Sumac & Beech

[Chas Jones]

Long time since I uploaded anything but still quite active on the turning front.
There's a lot more about this years efforts on the UKW Forum

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Hey Chas, glad to see you pop up with some new work! Always fun to see what sorts of things you've been turning.

Quite a fun collection on the UKW forum! I quite like the form you achieved on the little pot here (not to diminish the rest, but this one was especially fun).
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/post1273881.html#p1273881

 

[Dave Hoskins]

Your design is quite nice and that is some gorgeous wood. Really good work. Glad you popped in again. Out of curiosity, with me not knowing the lay of the land over there, there was a turner in the Worksop area by the name of Les Taylor. Did you by any chance know him?

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

I was just thinking about you a few days ago, Chas. Glad to see you drop in to show us some of your (very nice) work.

 

[Chas Jones]

Out of curiosity, with me not knowing the lay of the land over there, there was a turner in the Worksop area by the name of Les Taylor. Did you by any chance know him?

Sorry Dave, have no knowledge of the turner.

 

[Ted Calver]

Interesting combination of woods, Chas. Great to see you here again. Is that the Staghorn sumac native to north America, introduced to the UK in the 1600's? We had a big grove of them in our yard and as a kid we used them as jungle gym. Not a particularly hard wood. Very nice looking pot.

 

[Paul Douglass]

Very beautiful combination of wood well turned.

 

[Chas Jones]

Is that the Staghorn sumac native to north America,..

Yes that's the species, spreads like wildfire if given half a chance, and as you say not exactly a robust wood when dried, hence why I try to use it as a 'highlight' wood with something more durable to show off its figuring.

 

[Chas Jones]

Thanks for the interest folks, not enough hours in the day to regularly follow up on every forum I'm afraid but I do look in from time to time.