This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Preparing for this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, this hand bell was inspired by a presentation by Robin Costelle at the Segmented Woodturning Symposium. However, it does deviate from his bell in that it has multiple layers or rings. The wood in […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! For my first entry to this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I chose a traditional globe style ornament with bottom icicle finial. I wanted the globe to be a perfect ellipse similar to a perfect sphere. Of course, a perfect ellipse would […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, why go anywhere else? This piece of elm has been underfoot in my shop for several months. Another club member harvested it some unknown time ago and sealed the ends with latex paint. It feels dry. After rounding, I parted off the top two […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here at the source. Announcing the Seventh Annual Christmas Ornament Challenge. The challenge is open to all crafts, all materials, collaborations, mixed media, whatever. All skill levels may also enter. This year NO video is required. However, if you make a video, we’ll […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I’ve turned many spheres and have combined two techniques to make them perfect without a jig. But at a club demo, I was challenged to turn a hollow sphere. My response – sure. But, here’s the proof. Using the process, I’ve described […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But you’re already here! For this video, I wanted to combine two useful techniques. First, to rough turn a green wood project, seal it, and let it dry. The second, to split a project in half and hollow from the middle out to both ends. […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I turned this dinner plate for our club challenge. Although I thought I had selected rough sawn red oak, it is actually poplar when smoothed out. My eight inch plate is finished with walnut oil so that it could be used for […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! According to Wikipedia, “An egg of Columbus or Columbus’ egg refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the […]
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 […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! I’m extremely disappointed (to say the least) when a bowl cracks. It’s bad enough if it cracks while drying. But it is even worse if it cracks while I’m working on it. In this case, it cracked during sanding. In my […]
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