good morning

[francesco dibari]

Good morning everyone, I write from Italy and I apologize for my bad English, I wanted this forum to learn this beautiful art that fascinates me a long time, I started turning wood for about seven months, all I can do (very little) I learned in the forums and watching videos on youtube, but now I feel that I need to start a course to begin learning something truly better, so I decided to enroll early in a course at the Turning school which is near Venice (where I live) in Verona, from the Master Claude Arragon, these are photos of some of my work, good chips at all ..!! ..

"mogano sipo" plate unique piece (21,65" ) 55 cm
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Mogano4.jpg

little bowl linden wood
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Raditi4.jpg

little plate spalted oak
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Spal4.jpg

olive jar
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Vasone8.jpg
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Vasone7.jpg

small bowl in olive
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Ulivo9.jpg
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt14/francesco64_2009/Ulivo14.jpg

[Pete Jordan]

Welcome Francesco!

You show much talent and good luck with your teacher!

[Ken Hill]

Holy Cow!! Those are very nice indeed! I really like the first plate and the olive jar!

[Steve Vaughan]

That's very, very nice! Love your woods, colors and grain. Welcome aboard!

[charlie knighton]

Hi, we must have a large time differance but turning minds minds are turning minds, enjoy

[Bernie Weishapl]

Welcome Francesco! Those are some really nice turnings.

[Jim Burr]

Buongiorno!! And why did you need lessons? Tell us about what kind of equipment you have over there and keep posting pictures!!!

[Richard Madden]

Welcome, Francesco. You do some beautiful work! Thanks for showing.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Francesco - Welcome to the Creek!

I enjoyed seeing your turnings and really like the large platter!

If you are able to take lessons from Claude Arragon - then you are in good hands! Claude stops in here every once in a while and treats us with his artwork! Amazing turner! Have fun with your lessons!

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

[francesco dibari]

thanks everyone, I need to go to school because I learn better technique, if you play an instrument and you studied music, you play better, as equipment used for turning gouges Hamlet and Sorby, little brother use to dig deep to hamlet, I have a lathe Vicmarc VL300 with VM100 and VM120 for large pieces, a small band saw, a small thickness planer, a JET dust extractor, and a good amount of wood for the winter, since my work in Winter is quiet, I would like to purchase a grader to test the segmented, but I'm not sure I have the patience, thanks again to all ... :):)

[francesco dibari]

... :) .. I'm lucky to live to 150 miles from the school of Master Claude, I will make one of his classes, sorry for the bad English, I help with google ... :(

[Ted Calver]

Welcome Francesco...Abbiamo vissuto a Vicenza per 7 anni. Hope to see more of your work soon.

[John Keeton]

What a treat to have you join us, Francesco!! Some very nice work - especially the bowl from olive and air!!:D

[David E Keller]

Welcome! I hope your lessons go well, and I look forward to seeing your upcoming turnings.

[francesco dibari]

... TED.. seven years away from their homeland are so many ... hope you had a good feeling ... ;)
Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome ... but now I go to sleep because here are the three PM ... the time zone does not forgive .. ah ah ... :D

[Baxter Smith]

Welcome! Great work!

[gary Zimmel]

Welcome to the Creek Francesco.
Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[Doug W Swanson]

Welcome!

Your pieces are very nice! You should be very proud of them!

[Ray Bell]

Welcome Francesco. You do very nice work, and you get to do it in beautiful surroundings.

[Dan Hintz]

That olive bowl is a very unique piece... I never thought having so much open space would allow a bowl to remain a bowl, but it pulls it off nicely.



On a side note, I'm always amused by non-native English speakers who apologize for their "poor" English... they usually speak English better than 50% of the 'merikans I run into! Our school system is going to pot (Did that English teacher actually just tell a student "You've got..." was proper?!)

[Rasmus Petersen]

Welcome to the Creek :) fellow Eurpoean ... Im from Denmark.

Nice work by the way keep it up.

[Rob Cunningham]

Welcome to the Creek Francesco. Your work is beautiful.

[Charlie Reals]

Welcome Francesco, the olive jar is drop dead gorgeous!!

[bob svoboda]

Welcome to the creek. Don't worry about your English...it's a whole lot better than my Italian :D: I really like your turnings and am jealous of your access to Olive. Keep the posts coming!

[Aaron Wingert]

Beautiful turnings! Is olive wood plentiful in your area? If we had olive wood near Kansas, I think that is all I would turn!