VIDEO: A good turn deserves another at Cork Craft Month

Tommy Barker joins an expert woodturner in a bid to discover what could have been if he had not thrown out his rusty old lathe.

THE arrival of Cork Craft Month gave me a chance for a spin in the countryside — at several hundred revolutions per minute.

Offered the chance to try my hand for a few hours at a craft with a skilled practitioner just last week, I could have gone for pottery or painting, furniture making or woodcarving. Woodturning it was to be, though. As easy, surely, as falling into a log?