Wood Turning Ireland:
Wood Turning requires great skill, experience and knowledge of the varieties of turnable wood in Ireland.
Bog Oak Irish Wood Turned Bowls are a particular challenge to the wood turner and requires great skill to produce. Wood turned bowls for sale with artistic and functional design features and particularly of bowls in Irish Bog Oak when stocks are available.
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Woodturning begins about 1300BC with the Egyptians. The wood was turned with a rope while the tuner used a sharpened tool to cut the wood. From the middle ages in England and other lands, a branch of a flexible tree was used to turn the wood via a rope. This allowed the wood turner to hold the woodturning tools more securely with both hands. This came to be called spring pole turning and were common right up to the 20th Century.
Turned wood is an excellent medium for contemporary art. Wood has great beauty and variety in the grain which provides an endless element of surprise to the wood turner. Wood can be easier to shape than other artistic materials, but significant experience and skill is required to make items of turned wood for sale that are pleasing and functional.