Archive for November, 2013


A Stack of Special Donuts For All The Big Ballgames

Phillip from San Antonio sent me a chunk of mesquite. I’ve puzzled over what to make of it. Then I realized that it is playoff and bowl game season. I need refreshments for all the big games. How about a donut. This donut is hollow to reduce its calorie content. I don’t want my friends […]

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A Butternut Squash Recipe With A Special “Turn”

I have a very different recipe for butternut squash.  Select a favorite wood in dimensional lumber form. (I used cherry) Decide the maximum diameter for your squash. (Mine is 4 inches) Calculate a segment length as Length = Diameter x pi / segments. (4 x 3.14159 / 8 = 1.57) Saw segments to length determined […]

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Sharpening On The Road – Portability Revisited

This is a followup to my previous video concerning sharpening tools while away from home base. With that video, I was not happy with that solution due to significant runout of my home built mandrel. I ask for suggestions and received a lot. This video covers the two main categories of suggestions and my current […]

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A Cute Little Natural Edge Bowl From Wet Limb Wood

Carpe Diem. Just after watching a woodturning demo turning a small natural edge bowl from a limb, I happened to need to cut a limb from a juniper tree. Ordinarily, I would have thrown away the wood. But this time, why not turn a bowl similar to what I had just seen demoed? That is […]

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