Last week-end

[Claude Arragon]

This last week-end was then ending of the 2006 training programs at La Truciolara. Some of the attendees were beginners and they were hoping to turn a little something which might be an acceptable Xmas gift. They were able to turn fruits. Rather than turning the traditional ones I thought it would have been a good idea to turn them as bottle stoppers.
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Others were more advanced turners willing to discover some techniques of decentred wood turning. After some exercise they turned a 3 axes facetted base for the body of this owl. The head, a simple sphere mounted on a matrix enabled the turner to turn the eyes.
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[Karl Laustrup]

Those stoppers are really nice. What a novel idea. I like that owl too.

Bravo to the students.

Karl

[John Hart]

Wow...looks like a cool class! Those kind of fundamentals will go a long way into the future. :)

[David Fried]

Turning fruit is covered in one of my beginniners turning books but I never did it because I couldn't figure out what I would do with turned fruit. The
stoppers are a great idea! I bet it made the class fun too. I have to keep fruit in mind. (Not sure I could pass that class though:eek: )

[Claude Arragon]

As you say the fundamentals must be learned, but nobody ever said that we could not learn without fun.
I’m sorry I lost the picture. In an advance course I had the participant to carve a woman brest with nice tits and do some vibrations around the areola.
Hum, well, at the beginning I told them we were going to turn two vases on the same board, keeping the rectangular format. As you can imagine, after I demoed how to do it, the wittiest participants modified the vases… it was too obvious!
Yes we had fun, and we even opened a good bottle of champagne to celebrate Xmas and new year a bit in advance.

BEST WISHES TO ALL OF YOU
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[Bernie Weishapl]

Sounds like fun was had by all and learned something along the way. Cool class.