ornamental turning

Used my Nova Ornamental Turner to create the ornament body and detail on the drop spindle. Just had an idea I was playing with last night while my student worked on her own turning. Really pleased overall. I believe the body is stabilized cottonwood and I know the cap and drop spindle are...

This latest box of mine is one I made at a recent demonstration for the West Suffolk Woodturning Club. It is made from Boxwood and is 65mm tall and 48mm in diameter. The basket weave pattern is 3mm wide and made using an 18 bump rosette. The top is decorated with an Arch 7 rosette and has a red...

I made this box for the monthly challenge on WoodTurningZoom, the theme was “something for someone else so an item made to make someone smile it must be made for someone and given to them as a gift”. I made this box for Ruth Bray, the wife of a friend, I gave a similar box to Steve Kearvell for...

This small Boxwood box is 50mm tall and 50mm in diameter. The basket weave pattern was made using a router cutter 3mm wide on my Rose Engine lathe. The lid both inside and outside has a CZ stone set in it. The top was decorated using a universal cutting frame mounted above centre to give a...

This box is made from a piece of Satinwood given to me recently by a friend to see if it was suitable for ornamental turning. I am pleased with the way that it came out with no tear out using both a drilling frame and a cutting frame on my Rose Engine lathe. It is 65mm tall and 47mm in diameter...

This small box 60mm tall 40mm in diameter was decorated on my Rose Engine lathe. The wood is unknown by me but was quite dense so it took the pattern well. The top has a white CZ inserted in the centre of the pattern. The inside of the lid is also decorated and has a blue CZ stone in the centre...

This is a small birch box with a walnut knob. It was initially turned on the wood lathe, then digitized to a form suitable for use in COrnLathe. This is an Ornamental Turning design program by Bill Ooms. The GCode was subsequently used to cut the basketweave pattern on a metal lathe adapted for...

Small birch box turned on the wood lathe, then digitized to a form suitable for use in COrnLathe. This is an Ornamental Turning design program by Bill Ooms. The pattern was created and subsequently cut with a small metal lathe adapted for OT

Bottom of a blackwood box ornamented with the GP-3 rosette

African blackwood box with 6-pointed scalloped star turned on MDF rose engine

Box elder vessel with Padauk and Maple finial

Box elder vessel with Padauk finial

Walnut vessel with Maple & Bloodwood finial

The spiral support has 2 outside spirals, one square (4mm x 4mm) and one rectangular (7mm x 4mm) with a twisted spiral at the center. The support is hard maple dyed, 22mm in diameter and 100mm high and the base is natural hard maple.

Ornamental Turners, International is a virtual AAW chapter (website: http://ornamentalturners.com/). @RichColvin, OTI President, contacted the AAW Executive Director, Phil McDonald, and the AAW Forum Administrators with a request to migrate the OTI forum into the AAW Forum. Phil saw this move...

Ornamental turned box made on the rose engine lathe. Size is 3" in diameter x 4 &1/2" tall. Box is made of Honduras Rosewood, African Blackwood & Pink Ivory wood.

Ornamental turned box made on the rose engine lathe. Size is 3" in diameter x 4 &1/4" tall. Box is made of Mopane wood, African Blackwood, Betel Nut & Pink Ivory wood.

This is a different view of the lid.

This is a collaboration piece. Bob Dadik made the segmented base from maple, and Rich Colvin made the ornamentally turned top using Padauk on the MDF Rose Engine Lathe 2.0.

Spinning tops made of Amboyna Burl, African Blackwood, Tagua & Betel Nuts set on a Maple Burl Base. Inspiration for this piece was from the movie Star Wars IV A new Hope. The main stand holds 3 spinning tops on their individual stands. Decorations on their stands were done on the rose engine lathe.