Posts Tagged ‘lathe’


Safety Second – My Close Encounter With Tablesaw

In case of difficulty in viewing this post, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Despite using a SawStop table saw, I recently accidentially let my thumb contact the saw blade. I had already turned the saw off but it was still coasting and had not stopped. The SawStop cartridge fired and stopped the […]

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Woodturning Hollow Form Vase From Wet Russian Olive

In case of viewing difficulty, this post may also be viewed on YouTube and FaceBook. I thank my daughter for the wood for this video. She cut down a Russian olive tree from her yard. It was smelly and poorly located. It was not bowl size-I decided to try for a hollow form from the […]

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Woodturning From Tree To Finished Bowl

This video is best viewed right here on this page. However, in case of difficulty, it is also available on YouTube and FaceBook. When I turn solid wood for a bowl, it most often is from urban forestry, wood that comes from private yards and orchards. The best wood is fresh, green or wet, wood. […]

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Woodturning Multi-Axis Single Piece Wood Scoop

This post is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After a friend called me with a question about turning a scoop, that prompted me to review my past videos where I turned scoops. It has been a while. So it is time to […]

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Woodturning Drunken Segmented Vase

This post is best viewed right here on this page. In case of system difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. For this project, I am inspired by a weird segmented vase I turned several years ago. In that case, I sawed completed segmented rings at an angle. Then glued the rings into […]

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Simpler, Easier, Self-Correcting Process To Create Segment Rings

This video is best viewed on this page. But, in case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I show my current process to create segmented rings. I used to glue rings all at onece or as half rings using band clamps. However, I have now adopted a gluing […]

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Cherry Surprise – Woodturning Reject Wood

This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I turn a near reject half log of cherry. The problem was that this wood was urban cherry with large branches all over. In this case, there were two old branches […]

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Crooked Branch – A Wild Ride Woodturning

This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I turn a project following the example of a fellow club member, Paul Russell. Paul will be presenting at the AAW symposium in Chattanoogo. The wood is a crooked apple branch. […]

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More Fun With Goblets – WoodTurn Segmented Goblet

This video is best viewed right here on this page. However, in case of difficulty it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I discard the process recently used on other wood goblets for a segmented goblet. Since I can build and turn a segmented goblet in sections, I did not have […]

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Refined – Process To Woodturn Dry Wood Goblet

This post is best viewed on this page. However, in case of technical issues, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I refine the process recently used on green wood goblets and a dry wood goblet. In the dry goblet, I had intended to follow the new process exactly but spaced […]

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