Posts Tagged ‘wood bowl’


This Pruned Limb Did Not Go to The Dump

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best – Right Here of course! While I was doing some fall pruning, I cut a small to medium limb off of a crab apple tree. As I prepared the wood to go into the garbage bin, the limb presented itself. Exactly how, I […]

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Woodturning Mesquite Bowl – Back To Basics

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you are already here. Oh how I love to green turn a wood bowl. This is what attracted me to woodturning in the first place – I wanted to turn wood bowls. Other turning projects are great and interesting but I still love turning […]

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Woodturning Wave Bowl With Hollow Pedestal

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! When turning wet wood for a wavy shallow bowl, I’ve been concerned for the pedestal part of the bowl. This large, thick piece of wood could be prone to checking and cracking as it dries. So, for this bowl, I decided […]

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Woodturning Basic Bowl – Never As Simple As It Should Be

This Video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Right here at As Wood Turns is where it is best! This piece of wood came from the club wood exchange. Someone had started to turn it wet but stopped and gave it away. Now it has set around for long enough that it is […]

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Woodturning Green Olive Into Figured Bowl

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here already! Months ago, at a club wood exchange, I received a small block of olive. I was excited because I think olive is a very petty wood to turn. The wood felt dry, but as I started to turn it, I discovered […]

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Surprisingly Pretty Small Bowl From Pear

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! This pear wood is from a club wood exchange. It is small, smelly, dry, and ugly. Surprise. The grain and color is beautiful. The 5″ bowl is finished with walnut oil and buffed to a shine. Enjoy!

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This Natural Edge Bowl Will Not Tip Over

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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Fractured Apricot Bowl – Turn At Your Own Risk

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! I went out to my woodshed and spotted an old apricot crotch that I have been saving “for a rainy day”. The wood is worse off for the time that it has been taking up space in my shed. I decided […]

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Woodturning Cross Grain Bowl With Matching Lid

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, why go anywhere else? This piece of elm has been underfoot in my shop for several months. Another club member harvested it some unknown time ago and sealed the ends with latex paint. It feels dry. After rounding, I parted off the top two […]

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Woodturning Figured Maple Rough to Finished Bowl

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you are here already! I rough turned this bowl in April of this year. I had intended to show the video for the rough turning. Alas, when the time came, the video could not be found. That aside, this maple was green or wet […]

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