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Welcome  to  my  site
Hello, I'm Pete Needham. I'm from Romiley in the North West of England and this site is the hub of my own small and ludicrous empire! Have a look round and I hope you enjoy seeing what I get up to.

woodturning

I taught myself to turn in 2005 and I started selling my work a year later. My favourite things to turn are hollow vessels as they are challenging to turn and their form really makes the most of a beautiful piece of wood and allows the grain and figuring to be the centre of attention.

Artwork

I've always loved drawing and painting and I've recently started working in soft pastel too.
I mainly do portraits, wildlife studies & landscapes but if something takes my fancy, I'll do that as well!

photography

I've had a camera since I was big enough to hold one and I would take photos of almost anything but in recent years I have settled into landscape and wildlife photography as my main interests. I use Nikon DSLRs and lenses that are dinosaurs by todays standards but I'm happy with the results.

Turning shop

I will soon be open for business and selling my hand turned work nationwide through Etsy.
Have a look at some of the pieces I have ready for sale by clicking the button below or take a look at my woodturning page (above) to see my past work as well as some turning projects and tool recommendations.
Everything I make is unique and all my own work from choosing the raw timber to making it and it will be me that packs and posts it too.

Projects

I love making things, all sorts of things. Art cabinets to gold sluices, woodworking hand tools to engine parts and if I can make it from scrap materials then all the better. I don't have any junk, just things I haven't found a use for yet!
I've already got quite a few projects uploaded and ready for you to look at but I've also got a lot more to add.
I'm always coming up with ideas and making stuff so keep checking to see what I've been up to.

Camera Gear

This page follows on from my projects page but is specific to camera gear. As we all know, camera equipment can be very expensive so why spend a fortune on something you can make for next to nothing? As well as gear for still photography, I make accessories for my GoPro too.
Want to make a Glidecam? How about a ring flash adapter, softbox or nodal point panorama head? This is where you'll find all that good stuff! The Glidecam is already on as well as a GoPro polarizer and I'll be doing the rest soon.

my highland
dream

I have one main aim in life and this is it. I want to live in the highlands of Scotland. It's not too much to ask, is it?
It's something I've wanted to do for a long time and nothing is going to stop me. Everything I'm doing at the moment is geared towards making this happen.
This section of the site is hopefully going to follow how I'm getting on with making this a reality.

Wild scorpio
designs

When I'm not woodturning, working on a project or getting a nice photograph, I also design cool stuff to put on clothing and a wide range of accessories.
My work is professionally printed and available worldwide through Redbubble, Zazzle & Cafepress.
If you fancy updating your wardrobe, why not have a look?

Wild Scorpio
Blog

I have a blog on Wordpress and it's called 'Wild Scorpios World' but you can see it on this site too. I'll be posting about all the stuff I get up to and anything else that I feel is worth mentioning.
I hope to be documenting how I'm getting on with the big move to the Scottish Highlands and what happens in my life beyond that so if that floats your boat, pop on over and subscribe.