A gift for my parents 70th wedding anniversary. This vase is 6″ in diameter and ~7″ tall. The base is walnut; the spouts and finial are maple. It is finished with sanding sealer and walnut oil. Sorry, no video on this one YET.
Read More...A gift for my parents 70th wedding anniversary. This vase is 6″ in diameter and ~7″ tall. The base is walnut; the spouts and finial are maple. It is finished with sanding sealer and walnut oil. Sorry, no video on this one YET.
Read More...The wood for this bowl came from a friend who lives nearby. When someone gives me a bunch of wood, I like to make them something from it. In this case, I gave her a choice of a bowl soon but that may warp a little and a bowl that would not warp but that […]
Read More...For bowl turning, I’m always on the search for wood. And, when someone gives me some, I like to give them a bowl from their wood in return. Here, I want to turn a bowl from elm for a son’s friend who gave me the wood. However, it turned out that the wood had a […]
Read More...Summers Woodworking issued a challenge: Make something nice from an ordinary 2x4x8 stud. I couldn’t resist. For me, that means it would have to be round. But how to turn a 2×4 into something both round and nice? Hmmm. So I decided to make a large segmented bowl, using almost all of the 2×4. I’m […]
Read More...A little while ago, a viewer asked how he could turn a bowl without a chuck. He has a nice piece of wood and a new lathe but does not own a chuck. For many years now, I’ve consistently used a chuck when turning bowls. As it turns out, I recently purchased a mini lathe […]
Read More...For St. Patrick’s Day, I need a pot for the leprechauns to leave me a little of their gold. Fortunately, at a recent club meeting, Nick Stagg demo his bowl turning techniques. And even more, he gave me a big block of ash that he had used as a jam chuck. However, in my haste […]
Read More...A year ago, a limb of a maple tree fell on a friend’s home in a storm. He gave me some of the wood for woodturning. From the wood, I turned two natural edge bowls. The first bowl I turned all at once, finished it, then let it dry. I posted its video then. […]
Read More...Several years ago I rough turned a beautiful 13 by 6 inch bowl from a green or wet piece of ash. I promptly waxed the rough bowl, put it in a paper bag, and placed it on a shelf to dry. I intended to leave it for about a year. More than the allotted time […]
Read More...This salad bowl is woodturned walnut 10″ in diameter and 3″ tall and finished with walnut oil. The walnut was already well seasoned. The wood was salvaged from a gun stock supplier. It was a fairly quick, very enjoyable project. The most time (over night) came from gluing on a waste block to avoid loosing […]
Read More...This woodturning project is a petite square bowl in cherry. It was based by a demonstration by Eli Avisera. The blank is 5″ square, 3/4″ thick, finished with semi-gloss lacquer. The challenge with a square bowl are the corners. The corners appear as shadows; it is hard to know exactly where to start cutting with […]
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