This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! I went out to my woodshed and spotted an old apricot crotch that I have been saving “for a rainy day”. The wood is worse off for the time that it has been taking up space in my shed. I decided […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Recently, I’ve experimented with different ways to turn a small hollow vase without doing the hollowing through the small neck of the vase. This is one of the best options. I originally rough turned this vase about a year ago. At […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here, aren’t you? I had not completed a triple inside out turning for quite a while. So, after seeing Dale Dallon demonstrate an inside out flame, I had to jump back into it and incorporate the refinements I saw in his process. […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Barbara Dill’s book on multi-axis woodturning is the inspiration for this project. As I looked through the photos, I said to myself, “That can’t be that hard, it’s just a sphere and some holes”. But a doughnut chuck I made several […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! According to Wikipedia, “An egg of Columbus or Columbus’ egg refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. I am inspired by the great work I saw at the Utah Woodturning Symposium. My way to praise some of the work is to emulate it. Such is the case with this sphere inspired by Vivien Grandoullier from the Instant Gallery. Essentially, […]
Read More...This video is also available via YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! After seeing a decorative glass item at a craft store, I had to try to make a similar wood item. The original was a hexagon, mine is a round. The original was glass, mine is wood. Mine can roll around. I’m not […]
Read More...May also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook – But best right here! I got this idea from the Utah Woodturning Symposium, specifically Raleigh Lockhart’s presentation. It entails cutting a leaf shape on a scrollsaw then turning it on the lathe. My leaf plate is a grape leaf about 6 inches in diameter and […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But best right here where you are! At the invitation from fellow woodturner, Sam Angelo, I turned this 2″ by 7″ tube from fresh wet cherry. This project is fun because when the turning is finished, I go to the microwave to heat it […]
Read More...May also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. – Please stay right here! Where do project ideas come from? Anywhere! This is inspired by a large object outside a building between the San Diego airport and the rental car center. I hope someone from San Diego can tell me what it actually is. The […]
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