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Offline John. B

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Greetings from a newby
« on: May 12, 2010, 09:55:47 AM »
greetings to you all madmodders,

I'm a retired train operator from Essex, with interests in all things turning.

Although I will admit to mainly woodturning I have one of these, with, which hopefully on this forum I can learn to make bigger things than I do at present.
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At the moment I make tooling or little things for the lathe.

However these are a couple of things I've done on my wood lathe recently.

 



 

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Offline spuddevans

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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 12:20:08 PM »
Hi there John :wave: Welcome to madmodder.

I too came from a background of turning the brown stuff, but it's a whole different kettle of fish on a metal lathe, less feel more precision ( in my case anyway )


Glad to have you with us, post up some pics of your exploits, we like pics as  :worthless:  :D


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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 01:10:21 PM »
Welcome to the collective John.  :borg:

Hey it doesn't matter what medium you work with, it's all excepted here.  :thumbup:

You can always learn something when you cross over into another hobby or medium such as wood turning.  :smart:

So, let's see some of them nice wood turnings.  :clap:

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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2010, 05:40:43 PM »
Thanks Gents for the welcome,



I realise that some threads  :worthless:

so here are another one or two.







The napkin rings are a gift for a friends bed and breakfast  house,

the others are a small trophy for one of my golf club competitions, and the storks are for the local childrens school. It's their school logo.


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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2010, 06:52:00 PM »
Love 'em, John - particularly the flowing curves on the mortarboard and the storks  :thumbup:

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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2010, 08:49:28 PM »
Hi John!  :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

That's some nice work you have there. Whatcha looking to make with the metal lathe?

Train operator eh? Very nice... I got a soft spot for trains.

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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2010, 05:44:52 AM »
Thanks gents,

Eric,

I too still have a soft spot for trains, (big ones) despit being retired these last 5 years.

A couple weeks ago My wife and I travelled to Berlin Germany, from London and back again a week later by train.

London to Brussels by Eurostar, high speed  German ICE train Brussels to Koln, then second ICE train Koln to Berlin.

It's quite something to sit at dinner, when the the world the other side of the window is going by at 175 MPH.

With the metal lathe I hope to make a ball turning jig.

John. B
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Re: Greetings from a newby
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2010, 08:00:58 AM »
Ecellent work on those wooden projects. :thumbup:

Glad you joined. Looks like you shouldn't have any problems with material made out of metal.

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