Mary Ostler

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The front legs are almost done.Some light sanding and cutting the pivot waste down and its time to move on to the longer back legs. The hardest part was making sure it was dead center even. If it was off even a little the squared section would be out of wack.

With Christmas sneaking up fast, I have been forced to start working on presents. First up is Emily’s first birthday/christmas present. I had originally wanted to make her a rocking animal. Leland got a super cool rocking goat for his first birthday, but the idea kind of got nixed on me. I was told that [...]

Having acquired Buffalo fleece at AT war, and previously turned a drop spindle to spin the wool. I went ahead an made a set of wool combs. I have had a chunk of scrap walnut kicking around the shop for years now, so I decided to use it. Its just big enough to make two [...]

Today was a play day out in the shop. I have no projects that are needed done ASAP, and I spent last weekend cleaning the shop. Just plain old ME time. I decided to do some turning. Mistress Agnes had asked about making some thread spools out of a couple chunks of mahogany. I was [...]

In 2005 I taught a Pole Lathe class up at Cinton war. It was only possible to teach this class up at Clinton due to the multi-day event left enough time to set it up, and the property owners permission to cut down multiple poplar trees for the spring poles. I never took images of [...]

I feel so happy watching this video, I could just cry. My new Happy thought for the day. It also doesn’t hurt that the music for the video rocks.

Finished all the turned work on the head board. Still have to paint all the parts  either red, black or gold leaf. Originally I was going to make the whole bed from the Douglas Fir pallets from my workplace. Well plans change. My company recently went through a massive restructuring. We are now primarily a [...]

Got a bit more done on the Turned Bedframe Have all the larger dowels roughed down to size Starting in on the Center Doughnut. Turning a 1″ sphere with two 1/2″ 90′ holes through it is hard… real hard! Doughnut in bedframe Center panel with 1″ spheres. The small dots are 1/4″ buttons. Not sure [...]

Alright, Heres my drawing (one step up from the doodle) of the turned bed frame. Heres a picture of a example of the insanity a wood turner can get up too. I have found no images of a bedframe done in such a manner, but I can so believe that a turner would have been [...]