Wood Turning

Five students finished a wood turning workshop with Ken Lindgren today. Ken brought in a bin of wood that he collected from fallen trees and prepared into rounded plugs.

We peeked out from the office in back of the wood shop now and then as the students took the plugs of raw wood and began to transform them.

The sawdust smelled sweet as it filled the air.

At first there were some sharp nicks as one student’s chisel and then another’s caught the wood the wrong way. But it seemed as if students got the knack pretty quickly and then there was a steady whir from each workbench. Ken roamed from bench to bench checking, correcting, giving tips and teaching.

The finished pieces are just lovely. One student’s goblet will become a gift for her parents’ 60th wedding anniversary this weekend.