Tiger Lily Workshop

Fine turned wood objects for sale, plus hints, information about wood species and links. Wood turning is fun. For me these days even more fun than programming. I prefer to work with oddly shaped, distressed, and partly decayed wood. It's satisfying to make something interesting, artistic (well, sometimes artistic), or occasionally even useful from wood found by the side of the road, in a firewood pile, or in the odds and ends bin at the lumber yard. Scrounging works too: the sound of a chain saw will bring me running. Here I am apparently quite pleased at what I've just made. Actually making those particular pieces of sugar pine was very pleasing. I've generally found pine too soft to turn. The grain tends to tear rather than cutting smoothly.