TigerLilyWorkshop.com
Title
Tiger Lily Workshop Home Page
Description
by Dick Wexelblat
Pat started Tiger Lily Workshop in 1990, as a vehicle for selling her hand and machine knits. I took up wood turning as a hobby in July 1991 and that same year, began to sell my work under the name of Wood Lily. (As I noted to Pat, tiger lilies are common as grass but the wood lily is an endangered species.) In 1993, Pat added wood turning to her list of skills and we "merged" Wood Lily into Tiger Lily Workshop.
Wood turning is fun. For me these days even more fun than programming. I prefer to work with oddly shaped, distressed, and partly decayed wood. It's satisfying to make something interesting, artistic (well, sometimes artistic), or occasionally even useful from wood found by the side of the road, in a firewood pile, or in the odds and ends bin at the lumber yard. Scrounging works too: the sound of a chain saw will bring me running. Here I am apparently quite pleased at what I've just made.
Actually making those particular pieces of sugar pine was very pleasing. I've generally found pine too soft to turn. The grain tends to tear rather than cutting smoothly. But then our next door neighbor brought some blocks of pine back from her family farm in Wisconsin and asked if I could make some bowls for her to give as gifts at a family reunion. Thanks to my ever more skillful touch--and some deft work with 80 and 120 grit sandpaper--success!
Contact
- Wexelblat, Richard
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- Merion Station PA
- US 19066
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- 610 664 6717
