whats the biggest blank you've turned?

[seventhdevil]

just curious to know what people who have large lathes have been brave enough to tackle.
if you have any please post pictures.

mine was a bit of walnut that was about 30"x6-7" and weighed 70kg.

what's yours?

[Bryan Milham]

A lump of Ash, about 24" x 15", not sure what it weighed. Was turned into nothing special, a lady wanted a giant mushroom for her garden.

[Steve Jones]

Sorry I haven't got pictures of the largest as it's only recently I have taken pictures of work.
The heaviest was green oak porch columns at 14" x 7'6" it took three of us to get it in the lathe. The biggest diameter I have turned was a 64" dia x 3" clock bezel in Oak.
I have a few pics of recent work so here are three, A 700mm x 1000mm tie base of which I have made lots they are painted red and for Debenhams displays, I couple of smaller porch columns at 200mm x 2300mm and a cornice for a corner wardrobe approx 1000mm x 75mm

[Eric Harvey]

biggest so far are two winged bowls,one 27" across and 5" tall in Elm the other 20" across and 7" tall in oak,only have pics of the Elm one,the other was sold so can`t take one of that,oh the table its on is 5`3"  across,cheers,

Eric..

[David Buskell]

Mine is a piece of monkey puzzle about 28ins long and 20ins diameter. iT was a while ago but do have a photo somewhere. Broke a chainsaw blade and axe blade on those pesky whirls!

[TWiG]

I think Steve Jones efforts will take a lot to beat !!!..........  Eric are you sure that is Elm ?,it looks very much like Robinia to me , but hard to be sure from pictures ..  Personally I quite regularly start with 20-30 kilo lumps that  are often trimmed close to shape with a chainsaw before getting to the lathe  hollow forms and bowls ...Terry ..

[GBF]

This is a large Wall plaque I did years ago it was 5' 3" over all.
One inch less than Steve's
At the time I never had a free standing leg so I used my graduate .

[julcle]

I like the way you have anchored the Nova to the ground. Did that chain come off the SS-Great Britain !

[rick_dobney]

Hello All

I've couple of contenders, the 'If I Had Wings' piece I've shared on the forum before, that was at its maximum 36" x 24". http://www.awgb.co.uk/awgbforum/index.php/topic,3454.0.html It wasn't particularly heavy and certainly didn't compare to GBF's Wall plaque (what RPM did you turn that at George?)

A couple of years ago I also turned a piece with Andrew Hall called 'Wall Heart', this was mounted on a back board and turned as a single piece, this was a similar size but much heavier.

It's good fun, challenging and something I'm looking to do more of this year.

All the best for 2016.

Cheers Rick