This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! During my spring pruning, I cut off a large limb from an apple tree. At that time, I cut the limb down into sections of varying lengths and varying diameters. Leaving the natural bark, I turned tenons on each end and […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here already! After turning a four stave vase, then a three stave art object, I was challenged to turn a two stave heart. Wood preparation is much simpler. But undercutting the upper lobes was not. My band saw did not provide a very […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Right here is where it is best. After attending the American Association of Woodturners Symposium, I’m inspired to start turning beyond round. One particular source of inspiration is Max Brosi and his multi-axis turnings. While this turning from pear is far from one of his, […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here at the best place. At a local club wood exchange, I received two identical slabs of wood. They were quite thin and I wondered what I could do with them. They seemed too thin for a standard bowl. The bark was […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. I remember my mother helping to thread a needle. It was the same problem whether it was thread or yard. A tiny needle hole, a big thread. Now with more experienced eyes, it is even more challenging. Why […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! This pear wood is from a club wood exchange. It is small, smelly, dry, and ugly. Surprise. The grain and color is beautiful. The 5″ bowl is finished with walnut oil and buffed to a shine. Enjoy!
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here Already! From a club wood exchange I have this piece of wood that I believe is poplar. It seems to be the left over slab from where a bowl blank was cut out. There is a lot of bark but not […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! At a wood exchange I inherited a limb of aspen, not in great shape but worth turning and trying out my new deep hollowing system. The vase is 7 inches tall and 5 inches in diameter finished with walnut oil and a […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! I went out to my woodshed and spotted an old apricot crotch that I have been saving “for a rainy day”. The wood is worse off for the time that it has been taking up space in my shed. I decided […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Recently, I’ve experimented with different ways to turn a small hollow vase without doing the hollowing through the small neck of the vase. This is one of the best options. I originally rough turned this vase about a year ago. At […]
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