Enhanced Bark Edge Flower For Mother’s Day

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Enhanced Bark Edge Flower For Mother’s Day

By Alan Stratton on Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 | 2 Comments

Please view this post here on this page. But, in case of technical difficulties, call a 10 year old for help or view on YouTube or FaceBook. I have turned this style of flower before. However, I had purchased some Cold-Bend Hardwood and thought to use it to enhance my flower. Plus I stabilized the […]

Turning Small, Bark Edge Boxes – From Hazelnut Limbs

By Alan Stratton on Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 | Comments Off

Unless there is a glitch, this page is best for viewing this post. If there is a glitch, this is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I pruned the wood for this project from my backyard several years ago. The limbs were suckers growing from the base. I kept many of them. Some have split […]

A Tale Of Turning Two Bowls – Same Trunk – Opposite Look – Part 1

By Alan Stratton on Friday, June 16th, 2023 | Comments Off

This video post is best viewed here on this page. However, in case of difficulty, it is also available on YouTube and FaceBook. I scored a section of a log sufficient for two bowls. Noticing that the bark is quite tight, I decided that one of them should be a natural or bark edge bowl […]

Cherry Surprise – Woodturning Reject Wood

By Alan Stratton on Saturday, June 11th, 2022 | 8 Comments

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 […]

Crooked Branch – A Wild Ride Woodturning

By Alan Stratton on Friday, June 3rd, 2022 | 2 Comments

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. […]

Woodturning Unique Two Piece Mushroom

By Alan Stratton on Friday, July 9th, 2021 | 4 Comments

In case of difficulty viewing this post, it is also posted on YouTube (Link) and FaceBook (link) Mushrooms are a favorite project for woodturners. In fact, I did a series of posts on mushrooms many years ago. One risk from those projects is the tight intersection between the underside of the cap and the top […]

Woodturning Thin Stem Goblet With ‘Shaggy Dog’ Bark

By Alan Stratton on Friday, July 17th, 2020 | 8 Comments

You are here which is great. In case of difficulty, this video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. The wood for this goblet is unusual. It is birch with a very shaggy bark. It did not leaf out this spring. So, now it is wood for turning. Turning a thin stem on this […]

Woodturning Short Break – Simple Bark Edge Mushrooms

By Alan Stratton on Friday, June 19th, 2020 | 4 Comments

While this video is best viewed right here at As Wood Turns, it is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook Our local club is holding remote demonstrations during this Covid-19 pandemic. Our last member demonstrator, Lauren Gibbs, showed off two versions of mushrooms as part of his series of quick projects. Plus, the president’s […]

Two Natural Edge Bowls – One Up – One Down

By Alan Stratton on Friday, July 26th, 2019 | Comments Off

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here at the best place. At a local club wood exchange, I received two identical slabs of wood. They were quite thin and I wondered what I could do with them. They seemed too thin for a standard bowl. The bark was […]

This Natural Edge Bowl Will Not Tip Over

By Alan Stratton on Friday, July 5th, 2019 | 2 Comments

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here Already! From a club wood exchange I have this piece of wood that I believe is poplar. It seems to be the left over slab from where a bowl blank was cut out. There is a lot of bark but not […]

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