Posts Tagged ‘Alan Stratton’


Woodturning Beautiful Burl Bowl From Ugly Wood

For convenience, this video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and YouTube. Where Best? You are already here! I love turned wood bowls. However, the best ones take time. I rough turned this bowl from a box elder burl about eight months ago. Since then, the rough bowl has been drying. It is dry now […]

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Woodturning Perfect Spheres – For Wise Turners

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 […]

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Six Handicap Woodturning – Segment Ring Thread Chasing

This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Please stay right here at As Wood Turns. After receiving comments about deficiencies in power tools preventing viewers from trying to thread segmented thread sets, I decided to handicap myself and try to repeat Frank’s success. Handicaps: Table saw with no jigAn 8 segment ring […]

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Woodturning Sea Urchin Style Multi Axis Ornament

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! At our club’s Christmas social, I gave away my ornament made as a faux sea urchin. I had promised my wife to make another. However, the process to turn the original was difficult with catastrophic breakage very likely. I struggled to modify […]

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Multi Axis Woodturning Virus Free Kiss Thingy

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here where we are! I have been informed that the original was probably by Luc Deroo. When I saw a similar project in a past issue of American Woodturner, I immediately knew how I would turn this “Thingy”. After turning several projects based […]

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Woodturning Limb Bowl As Winged Emerging Bowl

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! While on the topic of limb bowls, I cut down a small dead tree from my yard. I decided to turn yet another style of limb bowl. This one combines some of the emerging bowl concepts with natural edge and limb bowl […]

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Woodturning Limb Bowl With Bird’s Beak

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook.  Best? Right Here! I had a little more of that locust branch from the last video. Why not turn another similar but different bowl – One where I could vary a couple of things and see what came from it. So, here we are. Since […]

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Woodturning Limb Bowl – It Learned A New Trick

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you are already here where best! Generally, I like large diameter trunks for bowl turning. But sometimes, I’m presented with smaller wood that tells me it can be beautiful. I work with what I have. This bowl is from honey locust. Final size is […]

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Woodturning Project Stand – Steam Bent and Multi Axis

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? Right Here! I’ve searched for a long time for a good stand for small projects and Christmas ornaments. This is one of the two best that I’ve seen. However, I will continue my search. This display stand consists of two almost separate projects. The […]

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Woodturning Pierced, Curved Leaf – Lemonade From A Lemon

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here already! After my lampshade disaster, I was about to throw that wood into the fireplace. But after Lauren, a woodturner from our club, shared what he has done after a similar disaster, I decided to try something. This leaf is from the […]

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