Posts Tagged ‘woodworking’


Deep Hollowed Aspen Vase – Easy With Right Tools

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 […]

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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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Deep Hollowing Green Turned Vase – The Easy Way

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 […]

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Woodturning Inside Out 3 Stave Art Flame

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. […]

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Decorating End Grain With Sorby Tool-Guest Presentation

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 […]

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Woodturning Spalted Sweet Gum Cross Grain Box

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 […]

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DIY Triple Wire Woodburner For Woodturning

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, […]

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Turning Inside Out Vase – Not Solely For Ornaments

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 […]

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Holey Roley Poley Multi-Axis Woodturning

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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Preparing Green Apple Branch For Natural Edge Projects

This is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? – Right Here! In my Spring pruning, I cut a large limb from my apple tree. I hate to waste good wood, especially apple wood. However, apple is very likely to crack and split. So, it has to be treated. I decided to cut […]

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