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 […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here, aren’t you? I had not completed a triple inside out turning for quite a while. So, after seeing Dale Dallon demonstrate an inside out flame, I had to jump back into it and incorporate the refinements I saw in his process. […]
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 Already! After a recent demonstration, I decided to turn my own cross grain box. The wood I had available was smaller than that in the demonstration. Yet, I find the spalting in this sweet gum to be quite pretty. My box […]
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, […]
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