This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here at the best place. At a local club wood exchange, I received two identical slabs of wood. They were quite thin and I wondered what I could do with them. They seemed too thin for a standard bowl. The bark was […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. However, you’re already here! This pear wood is from a club wood exchange. It is small, smelly, dry, and ugly. Surprise. The grain and color is beautiful. The 5″ bowl is finished with walnut oil and buffed to a shine. Enjoy!
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here Already! From a club wood exchange I have this piece of wood that I believe is poplar. It seems to be the left over slab from where a bowl blank was cut out. There is a lot of bark but not […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! After turning a green chestnut bowl a few weeks ago in a style new to me, I had the chance to have feedback from Paul Russell, who had demonstrated it. I wanted to know why the green wood had not warped into […]
Read More...This video is also posted at YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – Where Best? Right Here! This piece of padauk has been bothering me. It is an offcut from a previous project. I’d like to use it for a segmented project but it is not enough. Finally, I decided to turn a small plate. The padauk […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I took a training class at Craft Supplies almost two years ago. During the class, I did a couple of coring projects with the Kelton McNaughton Center Saver System. At that time, I cored two sets of matching bowls from sycamore. I […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. – Best Right Here! After I turned a miniature vase from tagua a year ago, a viewer, Terry, gave me a bag of giant tagua nuts at last year’s Utah Woodturning Symposium. I did not know tagua nuts could be this big. I wish I […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here. I want to turn this green chestnut to a somewhat different style that I saw recently at a club demo. This bowl does not require a constant wall thickness. Since it is green, I expect it to warp and I hope is […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, why go anywhere else? This piece of elm has been underfoot in my shop for several months. Another club member harvested it some unknown time ago and sealed the ends with latex paint. It feels dry. After rounding, I parted off the top two […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I turned this dinner plate for our club challenge. Although I thought I had selected rough sawn red oak, it is actually poplar when smoothed out. My eight inch plate is finished with walnut oil so that it could be used for […]
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