This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! What do you do with leftover wood? How about when you worked a lot to make a laminated blank? In this case I had to make additional segmented rings to have enough for the globe of the ornament. It is traditional […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Preparing for this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, this hand bell was inspired by a presentation by Robin Costelle at the Segmented Woodturning Symposium. However, it does deviate from his bell in that it has multiple layers or rings. The wood in […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! For my first entry to this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I chose a traditional globe style ornament with bottom icicle finial. I wanted the globe to be a perfect ellipse similar to a perfect sphere. Of course, a perfect ellipse would […]
Read More...This video is also on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. At our last woodturning club meeting, I won a chunk of wood in our raffle. It was a mystery wood salvage from a members job from discarded packing material. What do I do with a short piece of 4×4 with drying checks. In the Christmas Ornament […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But you’re here already where it is best! While wrapping up this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I wanted to make one more Christmas ornament. For this ornament, I used left over laminations from a rolling pin projects and oriented the layers on a diagonal. […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Place? Right Here! The Christmas Ornament Challenge is accepting entries through November. Enter yours at www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges/. For this project, I decided to do something different. Instead of a hollow globe with finials, I decided to substitute a disk for the globe and place decorative […]
Read More...This is the second update to the Sixth Annual Christmas Ornament Challenge to show all the ornament and videos submitted to date. All videos are in a playlist here. for 2 Mauro Migone 3 Patrick Laperrière ( Pat Lap ) 4 Billy Burt 5 Steve Krumanaker 6 Mauro Migone 7 Thijs Gijbels 8 Walt Wager 9 […]
Read More...This video may be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook. But you’re already here! The Christmas Ornament Challenge is accepting entries through November. Enter yours at on the challenges page. View ornaments submitted this year here. Inside out Christmas ornaments are a challenge for me. The profile of the inside turning is difficult to visualize. […]
Read More...This post may also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, or FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. Inside out Christmas ornaments present a challenge for me. They are tough to visualize due to the interaction of the inside and the outside turning. For this two stave inside out ornament, I started to plan the […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But best right here! In this video, I complete my inside out Christmas ornament. Last week, I turned the body; now I’ll turn the interior tree for display, the finials, and everything else to complete the ornament. Last week, I noted that it could […]
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