All things wood

I had the great pleasure of spending some time today with Patrick, mechanical mastermind, arboreal expert & master woodturner. We chopped up a few trees and he gave me the beginners guide to woodturning, something I shall be tackling over the summer. There are some people, like Patrick, who know loads of stuff .... what would we ever do without them?

Patrick is pictured here with one of his lathes, a union graduate short bed for turning bowls with a rather fancy vacuum chuck. For those who have no idea what these things are ...... neither did I till earlier today.