Usually I just manage to turn good wood into firewood on the lathe.
This time round I thought i’d try and do the opposite. So I bought one of those bags of firewood that you see in the supermarket.
It is silver birch, and as long as you keep it dry it does turn rather nicely.
One of the larger quarter logs was chucked up between centres and roughed out to a cylinder with a roughing gouge.
Then I used a small spindle gouge to put a shape to it – I was after a finger groove effect.
Then I parted them off with a diamond parting tool.
They were manually drilled with a forstner bit after being sanded through the grits and polished with beeswax.
I was quite surprised at how nice the beech came out as for firewood my hopes were not too high. It just goes to show that care and attention brings out beauty in most things.