Iroko
The bowls keep on coming. Many of these are cut from smaller blanks with the exception of the Iroko, probably my largest bowl yet.
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Cherry Box
Posted In ProjectsFinally found a use for the small leftovers from Project Cherry. I gifted a commemorative CD set to a friend and wanted to make a box for them.
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A big batch of wands from leftover Sapele
This was a batch of wands created to raise money for a local charity, around 60 in total. They were produced from offcuts of Sapele reclaimed from a recycled front door and frame.
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Oak Bowl
This blank was a lot bigger than I started, but a few incidents meant I had to turn it a few times to get the resultant project which is more of a snack dish than a bowl. I don’t particularly enjoy turning oak as I haven’t yet found a way to successfully turn it without…
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Tulip bowl version 2
The very first bowl I turned was in Tulipwood. When I started out I was hesitant to try a thin rim at risk of ruining the project.
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African Walnut Bowl
African Walnut (Lovoa trichilioides) grows in West Tropical Africa from a relatively small tree, standing on average 30-46 m tall with a trunk diameter of 0.6-1.
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Lime Wood Bowl
The Lime (Latin Tilia) tree, also known as Linden and (most commonly in the United States) Basswood, can reach a height of 40 metres and has a typical trunk diameter between one and two metres. The Lime wood species is unrelated to the citrus fruit.
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Idigbo Bowl
This bowl was turned from an Idigbo blank. I’d never heard of Idigbo (Terminalia ivorensis) which hails from west Africa and is commonly used in joinery due to its durability and stability, and limited moisture movement.
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My First Turned Bowl (Tulipwood)
Described as “the greenish yellowish wood yielded from the Tulip tree found on the eastern side of North America and also in some parts of China”. (Reference Wikipedia).
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Roasted Poplar guitars
I had a request to build a guitar for gigging that wouldn’t be as maintenance-free as possible. While guitars are reliable instruments, they do need a certain amount of upkeep and this is especially so on the road.