This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best? Right here of course! My nephew is getting married. What better wedding gift than a beautiful place to put wedding rings? They’ll always know where they are when not on a finger. However, I suspect my nephew’s wife with have most use for […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! “Le PicBois” has a challenge to turn a goblet within five minutes. While I don’t like to turn as a race, I do like challenges. This one reminds me of the egg cup race at the Utah Woodturning Symposium. I’ve participated for […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – Best right here at As Wood Turns! Part of my childhood was spent on a fruit farm. We grew a lot of apples – mostly red ones. For this project, I decided to turn an apple. Too bad it is from maple wood. One […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Why go anywhere else but here! This project video is a second pencil cup to answer this month’s club challenge. After I turned the first one, I felt a pencil cup would be perfect for a Celtic knot. The process I follow does not restrict […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...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. […]
Read More...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 […]
Read More...This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best place? – Right here! My wife asked me to make a bobbin for her wire weaving. Of course, a small 2×3 inch bobbin should be a piece of cake. However, the bobbin requires that 5 cotter pins be set in a circle around the […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, or FaceBook. But you are already here – stick around. For some time now, my project to do list has included a Roman canteen since I like multi-axis turning. Still, I like to be practical. A Roman canteen is not practical compared to any modern canteen. […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, or FaceBook. Best right here! I have seen double vases. Now it is time to turn one myself. In preparation, I made an internal template and an external template for a circle. For the internal template, I cut a circle for my desired size from scrap […]
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