Turning Wooden Flowers on a lathe

[SuzieRosebud]

Hello Stuart; I wish to say once again that your flowers inspired me and your DVD is a keepsake DVD in my arsenol of woodturning DVD's. Everyone who is thinking about learning this should have your DVD! Something so small and simply can be so rewarding and inspirational. They make such lovely gifts because people are amazed with them and how they were made.

I wish you great health, happiness and prosperity always,

Susan S. in Maryland USA :-)

[cesking]

Dear Susan, Thank you very much for your loverly words, it makes it all woth while, I try to have fun with every thing that I do whether it is woodturning, digging up 2000 year old Roman pots in my local forest or making videos of the things that matter to me, It's been a few years now since I was in your part of the world doing some woodturning demos and lectures, take care,

Stuart K

[Jeremyfox43921]

how long do you dry the wood for to prevent the flowers from cracking ?

[cesking]

Dear@Jeremyfox43921 , They will not crack, you can turn them from green wood or dry, you just get longer or shorter petals,

Regards,

Stuart King

[42cookie]

Hello nice Flower as I live in Australian what type of wood can I use????

[cesking]

Dear @42cookie , Straight and knot free, then experiment,

Stuart King

[06vhstyle01]

This is so awesome-very unique talent.

[MoontownMoss]

turning begins at 2.30

[MrLeonard55]

Truly a work of art. Beautiful.

[kaymand4]

is there other trees you can use

[cesking]

Dear @kaymand4 , you will have to experiment!,

Stuart King

[kaymand4]

i live in oklahoma in the u.s.a. is there another type of wood i can use to make these flowers they are awesome

[Scrap5000]

That lathe is EPIC old school!

[Scrap5000]

When you hazel, do you mean as in hazel nut trees? My family in Italy is surrounded by hazel nut trees....

[cesking]

Dear Scrap5000, Yes, So you have the raw material, get making some wooden flowers! Best wishes, Stuart King 

[Scrap5000]

@cesking Awesome! Only one problem: I live in the U.S., lol. I think I will ask them to cut some and dry them out for me so that I can take them back when I visit next time. Thank you, and excellent video!

[MrLeonard55]

@Scrap5000 If you'll send me some Hazelnut i'll send you some American Cherry or Black Walnut. I have some that has been drying for years.

Leonard

[321AUDIO]

nice



[logos2600]

nice work

[wombosi]

beautiful stuff mate.

love the lathe, too. nice skills.

[sofiadragon1979]

I lve your tradle lathe. Also I would like to know what is the approxamite speed that you are using there.

[cesking]

Hello sofiadragon1979, Thanks for your kind words, the lathe runsa at about 400 rpm,

Stuart King

[sofiadragon1979]

@cesking Thank you very much.

[turtlemom]

I'm amazed at how quick and, to the trained hands, easy this is! Makes me wish my hands and wrists would let me turn again!

[assassin616]

wow, thats amazing

[spoonerismer]

what did you use to color them at the end? I have witled little things like that before but on the lathe looks a lot faster.

[cesking]

Hello spoonerismer, I use good quality 'paint-pens' availble at good art shops, the are expensive but the colours do not fade and the pens last a very long tim (As long as the cap is replaced!,

Stuart King

[Milby20289394bc]

o man thats cooo i bet those would look beautiful with a little shillak

[xesusxose]

Fantastic!

Parece tan sencillo que hasta un niño lo podría hacer. Claro que para eso habría que tener un torno.

Sigue así haciendo maravillas. Chao

[woodsaver]

The wood wizard!

[TheBigRagu82]

Mesmerising! Magic!

[1drummerdon]

Well done! I'm always looking for something new to try on the lathe. Can't wait to try it. Thanks!

[deezynar]

Great tools, great technique, great product.

[gswiaczny]

Fantastic! I really like your lathe :) Best regards from Poland, Greg

[pokerman1947]

Stuart King demonstrated his turning of flowers to the Tudor Rose Woodturners a few weeks ago using a standard electrically driven lathe. His comment was the slower the better on fixed speed lathes but to keep experimenting on your own lathe to find the speed that works for you!

[jws54]

very pretty and so relaxing to watch

[kimmarie801]

that's so pretty! 5*

[jura1313]

Thanks - I look forward to having a try. Hope sycamore and an electric lathe will work, though I probably cannot get the lathe to spin slowly enough.

[specialbeat]

Wow, can this be done on an electric lathe? If so, what kind or RPM?

[T3hJones]

Nice flowers but I am more interested in your lathe! Is it made from an old sewing machine?

[Axbent]

foot treadle lathes were common in the old days.

[cesking]

No, it is a genuine Victorian lathe

[Jayforshort]

!!!!!!! I still couldn't do it! I don't have the spinny thing, the tools, nor the wood. :(

[cweierman]

no just jokin this is awsome

[cweierman]

this sucks my fghjk

[frog2eyes]

Good one

[jws54]

Now, that IS neat. Thanks for showing us that.

[momkeypikels]

that is really cooooool!!!!!!!

[SailorBarsoom]

This is so cool. I would never have thought of this.

[Wallrunner1992]

awesome idea

[lathebadger]

Excellent idea for craft stalls

[walkinthefloor]

i think what hes calling sun shoots are suckers which grow very fast. as far as the characteristics of hazel i would guess that its a real close grain wood probably like a hard maple tree would work good.

[NBMonkey]

frikin cool

[lathebadger]

what an easy idea

[lathebadger]

what a good idea!

[bebopadula]

What are the characteristics of hazel that make it appropriate. I live in northern North America and we have no hazel.

Thanks

[cesking]

wood needs to be light colour, no knots, long fibre

[wuzfuzde]

thank you for sharing

[amvoa]

Este si es un maestro, sencillez y muy buen afilado

[BabyBright]

wow...amazing

[SerielThriller]

lovely, simply super...

[tfinniefilms]

deeliteful. nyce lathe an toolz. thx bruh bruh

[spawndonacle]

Thanks for the education.

[Vonlovaonly]

As new to wood turning I think this is a easy for even me to try. Thanks for the vidios.

[DocStein99]

Cute! What a trick to impress a lady with!

[hvolboll]

nice lathe and tool

[hvolboll]

thank you nice video

[2adrien]

Well Done! Delightful.