Posts Tagged ‘woodworking’


Helping Maple Firewood Achieve Its Life Purpose

This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, or FaceBook – Best right here. When my brother came to visit and to turn a people feeder, the chunk of maple he brought did not make it into the people feeder. Yet, it had some unique characteristics, particularly a knob where wood had grown over […]

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Woodturning A People Feeder – Feeders Are Not Only For Birds

This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. As I noted in the last video, my brother came to visit and brought his agenda – to turn a “people feeder”. The wood he brought did not work out. So, we used what I believe is gum. A people feeder dispenses candy from […]

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Maple Firewood Bowl – This Ugly Duckling Is Not A Swan

This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. My brother came to visit and brought his agenda – to turn a “people feeder” from a piece of big leaf maple he salvaged from his firewood. The people feeder has potential but what about this firewood. The wood had some character like a […]

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Kinetic Art – Don’t Let Glass Have All The Fun

This video is also available via YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! After seeing a decorative glass item at a craft store, I had to try to make a similar wood item. The original was a hexagon, mine is a round. The original was glass, mine is wood. Mine can roll around. I’m not […]

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Recycled Wood Snowman Offers Season’s Greetings

This video is also on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. At our last woodturning club meeting, I won a chunk of wood in our raffle. It was a mystery wood salvage from a members job from discarded packing material. What do I do with a short piece of 4×4 with drying checks. In the Christmas Ornament […]

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Woodturning Multi Axis Christmas Gift

This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – May as well stay right here. I asked my wife for a Christmas project. Her response was to turn a lid for fancy glass jar for a Christmas gift. The jar could contain candy, goodies or many other thoughtful items. That was a good […]

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Woodturning Laminated Christmas Ornament

This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. But you’re here already where it is best! While wrapping up this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I wanted to make one more Christmas ornament. For this ornament, I used left over laminations from a rolling pin projects and oriented the layers on a diagonal. […]

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Woodturning Christmas Ornament Using Infinite Axis Chuck

This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Place? Right Here! The Christmas Ornament Challenge is accepting entries through November. Enter yours at www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges/. For this project, I decided to do something different. Instead of a hollow globe with finials, I decided to substitute a disk for the globe and place decorative […]

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2017 Christmas Ornament Challenge Update #2

This is the second update to the Sixth Annual Christmas Ornament Challenge to show all the ornament and videos submitted to date. All videos are in a playlist here. for 2 Mauro Migone 3 Patrick Laperrière ( Pat Lap ) 4 Billy Burt 5 Steve Krumanaker 6 Mauro Migone 7 Thijs Gijbels 8 Walt Wager 9 […]

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Woodturning Inside Out Open End Christmas Ornament With LED

This video may be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook. But you’re already here! The Christmas Ornament Challenge is accepting entries through November. Enter yours at on the challenges page. View ornaments submitted this year here. Inside out Christmas ornaments are a challenge for me. The profile of the inside turning is difficult to visualize. […]

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