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Mark Fairchild

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Mark Fairchild

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I started turning 3 years ago after retiring from road and bridge construction.
Turning interest are bowls and hollow forms, or whatever strikes my fancy when the wood is in the lathe.
As I also do leather work I have combined the two on occasion. Obviously I am not a photographer!
I’m looking forward to learning from the vast amount of knowledge I see here!
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Nick Valenza said:
Welcome Mark! Nice Lathe and work! Your shop us too clean! Let's see some shavings!
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Ah! The clean shop. After working for a year with a midi lathe out of a spare stall in the barn I built a 17’ x 30’ shop and ordered a Robust. The new lathe arrived the day after the shop was finished. It has not been clean since. Thank you for the welcome.
 
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Gene Pitstick said:
Welcome from Ohio. Looking for your sharing and questioning. Your pieces are great looking. Did you do the leather tooling?
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Gene, yes I did. It is another hobby of mine. For me, making the bowl is the easy part. Drawing a pattern and tooling the leather takes a lot of time. The band is made in two pieces and laced together. Thank you for the welcome. 4D94501B-F07E-407B-A9A1-AB8B6F9EEEF2.jpeg
 
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Alan Weinberg said:
great work. Would love to learn more re the leather.
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Thank you very much Allen. Leather work is a discipline within itself. For tooling or stamping I use vegetable tanned leather. . I make a pattern to fit the particular bowl I have turned. This is transferred to the leather and tooled. After dying, the background is dyed black. The finished piece is attached with contact cement and laced on opposite ends. The pattern is then thrown away so I never make a duplicate. Everything I have learned on tooling leather has been learned by watching Don Gonzales on UTube. He is a saddle maker in Texas. He is an excellent teacher. If there is anything more specific you would like to know let me know. A bit of a warning here. If there is anything more painful to watch thann someone turning their first bowl with no real instruction, it’s watching someone tool leather for the first time. It’s a long learning curve and I’m still on it.
 
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Mark Fairchild said:
Thank you Sir. Glad to meet another Turner from Mississippi! Hope we can meet face to face soon.
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Sorry I did not get back to you. Had a knee replacement the 23rd. Our club meets the the Ms Ag Museum in Jackson every 3rd Saturday. We have several members in Hattiesburg area and maybe you could carpool.
 
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