This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? Right here! I browsed the web for ideas for a Mother’s Day project. The one that caught my eye was an inside out vase. Perfect. Inside out is fun but moderately challenging. Four square pieces of wood are temporarily fastened together. While there are […]
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. Where is best? Right here already! After turning the solid egg is the last video, I wondered what other types of Easter eggs could I make for my 3D printed Easter Bunny. This Easter egg is hollow for a small treat inside. A rubber hairband […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right HERE! At the Maker Space in the local public library where I was 3D printing another project, I saw a cute rabbit holding a foil wrapped egg. My immediate thought was to have the little bunny hold a wooden egg that I […]
Read More...This video is also uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here at As Wood Turns. The Utah Woodturners club has a summer activity from April through October where we get together at someone’s shop on one Saturday morning each month. This is a great time to observe and share. We’ve fixed lathes, […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right here! This black locust wood came from my brother in Idaho. It was freshly cut. I took it home and promptly rough turned it to a cylinder, then a rough shape for a vase, then parted it in two. Each end was […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already right where you need to be. A mortar and pestle has been on my to-do list for a long time. Finally, I found my “round-2-it”. I did have to look up which piece was the mortar and which was the pestle. It […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But best right here! Why hollow through a tiny hole if you don’t have to. For this long neck vase I hollowed it from the bottom then plugged the hole with matching wood. Watch out for hanging out so far from the spindle. I used […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. – Best Right Here! After I turned a miniature vase from tagua a year ago, a viewer, Terry, gave me a bag of giant tagua nuts at last year’s Utah Woodturning Symposium. I did not know tagua nuts could be this big. I wish I […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. For this project, I’m preparing for a fiend’s daughter to come have a first experience with woodturning. This is a small 5″ vase from semi-dry olive wood finished with beeswax and mineral oil. A small glass insert protects […]
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