Archive for the ‘Ornaments’ Category


Woodturning Simple Quick Ornament From Scrap

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? – Right Here! This Christmas ornament is simple and quick. It is made from leftovers and a tropical pen blank. The round pieces are padauk. The disk is ash. It is finished with shellac friction polish. It is about 2.5″ by 4.5″. Enjoy!

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Christmas Ornament Challenge – Viewer Review

This video is also posted on YouTube. Here are the ornaments in the 2018 Christmas Ornament Challenge. This is the opportunity for viewers to pick their favorites. Please express your favorites in high to low order separated by commas such as 1,2,3,4,5. For voting purposed, it will be easier for us if you vote via […]

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Woodturning Planetary Ornament – Insert Fun

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? – right here! This one is my daughter’s favorite ornament of all my recent ornaments. It used a piece of scrap walnut and other left over thin wood strips to create random angle slices in the body. This I call my “Saturn” style. For […]

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Segmented Woodturning – Not A Plain Christmas Ornament

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 […]

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Woodturning Christmas Hand Bell – Laminated and Segmented

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 […]

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How To Turn Perfect Golden Mean Ellipse Christmas Ornament

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 […]

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Recycled Wood Snowman Offers Season’s Greetings

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 […]

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Woodturning Laminated Christmas Ornament

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. […]

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Woodturning Christmas Ornament Using Infinite Axis Chuck

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 […]

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2017 Christmas Ornament Challenge Update #2

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 […]

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