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When I started turning, early in 2013, I was strongly influenced by current trends in woodturning and was very inquisitive about the practice of using pieces of timber that would formerly have been discarded because of what was once referred to as “defects”. Nowadays we have a much more responsible attitude towards the use of a precious, natural material and this fact, coupled with a growing desire among people in general to own decorative pieces made from natural, organic materials, led me along the route that I have followed for five years. Perhaps my earliest success was in choosing a round of ash log which had been cut for firewood, and which was still green. From this short piece of log I produced my first natural edge, green turned bowl and I sat back, nervously, as I waited for it to dry, in the knowledge that a fairly high percentage of green-turned bowls will crack. As luck had it, the bowl stayed intact and the result was delightful; I gained more pleasure from that bowl than I have from any item since.