This video is also posted to YouTube – What go there when you’re already here? Results are complete for the 2018 Christmas Ornament Challenge. Finalists are: # Maker Title 2 Eli Polite Expert Impossible 69 Pedro Trinidad Novice Tres Reyes Magos 9 Jim Beckwith Confident Carved Cherry Sea Urchin Ornament 68 Gene Dellinger Novice […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? – Right Here! This Christmas ornament is simple and quick. It is made from leftovers and a tropical pen blank. The round pieces are padauk. The disk is ash. It is finished with shellac friction polish. It is about 2.5″ by 4.5″. Enjoy!
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube. Here are the ornaments in the 2018 Christmas Ornament Challenge. This is the opportunity for viewers to pick their favorites. Please express your favorites in high to low order separated by commas such as 1,2,3,4,5. For voting purposed, it will be easier for us if you vote via […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. I appreciate my OneWay live center. It is well made and a good design. The design enable me to tap other items to enhance its capabilities. In this video, I make a finial steady that mounts to the live center and keeps thin finials from […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best? – Right here! I’ve been planning the cornucopia for over a year, letting the design evolve until I could take it on. It is a long project because I wanted it large enough to be able to put fruits inside. This cornucopia is […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best? – right here! This one is my daughter’s favorite ornament of all my recent ornaments. It used a piece of scrap walnut and other left over thin wood strips to create random angle slices in the body. This I call my “Saturn” style. For […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! What do you do with leftover wood? How about when you worked a lot to make a laminated blank? In this case I had to make additional segmented rings to have enough for the globe of the ornament. It is traditional […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! When I received this block of figured poplar at our club’s wood raffle, I immediately thought, Box based on its size and grain orientation. However, as I started turning and seeing the amazing grain patterns, the wood talked then screamed at me, […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Preparing for this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, this hand bell was inspired by a presentation by Robin Costelle at the Segmented Woodturning Symposium. However, it does deviate from his bell in that it has multiple layers or rings. The wood in […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! For my first entry to this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I chose a traditional globe style ornament with bottom icicle finial. I wanted the globe to be a perfect ellipse similar to a perfect sphere. Of course, a perfect ellipse would […]
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