TurnLincs

This Purpleheart box is 80mm tall and 70mm in diameter. It has a staggered basket weave pattern created using a 24 bump rosette and a 3mm wide slotting cutter. The lid has a flower pattern cut with a 1.2mm endmill and the pattern is then filed with gold epoxy and it has a 5mm CZ stone in the centre. The underside of the lid has an Arch 7 pattern on it cut with a 0.8mm endmill. The box is finished with 3 coats of gloss lacquer. It was made as a birthday present for a friend.

This box is made from Beech with a Purpleheart lid that has a Greenheart finial and it is 125mm tall overall and 70mm in diameter. The fluting was made using a universal cutting frame and a 20 bump rosette. The lid has a flower pattern from a D12 rosette cut using an drilling frame with a 1mm endmill. Finished with 3 coats of spray gloss lacquer.

This box is made from Beech and has an inset Purpleheart lid it is the the shape of a cupcake. It has 5 rows of a basket weave pattern cut with a 24 bump rosette and a 3mm wide slotting cutter. The box is 70mm tall and 70mm in diameter. The knob in the lid has a 3mm CZ white stone in the centre. The box is finished with 3 coats of gloss spray lacquer.

This is my latest ornamental turning. A shallow slightly spalted Boxwood box 80mm in diameter and 50mm tall. The box was conventionally turned and then decorated on my Rose Engine lathe. The basket weave pattern was made using a 24W rosette with a 4mm slotting cutter in a drilling frame. The lid has separately turned a 40mm diameter Black Walnut flower cut using a Lotus 8 rosette using a 1 mm end mill in a drilling frame for the outer shape and then a universal cutting frame and fly cutter to carve the pattern into the top face. The underside of the lid is decorated with an Arch 5 rosette using a drilling frame and a 1.2mm end mill, the pattern is phased to get the alternating pattern, and has a white CZ stone in the centre. Finished with 3 coats of spray gloss lacquer.

This box is made from a piece of Bocote and has a finial made from African Blackwood and a base from dyed Sycamore. This box stands 120mm tall and 85mm in diameter and is finished in satin lacquer. The shape was turned using a 4 bump rosette on my rose engine lathe. It was a long process and end to end this box took about 16 hours to make. It was certainly and interesting type of box to make. It took as long to hollow the centre as it did to to create the outside shape. Getting the grain pattern alignment between the top and the base, which were turned separately, added to the challenge.

The underside of the lid was embellished with an F5 rosette and a 0.8 mm end mill cutter and has a small white CZ stone in the centre.

This box is made from a new wood to me Knob Thorn, it is a very hard dense wood that was dusty to turn and had some interlocking grain which was a challenge to get smooth prior to enhancing on the Rose Engine. This box is 50mm tall and 60mm in diameter the box weave pattern on the outside was cut using an 18 bump rosette that was phased and was cut using a 3mm wide slotting cutter. The top of the lid was cut using a Tudor Rose rosette and the universal cutting frame and it is fitted with a Lilac coloured CZ stone in the centre. The underside of the lid was decorated using an Ice Flower rosette cut using a 0.8mm end mill cutter in a drilling frame with a green CZ stone in the centre. The box was then finished with 3 coats of spray lacquer.

I made this small ring box for a friend. It is made from Mopane and is 40mm in diameter and 50mm tall and finished in gloss lacquer. It has a white CZ stone in the top of the lid and a red CZ stone inside the lid. The basket weave pattern was cut using a 3mm wide cutter and an 18 bump rosette. The lid was decorated with a 0.8mm end mill cutter on a drilling frame and an Arch 7 rosette. The underside of the lid was decorated using a 0.8mm end mill cutter on a drilling frame and an F5 rosette.

Last week Emma Cook (The Tiny Turner) was the demonstrator at my woodturning club (Lincolnshire Association of Woodturners). For the first part of the demonstration she made a pseudo hollowform from a piece of spalted beech. This is basically turned like a box and instead of the lid being proud it is inset into the body as a thin disk with a hole and shoulder in the centre. This lid is a tight fit but it is glued in place so it gives the appearance of being made from one piece of wood.

I decided to have a go at making one of these out of a piece of Mopane and then doing some decoration on it using my Rose Engine lathe. The hollowform is 90mm tall, 65mm in diameter and finished with 2 coats of gloss lacquer. The basket weave pattern on the side was made with a 3mm wide cutter and a 24 bump rosette. The rosette was phased only one third instead of the usual half to give a different pattern. This was an experiment and I like the resulting pattern.

The top of the hollowform was decorated using a 12 bump rosette and a 1.2mm end mill cutter. The light coloured stripe in the lid is the side of a small branch which shows as a knot in the side of the hollowform in the photo of the side. It was an interesting turning

This box was an interesting one for me. I bought a piece of very dark hardwood at my woodturning club recently and as it was dark and very dense I thought it would be good for using for enhancing on my Rose Engine lathe. It was marked up as Mexican Rosewood (which I later found to be most commonly known as Bocote). The label on it was from a company that had closed down at least 15 years ago and so it had been in store somewhere for a long time.

Once I started to turn it I found that it was very dry and dusty and the beautiful grain started to show. As a result it was too nice to go on the Rose Engine and the pattern would likely have been hidden in the attractive grain. Rather than just making it flat topped I used the tenon to turn into a small flat button for the lid which I put one of my white CZ stones in. Finished in lacquer and it is 70mm in diameter and 50mm tall.