Wooden Bowls and Woodturning Tursini Woodturning and Bowl Works  
ARCHITECTURAL TURNING  

sugar maple pestles

Quality custom architectural turnings for restoration, commercial, institutional, and residential applications.

Taking the diameter down with a roughing gouge

Have a skilled woodturner provide you with a high quality hand turned product.  I reproduce spindle work with traditional hand methods emphasizing accuracy and fine detail. 

Discriminating clients such as conservators, architects, and furniture makers will find that turned spindles cut with honed hand tools provide fine detail and unique profiles unattainable in conventional turnings.

Contact Ralph Tursini to discuss your application and recieve a quote and lead time. 

  • Typical work includes
    • porch columns
    • newel posts
    • finials
    • balusters
    • rosettes
    • table and chair legs
    • bedposts
  • Lathe Capacities:
    • long spindle turnings of 8' in length and 24" diameter
    • faceplate work up to 60" in diameter
  • Can work from dimensioned drawings, patterns, originals, photographs or descriptions.
  • I can saw and core large and specialty bowl turning blanks up to 24” inches in diameter - contact me for details.
  • I especially enjoy unconventional and challenging work
Examples of Custom Work (click photos to enlarge)

faceted newel posts

Faceted newel posts designed by custom stair-maker

 

detail of faceted newel posts

To preserve detail, the v-groove between octagonal and square sections had to be turned by hand

Custom turned sugar maple pestles

Large sugar maple pestles reproduced from an original (seen at the right of photograph)

ceremonial black walnut mace for the University of Vermont College of Enigineering and Mathematics

Black Walnut Ceremonial mace for the University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematics

 



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