Posts Tagged ‘woodworking’


Easter Egg Box For My Easter Bunny Egg Cache

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Enjoy! To complete my Easter Bunny’s egg cache, I’ve been working up in complexity from a solid egg to a hollowed paper joint egg, and now to an egg box This Easter egg is hollow for a small treat inside. A […]

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Another Easter Egg (Or Puzzle) For The Easter Bunny

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where is best? Right here already! After turning the solid egg is the last video, I wondered what other types of Easter eggs could I make for my 3D printed Easter Bunny. This Easter egg is hollow for a small treat inside. A rubber hairband […]

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This Easter Bunny Brings Sweet Chocolate or Wood Eggs

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right HERE! At the Maker Space in the local public library where I was 3D printing another project, I saw a cute rabbit holding a foil wrapped egg. My immediate thought was to have the little bunny hold a wooden egg that I […]

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Woodturning Wig Stand For Cancer Patients

This video is also uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here at As Wood Turns. The Utah Woodturners club has a summer activity from April through October where we get together at someone’s shop on one Saturday morning each month. This is a great time to observe and share. We’ve fixed lathes, […]

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From Green Firewood to Vase – Deep Hollowing Wet Wood

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right here! This black locust wood came from my brother in Idaho. It was freshly cut. I took it home and promptly rough turned it to a cylinder, then a rough shape for a vase, then parted it in two. Each end was […]

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Revisit Woodturning Heart For My Valentine Plus Collet & Jig

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 […]

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Woodturning Green Chestnut Bowl – Stitched & Revisited

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 […]

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Woodturning Basic Skill Demo Box With Near Suction Fit

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 […]

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A DIY Approach To Waterproof Wood

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 […]

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Woodturning Heart For My Valentine Plus A Collet Flop

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 […]

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