Posts Tagged ‘woodworking’


Design, Print, Then Turn Mixed Media Ornament

This post is best viewed here on this page. In case that someone watered the gremlins, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After checking in an ornament for the challenge by Dan Owens, I wanted to make one similar. His was 3D printed. So, I fired up my computer with OpenSCAD, 3D design […]

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Four Options To Enhance Woodturning Design

This video is best viewed here on this page. However, in case of gremlin attack, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I greatly appreciated a club presentation recently by Kip Christiansen. Kip has been teaching furniture design at Brigham Young University until retiring recently. His topic was design for woodturning. One main point […]

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Turning A Hobbit Hole Ornament For Bilbo

This post is best viewed here on this page. However, in case of gremlin attack, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I was looking at ornaments from the Christmas Ornament Challenge, seeking inspiration. There are many very nice birdhouses. But, what about a hobbit house or hobbit hole. Bilbo needs a home too! […]

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Experimenting With Wave Slices In Segmented Vase

This post is best viewed here on this page. In case of gremlin rampage, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After designing an effective process for Celtic knots on large vessels, I am no experimenting with different application and variations of the process. In this case, three walnut slices at different angles and […]

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Turning And Carving Acorn Candy Box Ornament

This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of gremlins getting loose, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. This project is an ornament for the Christmas Ornament Challenge which is now open. The shell is maple; the cap is walnut. They are joined together with a bayonet style bushing which […]

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Transforming Ugly Duckling Cracked Wood To ???? Ornament

In case of gremlin attack, this is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I received this wood in our club wood exchange raffle. It was so nasty, I almost threw it away. Then, well, I have turned spheres from worse. So, why not a sphere. Once I had a sphere, it was still a cracked […]

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Repairing Cracked Olive Bowl With Ultra Violet Light

In case of a gremlin attack, this video is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I obtained this olive wood on a trip to Phoenix just before the pandemic. I love olive wood but this block had issues. As I roughed it out, it exposed large nasty drying checks and a split area. Since the […]

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Woodturning Scoop Series – Double Scoop

Best place to view this post – right here. If gremlins attack, try YouTube or FaceBook. I am exploring turning various scoops of styles or types. While a double bowl scoop is not that different than a single bowl scoop, it is fun and there are some complications with the handle. This scoop is a […]

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Woodturning Vessel With Lid – Wood From Puerto Rico

This post is best viewed right here on this site. However, in case gremlins attach, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. The Puerto Rican woodturning club sent me the wood for this project after I gave them a zoom (IRD) demonstration earlier this year. They had won the demonstration due to their club […]

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Woodturning Stabilized OSB Into Amazing Vase

This post is best viewed right here. But, in case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Before SWAT, I turned a vase in OSB because I saw such a demonstration on the agenda and wanted to be prepared to ask relevant questions. Greg Stehle’s vase used OSB as flat rings. His […]

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