Any other woodworkers?

I took up woodturning a few years back, something I had always wanted to try.  Really enjoy it and have joined a local club.

I also enjoy woodwork in general, making bits and pieces,  laying wood flooring, doing stuff around the house like kitchens, various cupboards etc.

I have been wood turning for over 25 years now, I just find it so theriputic, I never got into the clubs, but then again when I started there wasnt many about, and at the age of 13 most wouldnt let me in

I enjoy Woodworking DIY, just finished a fitted wardrobe for my grandson's football shirts. My garage is kitted out for wood work I have a circular saw 3" rip, a bench planer, a sander, bench drill, routers , cordless drills, mains voltage tools etc etc.I have made lots of shabby chic French style trays, lime painted a stenciled with champagne decals , Eiffel Tower, etc designs. I also make large footstools which I cover with various materials , also make and fit hardwood legs. So really quite busy with woodworking. Sadly not done any wood turning since school days. ( Great  this Retirement )

I dabble in a bit of wood turning ,made a few bowls and dishes , I even power the lathe by solar panel 

Yes, I'm aa amateur woodworker although my wife thinks I like collecting tools even more!  My double garage really isn't big enough anymore.  Two lathes, multi-function saw table with planer-thicknesser and spindle moulder, band saw, scroll saw and shelves full of power tools of various sorts.  Have had a go at most things - couple of Windsor chairs, usual selection of bowls including quite a few presentation pieces.  At one time, I had a thing going for making gavels and still do make them if asked.  Recently been dabbling with walking sticks which is fascinating. Never made a single penny from anything I have made - given everything away, so I could never have done it for a living!!

My OH loves working with wood too, and when young he wanted to be a furniture designer, but went into Engineering Consultancy instead, and ended up working on major constructions such as retail complexes, office buildings, and railways.

Today he's been doing a simple job, replacing the timber around our raised beds in the garden, but when we go back to France we will be replacing the staircase, including some beautiful stair treads which will be made from hundreds of years old oak, and he'll also make a custom-made guard-rail, made from oak, at the top of the staircase to avoid accidents with our grandchildren.  I do some of the fine sanding, and 'design' - he does the critical cutting and jointing!

One of his next 'must do's' is to have a go at walking sticks. We met a chap at a local craft fair who make sticks. He harvested his own sticks - often from wood twined around with ivy, or other climbers, so that it made a spiral pattern grooved into the stick and then he made a steamed and compressed horn handle.  David was fascinated and is collecting the sticks and hoping the hunters in our local village will give him some antlers and boar tusks to compress and turn into handles!  It may be my job to make some silver mounts to marry the two.

There is something magical about the smell of worked wood!  I chose to do woodwork at Grammar school as an alternative to a third language!

I enjoy a challenge, there is very little to do with wood that I will not tackle.  OH often comes up with things for me to make.  And I will tackle any size of job.  I have done a lot of work on our present house.

At the moment I am just finishing a steamed beech 12inch bowl as a wedding present for our daughter, plus I have made them a walnut quaich in which our grandson will carry the wedding rings at the ceremony.

Just hope he does not drop it!!

Built a few wooden boats in my time and renovated some as well but not for some years now.

seems like a lot of people dabble in wood, as for a workshop, mine is just a 12'x8' shead, with most of the big machines (planer/thickener, table saw, band saw, router table ect) all on wheeled bases so I can pull them into the doorway to work on larger pieces of wood, but still limits me to about 9' in length, and then the radial arm saw, lathe are fixed, and then the smaller more mobile bits like bench morticer, spindle sander ect are stoored under benches, its a bit tight, and for making larger pieces like bed frimes I end up building them on the patio :) I like most other have never really made any money out of it, the odd bits to cover materials and maybe £10 here and there but nothing major, one of the next things I fancy having a play with is steaming oak, but need to build the steamer first and work out a way of generating enough steam to power it

Saw some herb tressels today at a garden centre, they were made up of a folding X tressel when opened out a 4''x 18''x 24'' box was laid on top. This top box was divided into 12 sections where herb pots could be stored. Yes be having a go at making some of these .