AWGB Woodturning Forum

The Forest of Dean Woodturners is celebrating its 21st anniversary by hosting a couple of all day demos.

On September 8th Chris Parker is doing a texture/colour demo

On October 12th Rolly Munro is doing a demo

More info and ticket booking on the FOD club website

Thank you for your reply’s. Not sure about the reliability of DVR lathes. I’m looking for something like a woodfast c 1000 with variable speed. If there’s anything like that out there. I know it’s a bit specific but I’m sure you get the idea 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Hi
How much would the record green stand cost. I’m hoping you will sell separately as have a record green large that it matches. It would not be detrimental selling large separately I’d think as is different make. I could collect this weekend - I suspect your father has been a real handyman with the tools he has and I’m looking to be so as I approach retirement.

Let me know
Kindest regards
David

Thanks!  And mulberry wood is bright yellow and I do have some from a tree cut by a family  neighbour, albeit not enough for bananas I think.  And the yellow colour darkens fairly quickly to orange on exposure (which I suppose bananas do too!).

Not original or that remarkable but a bit of fun for a club (Tudor Rose) competition for 'a piece of fruit' (it did win a prize!).

For anyone who has not seen this the process is to turn a toroid (from beech in this case) with the appropriate cross section which is then cut radially into 3, of which this is one segment.  Then use a jig to hold the piece on a chuck to turn the ends.  This gives tapered but round cross section ends (unlike an actual banana where the 4/5 sided section persists towards the ends) so some further shaping is needed - in my case using a small diameter (50mm) drum sander mounted on the lathe.  Note that the drum sander is also useful to smooth the inevitable rough inner edge on the detached toroid.