making a wooden bowl on a pole lathe

[robin wood]

Nice slide show done by Jon Henley of the Guardian showing me making bowls by foot power.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/audioslideshow/2009/dec/09/robin-wood-pole-lathe

 

[Laughoutlouder]

Very nice Robin!

 

[John Fenna]

A good article! Some good photos too

 

[dogwood]

Robin, that's just great and I love understanding more about how you turn.

Have you any plans on writing a book about these skills? I know I'd love to buy a copy if you do.

 

[MattF]

Very good I enjoyed the article

Matt

 

[Whittler Kev]

Nicely done

 

[woods_man]

Cool!

peter..

 

[Thijzzz]

Great slideshow, lovely to look at. the other articles are nice too!

 

[Cobweb]

Nice soundslides show there, it's good to see it being taken seriously by 'the establishment'

Well done Robin, hope they paid you

 

[Melonfish]

Really enjoyed that alot, lovely to see how you make those bowls. i did see a similar setup to your lathe once at my local moss, they had a crafts show on a couple of years ago and a chap had basically the same setup for his lath and was turning things like chair legs etc. cracking stuff, you'll have to get a book or something written for sure (if you have the time!)

 

[robin wood]

Really enjoyed that alot, lovely to see how you make those bowls. i did see a similar setup to your lathe once at my local moss, they had a crafts show on a couple of years ago and a chap had basically the same setup for his lath and was turning things like chair legs etc. cracking stuff, you'll have to get a book or something written for sure (if you have the time!)

There are lots of folk using pole lathes to make chair legs and courses where you can learn in a couple of days, bowls are a bit more of a challenge. I did a book a few years ago detailing the history of the craft from iron age times through Viking period, medieval and bowls from the Mary Rose etc. http://www.robin-wood.co.uk/book.htm

 

[mr dazzler]

Nice soundslides show there, it's good to see it being taken seriously by 'the establishment'

Well the gaurdian did call it disapearing acts, not emerging dynamic creative new talent..... Mind Robin pops up everywhere you could hardly say he was disapearing

 

[Black Sheep]

Really great slide show and fascinating work

Richard