First Pictures

[Skip Spaulding]

birch 1.jpg

ne1.jpg

smallcherry2.jpg

large cherry1.jpg

Attachment 52589I have been turning with new lathe about a month now, blown up a couple of bowls. Bought a face shield! Having trouble with bowl gouge on inside of smaller bowls, find I have much better success with scrapers. I will make a jig for sharpening gouge and keep at it! Built the pvc photo booth you guys were discussing on line. I am going to try my first down load hope they go through! Afraid my pictures need as much work as my bowls! Thanks for all the help and inspiration

[Bernie Weishapl]

Those are some beautiful pieces. One month turning or just one month on the new lathe??? Nice work.

[John Hart]

Hey...those are all really nice Skip! A month?!!!!! Sheesh! Yer rockin and rollin'!

On your pics...they look pretty good too...though you might want to pull the camera back just a skosh. (you'll get more focus on the whole piece)

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice turnings! Looks like your photo booth works just fine!

[Jim Ketron]

Nice turnings!

[Gary DeWitt]

Camera work aint bad, actually. What color is your background (compare to a commonly known color)? If it's white or just a bit off white, you have a white balance problem, which may be easily correctable depending on the camera you use.
Oh yeah, nice turnings too.

[Joash Boyton]

Nice, allthough I like the last shape the best, great job

Joash

[Tom Sherman]

I agree with the group I like your work and wish my pictures were as good.

[Glenn Hodges]

Skip, you have an eye for form. This will lead you to a bright future in woodturning. I am amazed you have been turning for only such a short time, and I will be looking forward to more of your work. For the inside finishing I use a very sharp large skew from P&N. This is used very lightly as a scraper and it prevents tearout which gives me a smooth surface to start sanding.

[Ernie Nyvall]

Nice job Skip. I really like that last one. Pictures look good too.

[Paul Engle]

Nice work skip, I especally like the last one great form and rim treatment , 2nd would be the ne.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Excellent work .........especially for a beginning turner! Photos look great too!

[Curt Fuller]

Nice work Skip. Good looking shape and form on all of them.

As for the pics, I'm in the learning process with those too. If your camera has manual settings you can go into the White Balance section and tweek it around until you get rid of that yellowish color. Or play with some different lights that give off a Daylight type of light.

[Rex Guinn]

Skip your turnings look great! What kind of lathe did you get. I am looking maybe after the first of the year.
Rex