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Looks good!
Is this black pepper this time or just sticking with the white pepper?
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For the time being I’m sticking with white pepper.
This is a smaller pie this time done in a spring tin.
I will try a variation once I’m happy with these ones..
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Having spent quite a while improving my home-made lathe, I thought it would be good to give it a test run to prove I hadn't done anything wrong. It turned out I had, but only in that I hadn't tightened up the pair of nuts that set the preload on the bearings, so it turned smoothly for a while and then started to wobble a little 
. Easily sorted.
Anyway with it running nicely, I started by a quick play (with no particular purpose) with a couple of bits of walnut:
The one at the back was turned with a spindle gouge; the one at the front with two skew chisels. I found it really pleasing that all the bowl making practice last year had obviously paid off: I found it much much easier to turn those spindles than other similar things I tried before.
While I was lathing, I thought I'd turn a few bowls to convince myself I hadn't forgotten how to do it. Again it all went very smoothly:
The biggest one is Brown Oak, the middle one Sycamore and the small one Lignum Vitae (turned out of a bowling ball that had a great big chunk taken out of it so I didn't think it would be much use for anything else). All finished with hard wax oil.
The lathe isn't looking quite as neat and tidy any more
. Easily sorted.Anyway with it running nicely, I started by a quick play (with no particular purpose) with a couple of bits of walnut:
The one at the back was turned with a spindle gouge; the one at the front with two skew chisels. I found it really pleasing that all the bowl making practice last year had obviously paid off: I found it much much easier to turn those spindles than other similar things I tried before.
While I was lathing, I thought I'd turn a few bowls to convince myself I hadn't forgotten how to do it. Again it all went very smoothly:
The biggest one is Brown Oak, the middle one Sycamore and the small one Lignum Vitae (turned out of a bowling ball that had a great big chunk taken out of it so I didn't think it would be much use for anything else). All finished with hard wax oil.
The lathe isn't looking quite as neat and tidy any more
