This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! We have a special guest for this week’s video. Frank Young is a master woodturner. He will show hand chasing threads in segmented wood for all sorts of projects. Why threads in segmented wood? Usually when someone is chasing threads, they must […]
Read More...The video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! Woodturning a bowl is always a pleasure for me. I am excited to see what can emerge from a block of wood. When I started woodturning, my wood had to be dry. What else was there? As I learned about drying, cracking, […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! This vase is mesquite. I obtained it several months ago from Mark, a viewer from Phoenix, AZ. I turned it green about three months ago. Normally, I cannot trust leaving the pith in the wood. Actually, I did not leave the pith […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best here where you are already! I have dozens of threaded wood faceplates that is use in many different applications. The alternative is a steel faceplate with wood screwed to its face. However, due to the cost of steel faceplates, I would have to be […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! At our club’s Christmas social, I gave away my ornament made as a faux sea urchin. I had promised my wife to make another. However, the process to turn the original was difficult with catastrophic breakage very likely. I struggled to modify […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best? – Right Here! Last week I did an interactive remote demonstration where I turned one of these fun things. I wanted to edit that video and publish it. However, the computer gremlins prevented that approach this time. I had to reshoot the video. […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But it’s best right here! This pear wood comes from a tree that blew down last summer in a micro burst. At that time, I rough turned a large chunk of the wood and sealed it with Bowl Saver. Then, put the wood away to […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best? – Right Here! While redoing some landscape in my yard, I removed an old rose bush including the root ball. This root was a bugger to dig out. When I realized how big it was, I just had to try turning it. I’ve […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here where we are! I have been informed that the original was probably by Luc Deroo. When I saw a similar project in a past issue of American Woodturner, I immediately knew how I would turn this “Thingy”. After turning several projects based […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! While on the topic of limb bowls, I cut down a small dead tree from my yard. I decided to turn yet another style of limb bowl. This one combines some of the emerging bowl concepts with natural edge and limb bowl […]
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