About Myself - Steve T

I first took up wood turning in 1992 and have been making things ever since, I was actually introduced to wood turning by two " old timers " from the village who have been wood turners all their lives,
I became interested in what they did and they went on to give me many lessons in wood turning and other wood crafts,

I believe in this game you have to sort of teach yourself and learn things along the way, you can be taught the very basics and then the rest is up to you which all comes down to experience,

All my ideas are my own although I did find traveling to various countries did broaden my horizons, I lived in New Zealand for a while as well as Ireland and Guernsey,

Born and bred here in Cumbria I live in the ideal place for collecting local hardwoods such as oak, beech, elm and ash,

My wood supplier is a keen environmentalist and every year he takes part in the planting of new trees and almost all the wood he gets is from an economical source such as wind blown trees and trees that have been needed to be chopped down,
this means that trees are not just " chopped down " in order to produce wood for sale,

Everything I make these days is just done as a hobby, I have tried selling things in shops in the past but that took the fun out of it.....
..... because this is only a hobby of mine there is only a certain amount I can get made and I have decided just to stick to placing things here on this website,
I do have other interests so I am only able to add things to this site as and when I have some free time and I'm afraid that means I keep away from doing commissioned pieces