This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. May as well stay right here. I do not currently do custom woodturning projects for others. So when a viewer approached me for an advanced Tai Chi ball, I said no. But nothing stops me from showing how it is done. He would have […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. All the same – best right here. When I see a good demonstration, I have to try it myself. That is the case here for a tagua nut. The demonstrator was Clive Christiansen. He has turned hundreds of tagua nuts. Tagua nuts used to […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here where you are. It’s been a while since I have turned a goblet. A piece of ash from our club wood raffle seems perfect. But there are issues to be dealt with. The major issue is the length of wood hanging […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. As I noted in the last video, my brother came to visit and brought his agenda – to turn a “people feeder”. The wood he brought did not work out. So, we used what I believe is gum. A people feeder dispenses candy from […]
Read More...This video is also available via YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! After seeing a decorative glass item at a craft store, I had to try to make a similar wood item. The original was a hexagon, mine is a round. The original was glass, mine is wood. Mine can roll around. I’m not […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – May as well stay right here. I asked my wife for a Christmas project. Her response was to turn a lid for fancy glass jar for a Christmas gift. The jar could contain candy, goodies or many other thoughtful items. That was a good […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Why not stay right here. For this project video, I had planned an inside out ornament – a really special one. To my dismay, it broke. Due to the imminent deadline, I switched to a walnut tea light with flashing LED. As I first […]
Read More...This video is also available via YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook – Best right here at As Wood Turns. In thinking about another Halloween project, I decided to turn a Hogwarts sorting hat-a great projects for young wizards. But a hat from the wizarding world cannot be a smooth refined hat with a highly polished surface […]
Read More...This video may also be viewed on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re here already and it’s best right here. I often have a problem coming up with a woodturning project for Halloween. In fact, I do not know how I came up with this idea. The ghost is hazelnut about 3 inches high finished […]
Read More...This video may be viewed via YouTube, Vimeo, FaceBook or right here where it is best. Years ago, I did not use pen kits for making wooden pens like we almost exclusively do today. Still there is a place for an inexpensive yet classy desk pen set. This pen uses the filler extracted from a […]
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