For convenience, this video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best place? – You are already here! Whenever I see someone promote a sphere jig, a conflict boils up in me. On one hand, I respect someone who can create a good jig and appreciate the apparatus. On the other hand, a sphere […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! We have a special guest for this week’s video. Frank Young is a master woodturner. He will show hand chasing threads in segmented wood for all sorts of projects. Why threads in segmented wood? Usually when someone is chasing threads, they must […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best here where you are already! I have dozens of threaded wood faceplates that is use in many different applications. The alternative is a steel faceplate with wood screwed to its face. However, due to the cost of steel faceplates, I would have to be […]
Read More...I like to make my own wire hangers for my Christmas ornaments. In my view, they are a much better alternative to screw eyelets. Materials Copper wire (silvered, copper, black, etc) 18 to 24 gauge available from craft stores and some hardware stores. Drill bit or transfer punch – size to taste Jacobs chuck or […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Vladimer Swartsman, a fellow member of our local woodturning club consented to sharing his experience decorating end grain with a Sorby Spiraling and Texturing tool. He shows how to sharpen the tool and how to position the tool for a variety […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best – Right Here! At a recent Saturday gathering of local woodturners, we discussed wire wood burner alternatives. I’ve used a commercial set for many years but they then to get kinked up; burn me; and are hard to find. After our initial discussion, […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! At last fall’s Segmented Woodturning Symposium, I had a discussion with Joe Schlawin. He suggested that acrylic plastic could be used to waterproof certain woodturnings. I needed to know how a solid sheet of acrylic plastic could waterproof the inside of […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. My wife convinced me to purchase a SawStop table saw. I guess she wants me to keep all my fingers. My previous saw was a vintage Craftsman table saw. Years ago, I had purchased an Incra rip fence […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. I appreciate my OneWay live center. It is well made and a good design. The design enable me to tap other items to enhance its capabilities. In this video, I make a finial steady that mounts to the live center and keeps thin finials from […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I asked other woodturners in my club how to solve a particular problem. Several had machining background. Their recommendation was to obtain a flange nut then drill and tap for a set screw in the side. Essentially, a flange nut incorporates a […]
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