April at last

Before I get onto talking about April and the events of March, I must tell you about what Mrs M has just been up to.  She had to search in the cupboard under the bathroom hand-basin and discovered toiletries that had a use-by date from before we moved some ten years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So where is Spring?,  does anybody out there know?????

Produced a super bowl for Mrs M..  It was turned from spalted beech, this is where a fungus causes thin slivers of rot in the tree and at the same time produced a super pattern in the wood, as can be seen by this photo:

Part of the problem with spalted beech is the hardness of the wood varies according to the amount of rot, so its easy to cause depressions in the wood.  However what is really special about the bowl is, and this is not that apparent from the photo, is the underturned lip, which goes in some 2 to 3 cms .  I'll try to post a better image in the near future.

The second photo is of Orchard the sheep, (named after where I have been taught wood-turning).  He was made from birch and african blackwood.

Nice to see Argyle are winning some matches, just hope they can keep it up and therefore stay up.  

Mrs M has recently acquired a Schacht Matchless Spinning Wheel.  Features lovely woodwork, jealous!!!

Getting Yate Rocks Tramway ready for an exhibition soon, then its time for the garden and caravan.

Thats all for now folks ....