Woodturning Training Break For Inspiration and Refinement

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Woodturning Training Break For Inspiration and Refinement

By Alan Stratton on Friday, August 4th, 2017 | Comments Off

May also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook. Best right here! I could not take video during the workshop, so here is a summary of the week’s activity. The woodturning workshop: Craft Supplies USA; Intermediate Taught by Kirk DeHeer. Kirk is a practical yet highly skilled turner. There’s a lot I can learn from […]

A Small Emerging Bowl From Spring Pruning

By Alan Stratton on Friday, April 7th, 2017 | 4 Comments

May also be viewed at these links on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! After recently observing a demonstration in a local woodturning club, I had to turn an emerging bowl. This is the best way to hammer home what I observed. Then I can explore alternatives and combine features. In this video, I […]

More Natural Edge From Spring Pruning – Rustic Napkin Rings

By Alan Stratton on Friday, March 31st, 2017 | Comments Off

May also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook – But best right here! In this video I am again using a sucker I had pruned from a hazelnut tree. This time, I’m turning a set of natural edge rustic napkin rings with a stand for their display and storage. This is a set of […]

Woodturning Natural Edge Off Center Bowl

By Alan Stratton on Thursday, August 18th, 2016 | Comments Off

May also be viewed on YouTube and Vimeo – But Best Right Here! Get ready for this year’s Christmas Ornament Woodturning Challenge – Coming November 2016 After seeing a demo at a woodturning club of a large off center bowl, I had to try one myself. At another club meeting, I picked up a bowl […]

Woodturning A Natural Edge Necklace Pendant

By Alan Stratton on Friday, May 27th, 2016 | 2 Comments

May also be viewed on YouTube – But best right here! I enjoyed the 2016 Utah Woodturning Symposium. I plan to soon turn my version of many projects and techniques I saw there. The inspiration for this one is Linda Ferber, who makes wood components to jewelry. This pendant is hazelwood pruned from my back […]

Woodturn Natural Edge Fig Bowl – My Smallest Yet?

By Alan Stratton on Friday, February 20th, 2015 | Comments Off

May also be viewed on YouTube. This is another project from pruning my fig tree. It is a bowl turned from this small about 2.5 inch diameter limb. This project was a challenge due to its size. It is too small to mount in my standard chuck jaws. I have smaller jaws but I do […]

Woodturn Natural Edge Fig Mushroom – Not For Soup

By Alan Stratton on Thursday, February 12th, 2015 | Comments Off

May also be viewed on YouTube. My wife’s sister asked me to turn a mushroom for her. Right now I have cuttings from a fig tree in my front yard. Why not a natural edge mushroom from this fig. Figs and mushrooms both have nice flavors for cooking, why not see how they go together […]

Woodturn Rustic Cedar Natural Edge Coasters

By Alan Stratton on Saturday, January 24th, 2015 | 4 Comments

This project is relatively easy, a great way to practice with natural edge forms without the risk of a bowl. These coasters are wet, freshly harvested, cedar. After slicing a limb into discs, I started them drying with a quick soak in Denatured Alcohol to accelerate the drying process. They had lost about 30% of their […]

Woodturn A Natural Edge Cedar Limb Bowl

By Alan Stratton on Friday, January 2nd, 2015 | Comments Off

I have a lot of wood to clean up from cutting down an Atlas Cedar in my back yard. For this project, I’m using a whole section of limb for a small but deep natural edge bowl. This small bowl is about 6 inches long by 4 inches wide by 3 inches deep. I tried […]

Transforming An Old Fence Post Into A Rustic Fence Post Vase

By Alan Stratton on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 | 11 Comments

I’ve invited Russ Coker from a local club to turn one of his favorite projects, a fence post vase. He salvages old fence posts from Wyoming that are mostly cedar and turns them into a vase. The wood is weathered and very, very irregular. His process is: Mount the wood between centers. Evaluate the wood for features […]

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