If you have difficulty viewing this video here, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Best right here. Before the pandemic during a trip to the Phoenix area to visit a son, a viewer offered me some mesquite and olive wood. The wood was recently cut down. I hauled several chunks home and got […]
Read More...In case of system glitches, this video is also posted to YouTube and FaceBook. Best viewed right here. The inspiration for this project comes from Theo Haralmapou over a year ago during an online symposium. This was reinforced at SWAT by Donna Frazier. This star is turned on three axes and therefore requires the preparation […]
Read More...This post is best viewed right here. But, in case of technical difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Our club is preparing to support the Beads of Courage program. Beads of Courage works in participating hospitals with children who are seriously ill. At each significant procedure, the child received an additional bead […]
Read More...In case of technical difficulties, this post is also uploaded to YouTube and FaceBook. But it is better right here on this page. For this project I drew inspiration from a demonstration at the Rocky Mounting Woodturning Symposium and combined it with a monthly club challenge. The symposium demonstration by John Giem inlaid solid wood […]
Read More...I love this ornament inspired by sea urchin ornaments. Instead of the shell of a sea creature, it is turned from almost any wood. This one started as a 2.4″ diameter sphere turned using the octagon method. Nothing else gets me closer to a perfect sphere as quickly. Then after some indexing, it is mounted […]
Read More...In case of difficulty, this video is also available on YouTube and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Inspired by fellow club members, this project is to turn a cube into a bowl. For this style bowl, first a blank must be prepared as a perfect cube of any size. My project uses a laminated block […]
Read More...This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of technical difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Ten years ago, I failed to turn a tippy top. What is a tippy top? When a tippy top spins, it spins on its axis. But then, the turning axis gradually shifts until […]
Read More...This post is best viewed right here. However, in case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After observing a good demonstration, I like to turn my own project using the same or similar techniques that I observed. However, I also make it my own using techniques that I have perfected. In […]
Read More...Please view this post here on this page. But if there is a problem, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook After last year’s Ornament Challenge, Paul sent me a kit for me to make an ornament similar to one he had submitted. It took me a while to get to it. But now […]
Read More...In case of difficulty this video is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I was happy to be given this block of fresh, green chestnut already slabbed and rounded. It was ready to turn. I had great plans for it: maybe a calabash bowl; maybe a hollow form. The initial turning for the outside bottom […]
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