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One more furniture

Of all the wood work that I do furnitures are not my strongest skill but I do like them at the end.
This one took 9 months to complete and at times I thought it will never end. But it did. It is a small cabinet standing for a kind of a bedside table.

I had little patience for anything else during this time but I still managed to make this little set of drawers. Made with a scrollsaw. The beads are from my old inventory. I used to make them in the distant past.

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Maybe miniatures?

I’m not sure of the official measurements that can be defined as miniature but these are really small. I was looking for ways to incorporate my glass work with my recent craft and I think I found at least one way of doing that.

Another opportunity presented itself when I turned a lid and made an unintended hole. This is the result.

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I did make a lid….

In my previous post I had a photo of bowl which I thought needed a lid. Here it is:


After that one I made a couple of more lids:

These are going to be at Strathnairn members exhibition. If you are in Canberra please drop in for a visit. 11th April to 10th May 2026.

This doesn’t yet have a lid:


And my latest is a carving exercise: cheese knife

very comfortable to hold. Didn’t try to use it yet. It was fun to make.

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No photos, almost….

I haven’t visited my blog for a while and that is because I have no photos to share. The reason is I am now in a furniture workshop attempting to make a small cabinet. The way things are going I might have a photo around next Christmas.

In the meantime I have been playing with the scroll saw and I came up with this one:

And one turned bowl:

I think this one is in need of lid.

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Small and Cute

I have an internal struggle with the size of the things I make. When I worked with clay I strived to make bigger artefacts but instead of getting bigger they just got heavier. Not great. Now I am aiming for large wood items but this time the lathe size is the limiting factor. So I enjoy making small objects and aim to make them as cute as possible. Hope you think so too.

I also started experimenting with different king of timber. Burl, Banksia fruit and laminated wood as I learned glued blocks of wood is called….. It is also know as segmented turning but mine look nothing like what you see when you google that term….

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My latest wood works

I’ve been busy with my coffee table adventure and here is the result:

It was complicated and I wouldn’t have been able to get anywhere without the help of the Furniture Sig in the woodcraft guild, Canberra.

In addition I continued with turning and got some absolutely beautiful things. Here are some:

These items will be up for sale at the botanical garden Canberra when the Woodcraft Guild will have its annual exhibition in October 2025.

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The largest one so far

I’ve been wanting to work on the big lath for a while now but was a bit intimidated. However I bought a few very big blanks for turning so had to overcome that somehow……. and I did.
This is the largest bowl I’ve turned so far.

Also….. the wine cup I showed you before was actually supposed to be a scoop which I didn’t want to make cause I liked the shape too much. However, I did ended up making another one:

And we had Hanukah somewhere in the middle, so turning tops were in order