This video is also posted on YouTube. I challenge every woodturner to turn a sphere by the end of July. Spheres are an essential skill. If you are a beginner, begin now. If you are experienced, get better now. What kind of sphere? As long as it is or uses a sphere, anything goes. Between […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Why go anywhere else but here! This project video is a second pencil cup to answer this month’s club challenge. After I turned the first one, I felt a pencil cup would be perfect for a Celtic knot. The process I follow does not restrict […]
Read More...This video is also uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. This project video is a pencil cup to answer this month’s club challenge. While I could grab a chunk of solid wood, I want to do a segmented work. This time a stave segmentation. My raw material is twelve pen blanks for […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! My last video started with turning a perfect sphere then moving on to make it more artsy. However, I received many questions about how to turn a sphere. So, in this video, I’m slowing down and graphically illustrating the sphere turning process. […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. I am inspired by the great work I saw at the Utah Woodturning Symposium. My way to praise some of the work is to emulate it. Such is the case with this sphere inspired by Vivien Grandoullier from the Instant Gallery. Essentially, […]
Read More...This same video is available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you are already right here! This project is a simple one. I had a block of wood laying around my shop. I think it came from the club wood raffle. It looked rather plain without a lot of figure. Perfect for a dyed bowl. […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. This month our club’s challenge was to turn a kuksa. What’s a kuksa? It is a drinking vessel from northern Scandinavia often carved from birch burl. However, I prefer woodturning over carving. My kuksa is from walnut. Since […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. This bowl has been in process for seven months – more if you count time from harvest to when I started roughing the wood. When I started turning, my plan was to experiment with a project cut in half and reassembled. My […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I was offered this wormy cottonwood at the club wood raffle. It looked pretty ugly and I could have swapped it for another piece of wood. But, I was curious whether I could turn something from it. It became a challenge piece […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best place? – Right here! My wife asked me to make a bobbin for her wire weaving. Of course, a small 2×3 inch bobbin should be a piece of cake. However, the bobbin requires that 5 cotter pins be set in a circle around the […]
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