In case of viewing difficulty, this post may also be viewed on YouTube and FaceBook. I thank my daughter for the wood for this video. She cut down a Russian olive tree from her yard. It was smelly and poorly located. It was not bowl size-I decided to try for a hollow form from the […]
Read More...This video is best viewed right here on this page. However, in case of difficulty, it is also available on YouTube and FaceBook. When I turn solid wood for a bowl, it most often is from urban forestry, wood that comes from private yards and orchards. The best wood is fresh, green or wet, wood. […]
Read More...This post is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After a friend called me with a question about turning a scoop, that prompted me to review my past videos where I turned scoops. It has been a while. So it is time to […]
Read More...This post is best viewed right here on this page. In case of system difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. For this project, I am inspired by a weird segmented vase I turned several years ago. In that case, I sawed completed segmented rings at an angle. Then glued the rings into […]
Read More...This video is best viewed on this page. But, in case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I show my current process to create segmented rings. I used to glue rings all at onece or as half rings using band clamps. However, I have now adopted a gluing […]
Read More...This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I turn a near reject half log of cherry. The problem was that this wood was urban cherry with large branches all over. In this case, there were two old branches […]
Read More...This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I turn a project following the example of a fellow club member, Paul Russell. Paul will be presenting at the AAW symposium in Chattanoogo. The wood is a crooked apple branch. […]
Read More...This video is best viewed right here on this page. However, in case of difficulty it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I discard the process recently used on other wood goblets for a segmented goblet. Since I can build and turn a segmented goblet in sections, I did not have […]
Read More...This post is best viewed on this page. However, in case of technical issues, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I refine the process recently used on green wood goblets and a dry wood goblet. In the dry goblet, I had intended to follow the new process exactly but spaced […]
Read More...This post is best viewed on this page. However, in case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this video, I transfer the process used on recent green wood goblet to a dry wood goblet. What is different? Usually, the turning order is: Bowl, stem, foot. However, with the recent experience, […]
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