Gosh - can you believe it? Well, I hardly can...I'm so very excited to announce the publication of Sacred Geometry - a 16th Century Coloring Book. In an effort to engage a more diverse group of individuals with the incredible designs the rose engine can generate, I approached ornamental turner Al Collins with the idea of a coloring book. Seeing that these [...]
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Dearly Beloved Banjos
We are gathered here today for a number of important updates. It has certainly been some time since my last post. I have been working on quite a few projects in the mean time. One being the launch of my colleague David's new website: Lindow Machine Works. Check it out if you get a chance - his [...]
MADE in the Making
If you've been reading my blog then you'll have encountered photos of the gorgeous MADE Ornamental Rose Engine by David Lindow. Well... there's now a website with tons of incredible photos of the lathe and the process - a brochure(!) - and the whole story of its creation. Check it out! Here's a recent post [...]
Photos from Engine Turning II Class
We held our first advanced engine turning class last weekend! It was great to see some familiar faces, as the class was made up of returning students from previous sessions. Some students focused their time and energy on one ambitious project, while others tried using different materials, figuring out patterns from photographs of antique objects, [...]
Seeing the MADE lathe & the MJT
Last week in between classes David and I had the privilege of visiting The Museum of Jurassic Technology and taking a field trip to Al Collins workshop. Al is one of the developers of the MADE lathe and is in the thick of some fascinating research. He has developed some rosettes in an attempt to [...]