Archive for June, 2013


Pueblo Indian Wedding Vase

A gift for my parents 70th wedding anniversary. This vase is 6″ in diameter and ~7″ tall. The base is walnut; the spouts and finial are maple. It is finished with sanding sealer and walnut oil. Sorry, no video on this one YET.

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Turn A Perfect Wood Sphere Or Ball – No Expensive Jig

One project during a week long woodturning class a few years ago was a wood ball using a jamb chuck. I failed miserably to get the ball smooth. It ended up very rough and out of round. With this failure, I feared being able to make a good ball. Since then, I’ve looked for a […]

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Clean Up Time For Your Lathe’s Morse Taper

On my lathe, I don’t think about cleaning the inside of the spindle or tail stock, but I should. Gunk can build up in the morse taper of these areas and throw off how well your drive and tail centers seat, center, and hold your work. The gunk can also cause damage to these tools. […]

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Turning An Eccentric Or Off Axis Wood Goblet

In this video, I try my hand again to turn an eccentric goblet. I’ll turn the eccentric stem separately from the cup and the base just to keep things a little easier. The stem is 2×2″ maple about 6″ long. I started turning with the axis running almost corner to corner. Then as I finished […]

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Easy DIY Tenon Cutters

I cut tenons regularly to join different pieces of a project together. They’re a common element but I really hate it when I cut one too small. The flip side is stopping the lathe so often to creap up on the perfect size. Many times I’ve used a open end wrench to help size. But […]

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