This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here Already! After a recent demonstration, I decided to turn my own cross grain box. The wood I had available was smaller than that in the demonstration. Yet, I find the spalting in this sweet gum to be quite pretty. My box […]
Read More...This is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? – Right Here! In my Spring pruning, I cut a large limb from my apple tree. I hate to waste good wood, especially apple wood. However, apple is very likely to crack and split. So, it has to be treated. I decided to cut […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Enjoy! To complete my Easter Bunny’s egg cache, I’ve been working up in complexity from a solid egg to a hollowed paper joint egg, and now to an egg box This Easter egg is hollow for a small treat inside. A […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right HERE! My brother came for a visit and wanted me to demonstrate woodturning a box. I would rather have coached him to turn the box. However, that is all he had time for. An end grain box is always a good project with […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! I rough turned this cherry five years ago. At that time, it was freshly harvested. I turned the cylinder, cut tenons on both ends, and parted it in half. Then I had some good hollowing practice as I hollowed both pieces […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here, so stick around. To contribute my part to the sphere challenge and exercise a new technique, I decided to turn a multi-axis box with a sphere to serve as a lid. The wood is gum. The box is finished with lacquer; […]
Read More...This video is also loaded to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best? Right here! Our club challenged us to turn a box according to the style of Benoit Averly who demonstrated at the Utah Woodturning Symposium. His style included boxes with tall tapered lid textured and stained with a finial. But I still like to […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, Or Facebook – But why not right here? Here’s another way to dress up a turned cross grain wood box with a lid. Use the Infinite Axis Chuck to decorate a lid in a way that will never be duplicated. Here’s what I did. First, I […]
Read More...May also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook. Best right here! I could not take video during the workshop, so here is a summary of the week’s activity. The woodturning workshop: Craft Supplies USA; Intermediate Taught by Kirk DeHeer. Kirk is a practical yet highly skilled turner. There’s a lot I can learn from […]
Read More...May also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook — Best right here where you are! I turned this walnut box and lid to answer a challenge from the Utah Woodturners Club. We were to turn a lidded box and bring it to the club meeting. The box is about 5 1/2″ diameter by 3″ […]
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