Our featured open segment turner for this article is Colin Delory. His open segmented turning pieces are amazing. Colin says he turns one a week. Wow! See all his work on his website – Colin Delory Wood Artisan. Please leave a comment below so Colin will know you stopped by!
Here’s some information from Colin:
All my adult life I have enjoyed working with wood and have built a wide range of things from cottages, to furniture to toys. I get great satisfaction in taking the raw trees trunks and branches and using them to create various things of beauty. What I like about woodturning is it gives me the opportunity to transform these local woods into unique works of art thereby recycled the wood and bringing new life to it. My segmented works open up even more opportunities to express myself by combining different woods to create interesting patterns to compliment my vessel shapes. Being a self taught woodturner I continue to explore new techniques to enhance and improve my work and have recently added metal spinning to my bag of tricks.
OPEN SEGMENTED TURNING
In open segmented turning, there are gaps left between each segment. This technique leaves many small holes or “windows” in the final form. There many tricks for open segmented turning and lots of specialized jigs and tools to help. If you are interested trying open segmented turning, I highly suggest you take a look at the book Segmented Wood Turning by William Smith for lots of great information on turning open segmented projects.
Colin Delory was born in England and emigrating to Canada as a pre-teen. He was educated in Winnipeg and spent 38 years as a project engineer and engineering manager in the telephone industry in both Manitoba and BC. On retiring in 1997, Colin took up woodturning and is currently a member of the American Association of Woodturners, the Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild and the Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild.
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Darn it, now there’s ANOTHER wood project I have to add to my “to do” list!
Very Good I would like to turn like this. Some day Bob Stay
go for it….enjoy!
Hello, I have never seen this type of open segmented turning before. Very impressive. Hopefully one day I can become this good. Hope you don’t mind if I borrow your idea. Thanks for putting these up for all to see. Vern