Posts Tagged ‘woodworking’


Christmas Ornament Challenge 2018 Announcement

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here at the source. Announcing the Seventh Annual Christmas Ornament Challenge. The challenge is open to all crafts, all materials, collaborations, mixed media, whatever. All skill levels may also enter. This year NO video is required. However, if you make a video, we’ll […]

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How To Turn Perfect Hollow Sphere – No Jig

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I’ve turned many spheres and have combined two techniques to make them perfect without a jig. But at a club demo, I was challenged to turn a hollow sphere. My response – sure. But, here’s the proof. Using the process, I’ve described […]

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How To Hollow A Tall Thin Cherry Vase

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But you’re already here! For this video, I wanted to combine two useful techniques. First, to rough turn a green wood project, seal it, and let it dry. The second, to split a project in half and hollow from the middle out to both ends. […]

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Poplar Dinner Plate For Club Challenge

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I turned this dinner plate for our club challenge. Although I thought I had selected rough sawn red oak, it is actually poplar when smoothed out. My eight inch plate is finished with walnut oil so that it could be used for […]

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This “Columbus Egg” Stands Up When It Spins

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! According to Wikipedia, “An egg of Columbus or Columbus’ egg refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact. The expression refers to an apocryphal story in which Christopher Columbus, having been told that discovering the […]

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DIY Flange Nut Alternative With Set Screw

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I asked other woodturners in my club how to solve a particular problem. Several had machining background. Their recommendation was to obtain a flange nut then drill and tap for a set screw in the side. Essentially, a flange nut incorporates a […]

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Woodturning Two Bowls, One Disaster, Two Final Results

This video  is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! I’m extremely disappointed (to say the least) when a bowl cracks. It’s bad enough if it cracks while drying. But it is even worse if it cracks while I’m working on it. In this case, it cracked during sanding. In my […]

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Woodturning Threaded Cherry Pod From Green Wood

This video  is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! I rough turned this cherry five years ago. At that time, it was freshly harvested. I turned the cylinder, cut tenons on both ends, and parted it in half. Then I had some good hollowing practice as I hollowed both pieces […]

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Woodturning Figured Maple Rough to Finished Bowl

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you are here already! I rough turned this bowl in April of this year. I had intended to show the video for the rough turning. Alas, when the time came, the video could not be found. That aside, this maple was green or wet […]

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Woodturning Cable Keeper – Simple Look – ?? Execution

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But why go anywhere else – You’re already here. I had an idea to make a cable keeper – the doodad that manages computer cables. But what is a wood turned cable keeper? First decision is to make the hole big enough for an electrical […]

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