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ornamental turning

  1. 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...
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

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

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

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

    Collaboration between Rich Colvin & Bruce Kerns

    Walnut vessel with Maple & Bloodwood finial
  8. 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.
  9. 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...
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece - Lid

    Ornamental & Segmented Turned Piece - Lid

    This is a different view of the lid.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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..
  16. Kalimantan Parlor Top

    Kalimantan Parlor Top

    Made of African Blackwood, Kalimantan Palm Nut, Tagua Nut, Pink Ivory Wood, Bloodwood & Cocus Wood. Decoration on the stand was done with a rose engine lathe.
  17. Tops x Seven

    Tops x Seven

    A group of spinning tops. Made of African Blackwood, Amboyna Burl, Maple Burl, Pink Ivory wood, Acrylics, Acetate, Tagua Nut & Betel Nut. Some have stand decorated on the Rose Engine Lathe. 2.5" to 5" tall. I find a special joy in turning spinning tops, perhaps because my philosophy is that play...
  18. 3 Bread Lames

    3 Bread Lames

    Bread Lames made of African Blackwood, Tagua Nut, Betel Nut & Pink Ivory wood. Decorated on a rose engine lathe. Two views, one with the scoring blades extended, and the other with the blade retracted. Screw fittings are located internally. These are used by bread bakers to score the top of bred...
  19. RichColvin

    MDF Rose Engine Library

    I have been building a library of useful information for the MDF Rose Engine user. If you have the Nextion/Teensy stepper controller system, the user guide is now there, as are instructions for loading the updates to the system. The user guide is not merely a PDF on the site, but an interactive...
  20. Spin Top Box

    Spin Top Box

    Ornamental Turned spinning top with matching box. Tops sits on the box 2 ways. Made of African Blackwood, Bamboo, Betel Nut & Lignum Vitae wood. 3" in diameter.
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