This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right here! After turning my Valentine’s heart, I decided I needed to refine my process for this type of project. Thank you for all your suggestions. The differences are a bandsaw sled; a collet; hollowing the heart. Key to the bandsaw sled are […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! After turning a green chestnut bowl a few weeks ago in a style new to me, I had the chance to have feedback from Paul Russell, who had demonstrated it. I wanted to know why the green wood had not warped into […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right HERE! My brother came for a visit and wanted me to demonstrate woodturning a box. I would rather have coached him to turn the box. However, that is all he had time for. An end grain box is always a good project with […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! At last fall’s Segmented Woodturning Symposium, I had a discussion with Joe Schlawin. He suggested that acrylic plastic could be used to waterproof certain woodturnings. I needed to know how a solid sheet of acrylic plastic could waterproof the inside of […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo and FaceBook. Except that you’re already here! This is an early release for Valentine’s Day. I turned this hazelwood heart for my wife. It is turned from a 7/8″ cylinder which is then sliced at a steep angle. The two parts are then rotated and reglued to […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already right where you need to be. A mortar and pestle has been on my to-do list for a long time. Finally, I found my “round-2-it”. I did have to look up which piece was the mortar and which was the pestle. It […]
Read More...This video is also posted at YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – Where Best? Right Here! This piece of padauk has been bothering me. It is an offcut from a previous project. I’d like to use it for a segmented project but it is not enough. Finally, I decided to turn a small plate. The padauk […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I took a training class at Craft Supplies almost two years ago. During the class, I did a couple of coring projects with the Kelton McNaughton Center Saver System. At that time, I cored two sets of matching bowls from sycamore. I […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But best right here! Why hollow through a tiny hole if you don’t have to. For this long neck vase I hollowed it from the bottom then plugged the hole with matching wood. Watch out for hanging out so far from the spindle. I used […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. – Best Right Here! After I turned a miniature vase from tagua a year ago, a viewer, Terry, gave me a bag of giant tagua nuts at last year’s Utah Woodturning Symposium. I did not know tagua nuts could be this big. I wish I […]
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