RPTurners.co.uk Tom   Pockley

	Address.............	Timber Cottage The Street Stone in Oxney Tenterden Kent TN30 7JN
	Phone Number...	01233 758542
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	Email................. Web Site............	tom@woodturneruk.com www.woodturneruk.com
	Main Products....	Period musical wind instruments
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About Tom and his work

After thirty years as a Chemistry teacher I have been working as a woodturner since 1993. My interest in music has meant that I have made several baroque and classical members of the Oboe family and also have developed two styles of music stand.
I make a wide variety of bowls, platters and hollow forms mainly, but not exclusively, using timber grown in Britain. I like to exploit the natural properties of the timber to make shapes which show grain patterns and distortion to the best effect.
Also I use the ebonizing effect of iron on the tannin in some woods to give striking contrasts in colour and connecting surfaces. I use weak colour washes to enhance the grain pattern of some timbers which are otherwise bland and to bring out the grain in beautiful wood like burr field-maple.
I enjoy teaching woodturning to others who share the fascination of getting the best out of wood and give two or three day courses, on a one-to-one basis (or if preferred, to couples).
I was proud to win 2nd prize in the open turning competition of the Worshipful Company of Turners in 2002. The subject being ‘a condiment set for a banqueting hall’. My piece was made of ebony with boxwood spoons and mustard pot insert and set on a tray of burr red Mallee.

Examples of work or parts turned by Tom Pockley

Ebony with boxwood spoons and mustard pot insert and set on a tray of burr red Mallee	Wild crab lily form 5' high
Burr field maple pot 11'	Field maple globe 10' on steel and ebonised robinia stand
Burr Elm waney edged bowl 11'	Spallted holly pot 18' high

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