This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best of all is right here! When I first started woodturning, I wanted to turn bowls – I still do. I’m always amazed at the color, figure, and shape that results. Often, the shape evolves. This bowl is pear from a neighbor’s ornamental tree that […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! After seeing Dave’s demonstration of a salturn or volcano salt shaker, I remembered one I made over seven years ago. You can view that video,“Woodturning An Unusual Salt Shaker in Maple” at this link. I felt inspired to turn a new salturn just […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best of all – Right Here. After turning a bowl from mesquite a couple of months ago, I noted that I cannot obtain mesquite regularly. Subsequently, Mark from Phoenix, AZ offered me a bunch of mesquite. So, here is another bowl from mesquite with more […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! This video combines three elements: a cross grain box; a laminated box lid; multi-axis turning. The box portion is 3.5 inches diameter hard maple turned with a cross grain orientation. That means the grain is running perpendicular to the turning axis. A […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! Last year after completing my spring pruning, I had an apple limb that I cut in short segments and bored out the center including the pith. They’ve been drying since then. My video for that is “Preparing Green Apple Branch For Natural […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! After receiving this trunk of fresh aspen at the club wood raffle, Dave suggested that I turn a lampshade. I turned a lampshade several years ago but had resolved to avoid turning another until I had completed a deep hollowing rig. […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! My sister asked me to turn several burnishing tools for her quilting. She is an avid quilter. Why not? These are approximate 9 inches long with one end having a slant flat end. Both ends could be used to press a seam, […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here. What to do with a pretty piece of wood with an old rusty nail in it? Turn a bowl, of course. But avoid the nail. The wood is spalted box elder. Someone drove a nail into the tree. The tree grew […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Why go anywhere else but here! After turning several projects where I mimicked Max Brosi turning that I saw him demo, I decided to try a take off. This is based on his Octahedron which is named for the octagon used early in its turning. […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. This block of ash was freshly cut last June when I received it in my club wood exchange. I love turning fresh wet wood – except for the part where I have to wait for it to dry. Well, I turned it […]
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