Archive for May, 2018


Woodturning A Stave Segmented Pencil Cup From Pen Blanks

This video is also uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. This project video is a pencil cup to answer this month’s club challenge. While I could grab a chunk of solid wood, I want to do a segmented work. This time a stave segmentation. My raw material is twelve pen blanks for […]

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Woodturning Essentials – Octagon Method For Perfect Spheres

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! My last video started with turning a perfect sphere then moving on to make it more artsy. However, I received many questions about how to turn a sphere. So, in this video, I’m slowing down and graphically illustrating the sphere turning process. […]

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Woodturning A Perfect Sphere Into A Strata-Sphere

This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here. I am inspired by the great work I saw at the Utah Woodturning Symposium. My way to praise some of the work is to emulate it. Such is the case with this sphere inspired by Vivien Grandoullier from the Instant Gallery. Essentially, […]

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Dressing Up A Plain Small Mouth Bowl

This same video is available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you are already right here! This project is a simple one. I had a block of wood laying around my shop. I think it came from the club wood raffle. It looked rather plain without a lot of figure. Perfect for a dyed bowl. […]

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What’s A Kuksa – Plus Lathe Mounted Belt Sander

This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. This month our club’s challenge was to turn a kuksa. What’s a kuksa? It is a drinking vessel from northern Scandinavia often carved from birch burl. However, I prefer woodturning over carving. My kuksa is from walnut. Since […]

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