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 […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! At a wood exchange I inherited a limb of aspen, not in great shape but worth turning and trying out my new deep hollowing system. The vase is 7 inches tall and 5 inches in diameter finished with walnut oil and a […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Recently, I’ve experimented with different ways to turn a small hollow vase without doing the hollowing through the small neck of the vase. This is one of the best options. I originally rough turned this vase about a year ago. At […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here, aren’t you? I had not completed a triple inside out turning for quite a while. So, after seeing Dale Dallon demonstrate an inside out flame, I had to jump back into it and incorporate the refinements I saw in his process. […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Vladimer Swartsman, a fellow member of our local woodturning club consented to sharing his experience decorating end grain with a Sorby Spiraling and Texturing tool. He shows how to sharpen the tool and how to position the tool for a variety […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here Already! After a recent demonstration, I decided to turn my own cross grain box. The wood I had available was smaller than that in the demonstration. Yet, I find the spalting in this sweet gum to be quite pretty. My box […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best – Right Here! At a recent Saturday gathering of local woodturners, we discussed wire wood burner alternatives. I’ve used a commercial set for many years but they then to get kinked up; burn me; and are hard to find. After our initial discussion, […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? Right here! I browsed the web for ideas for a Mother’s Day project. The one that caught my eye was an inside out vase. Perfect. Inside out is fun but moderately challenging. Four square pieces of wood are temporarily fastened together. While there are […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Barbara Dill’s book on multi-axis woodturning is the inspiration for this project. As I looked through the photos, I said to myself, “That can’t be that hard, it’s just a sphere and some holes”. But a doughnut chuck I made several […]
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