Archive for the ‘Ornaments’ Category


A Snowman Ornament Dressed For Christmas

This woodturning is a nice snow gentleman dressed for the winter season. He’s made of hard maple with a walnut hat and yarn scarf. His belt is a burn. Overall, he’s coated in mineral oil and beeswax. He will be part of a Christmas Ornament Challenge.

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A Field of Mushrooms (Part 4 & Final)

I’m woodturning a natural edge mushroom in apricot. In this video, I’m extending my series exploring what difference the turning axis could make on a mushroom turning. While turning the other three mushrooms, another axis experiment occurred to me. so here we go with another experiment. With this final apricot branch, I’m simply shifting the turning […]

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A Field of Mushrooms (Part 2)

Woodturning a natural edge mushroom in apricot. In this video, I continue a series exploring what difference the turning axis could make on a mushroom turning. A viewer questioned how I oriented the turning axis, so here we go with an experiment. With this second apricot branch, I’m orienting the turning axis a few degrees […]

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A Field of Mushrooms (Part 1)

This woodturning project is a natural edge mushroom in apricot. A viewer questioned how I oriented the turning axis on the last video. Since I didn’t have a defined answer, I decided to do an experiment. With three apricot branches, I will orient the turning axis differently in each one: one straight thru the pith; one diagonally […]

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A Mushroom in Apricot

This woodturning project is a small natural edge mushroom in apricot. I saw Walt Weis at the Oregon State Fair making his version of mushrooms. The mushroom is 3″ tall, and a little over 2″ across the cap and finished with mineral oil and beeswax. The wood is green or wet apricot harvested about 9 […]

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Wood Egg Box in Walnut

Please register for updates over at right =======>>>>>>>>>>>> My twin granddaughters wanted me to make them each a wooden egg. My thoughts went directly to a hollow egg, or wooden container. With dry urban harvested walnut, I started to turn the two eggs. The first egg was nearly a disaster. I had turned the tenon […]

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Sea Urchin Ornament 2 on Juniper

This woodturning project is the second in a response to a challenge by Cascade Woodturners to make “something” from a juniper block. I had made one already but decided to make a second sputnik sea urchin ornament. It has a sea urchin shell with juniper finials above and below the shell. The lower juniper finial […]

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Sea Urchin Ornament on Juniper

This woodturning project is a response to a challenge issued by Cascade Woodturners to make “something” from a juniper block, I decided to make a sea urchin ornament with a sea urchin shell with juniper finials above and below the shell. To prepare, I reviewed two videos by Cindy Drozda who makes beautiful turned wood […]

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