This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? Right Here! I’ve searched for a long time for a good stand for small projects and Christmas ornaments. This is one of the two best that I’ve seen. However, I will continue my search. This display stand consists of two almost separate projects. The […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here already! After my lampshade disaster, I was about to throw that wood into the fireplace. But after Lauren, a woodturner from our club, shared what he has done after a similar disaster, I decided to try something. This leaf is from the […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here. What to do with a pretty piece of wood with an old rusty nail in it? Turn a bowl, of course. But avoid the nail. The wood is spalted box elder. Someone drove a nail into the tree. The tree grew […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Why go anywhere else but here! After turning several projects where I mimicked Max Brosi turning that I saw him demo, I decided to try a take off. This is based on his Octahedron which is named for the octagon used early in its turning. […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! When on a wood acquisition journey, we cut off the end of a hollow box elder log to assess the amount of good wood. When we did, we also found old rusty nails inside the rotten hollow. The vendor gave me the […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here Already! This project is a crooked branch I cut from a crab apple tree. I’ve been watching out for such a limb following a demonstration by Paul Russell at our club meeting. It is kind of like a multi-axis turning because the […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! As I’ve noted before, I was impressed by demonstrations by Max Brosi at the AAW Symposium at Raleigh, NC this summer. At first, I could not figure out how to turn this octahedron. However, once I understood the process that Max […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! After seeing several examples of turning projects that had been bleached, I decided to try bleaching wood myself. I researched on the internet and found some great resources especially from AAW. I also checked for commercial wood bleach products. Most of these […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. After seeing Pascal Oudet from France at the AAW symposium demonstrate, I came home to try it myself. I hoped to replicate the look and feel of his project. Pascal also sand blasts and bleaches many of his […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. After I see a great demo by someone who truly turns something unique, I just have to try it myself. This is my situation after seeing Max Brosi at the AAW symposium demonstrate what he called a whale bone form. The project starts […]
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