Turning – Occasional Turnings

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Always happy for custom orders

February 14, 2021 Damian

Hi all, Hope everyone is settling into 2021. Certainly been a busy start to 2021 for us and have been priviledged to complete several custom orders for customers. Sort of realised we could do this when we enabled the custom order functionality on our etsy shop 🙂 https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/OccasionalTurnings Be it a custom container for rare incense or a hand-made puppet, a custom wand in the size and material of your wanting, a custom fairy house for a little one or a special valentines gift for a loved one we have been able to complete on time and exceeded expectations in

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General Info and news, Turning

Elder and Hazel Branches have arrived :)

January 26, 2021 Damian

Hi everyone, Just received some Elder Wood and Hazel branches soon to be wands – super excited 🙂 The elder will have to be seasoned though as pretty green but should be turning out some Hazel wands in a couple of weeks. Managed to get the Elder from a convservation project based down in Surrey – they take a lot of care when managing their estate so the Elder Tree it was taken from was not harmed in any fashion – particuarly important for Elder wands that the wood is taken with respect 🙂 I’m

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Turned Crafts, Turning

A happy mistake

December 27, 2020 Damian

Hi everyone, I hope you’ve had a good a christmas as you could have under the circumstances and looking forward to hopefully a more positive 2021 🙂 Got back in the workshop for a bit today and was turning some more incense holders out of Yew as they have been really popular running up to christmas. They are relatively small and so was finishing the top of them with wax as normal but idiot shiell had yanked up the speed to 3500 revs to get a nice buff. Anyway, smoke started appearing and ripped the cotton cloth that I was

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