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ornamental turning

  1. colinsp

    Boxwood demo box

    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...
  2. Ornamental boxwood box as a gift

    Ornamental boxwood box as a gift

    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...
  3. Boxwood box

    Boxwood box

    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...
  4. Satinwood ornamental box

    Satinwood ornamental box

    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...
  5. Small ornamental Box

    Small ornamental Box

    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...
  6. Birch Box with basketweave pattern

    Birch Box with basketweave pattern

    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...
  7. Birch box with walnut accent

    Birch box with walnut accent

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

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

    Bottom of a blackwood box ornamented with the GP-3 rosette
  9. African blackwood box with 6-pointed scalloped star turned on MDF rose engine

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

    African blackwood box with 6-pointed scalloped star turned on MDF rose engine
  10. Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Box elder vessel with Padauk and Maple finial
  11. Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Box elder vessel with Padauk finial
  12. Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Walnut vessel with Maple & Bloodwood finial
  13. Boule de Canton Support

    Boule de Canton Support

    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.
  14. Bill Boehme

    Welcome, Ornamental Turners International

    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...
  15. Ornamental Honduras Rosewood Box

    Ornamental Honduras Rosewood Box

    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.
  16. Ornamental Mopane Wood Box

    Ornamental Mopane Wood Box

    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.
  17. Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece - Lid

    Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece - Lid

    This is a different view of the lid.
  18. Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece

    Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece

    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.
  19. Spinning Tops on Tatooine III

    Spinning Tops on Tatooine III

    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.
  20. Christmas Tree Ornaments

    Christmas Tree Ornaments

    Rose engine turned designs on African Blackwood. Then filled with paint and wiped clean to only show the design cut that was cut..
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