Chris Fahey
New to the Woodturning discipline. Chris has been turning for 2006. Chris has always had a passion for wood and has worked on hand make pieces that incorporated natural slate and wood in the past.
Chris stumbled into Woodturning when he set out to produce a Grandfather clock that he had the planes for over eight years. Parts of the grandfather clock had spindle columns and a decorative finial and with that he bought a lathe. He knew straight away that his true passion and love for wood lay in woodturning.
Chris harvests his own wood and follows the process of the wood from falling of the tree himself, to drying and treatment of the wood right through to the turning and finishing of the piece. The woods that he uses in his pieces are usually native and are from a managed source. His favourite woods to turn are spalted beech, elm and yew. His favourite wood turning chisel is the ¾ skew.
He turns on a union graduate that he refurbished as with most of his equipment. He is a strong believer that older machinery was built to last. He makes allot of his own jigs and fixtures putting his years of engineering experience into use.
He uses creative woodturning design software to help him with the design of his long term projects in his converted design room then takes his schematic to his wood store then picks out a piece of wood and brings it to his workshop for working. His favourite type of turning is segmented. He is a self-taught wood turner and his influences are turners Malcolm Tibbetts and Steward Mortimer.
