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! 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 Already! This project is a crooked branch I cut from a crab apple tree. I’ve been watching out for such a limb following a demonstration by Paul Russell at our club meeting. It is kind of like a multi-axis turning because the […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here where you are! After turning the “Ribbed and Holey” form recently, I received several suggestions that it could be a Christmas Ornament. And, the Christmas Ornament Challenge is open right now. So, I thought how to scale the down to a size […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best – Right Here of course! While I was doing some fall pruning, I cut a small to medium limb off of a crab apple tree. As I prepared the wood to go into the garbage bin, the limb presented itself. Exactly how, I […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, and Vimeo. Best Right Here! This project is my third where I am emulating Max Brosi after seeing his demonstrations at the the AAW symposium last summer in Raleigh, North Carolina. The other projects were his octahedron and his whale bone. Each of the three projects starts with a […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you are already here. Oh how I love to green turn a wood bowl. This is what attracted me to woodturning in the first place – I wanted to turn wood bowls. Other turning projects are great and interesting but I still love turning […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! When turning wet wood for a wavy shallow bowl, I’ve been concerned for the pedestal part of the bowl. This large, thick piece of wood could be prone to checking and cracking as it dries. So, for this bowl, I decided […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. After seeing Pascal Oudet from France at the AAW symposium demonstrate, I came home to try it myself. I hoped to replicate the look and feel of his project. Pascal also sand blasts and bleaches many of his […]
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