Welcome you are the    visitor to the woodturning site of Derek Atkins. Although woodturning and particularly segmented woodturning (sometimes called polychromatic assembled woodturning) is the main subject of this site I also touch on a few of my other interests. These include:- Steam trains: Both myself and wife are volunteers for the local heritage steam railway, she works in the ticket office and I work in the carriage and wagon workshop. To see progress of the various restoration projects in the workshops then visit here. Cruising: We took our first ocean cruise for our silver wedding, we've since become hooked and have taken several more cruises. We particularly enjoy getting small tasters of various countries with a view to identifying which we'd like to spend more time in. For scenery Norway is certainly top of our pile so far. Marcos: One of the loves of my life has been a 1968 Marcos 1600GT. I'd owned this car for many years, sadly quite a few of them were when it was off the road for restoration. Some times I think I'd like it back again as it was a very enjoyable car to drive even with the short comings of a car of that age.