Archive for the ‘Tools and Jigs’ Category


Threading Wood For Every Day Woodturning

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here! We have a special guest for this week’s video. Frank Young is a master woodturner. He will show hand chasing threads in segmented wood for all sorts of projects. Why threads in segmented wood? Usually when someone is chasing threads, they must […]

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Pin Face Plate and Threaded Wood Face Plates For Woodturning

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best here where you are already! I have dozens of threaded wood faceplates that is use in many different applications. The alternative is a steel faceplate with wood screwed to its face. However, due to the cost of steel faceplates, I would have to be […]

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Classy, Easy, DIY Christmas Ornament Hangers

I like to make my own wire hangers for my Christmas ornaments. In my view, they are a much better alternative to screw eyelets. Materials Copper wire (silvered, copper, black, etc) 18 to 24 gauge available from craft stores and some hardware stores. Drill bit or transfer punch – size to taste Jacobs chuck or […]

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Decorating End Grain With Sorby Tool-Guest Presentation

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where Best? Right Here! Vladimer Swartsman, a fellow member of our local woodturning club consented to sharing his experience decorating end grain with a Sorby Spiraling and Texturing tool. He shows how to sharpen the tool and how to position the tool for a variety […]

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DIY Triple Wire Woodburner For Woodturning

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Where best – Right Here! At a recent Saturday gathering of local woodturners, we discussed wire wood burner alternatives. I’ve used a commercial set for many years but they then to get kinked up; burn me; and are hard to find. After our initial discussion, […]

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A DIY Approach To Waterproof Wood

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But, you’re already here! At last fall’s Segmented Woodturning Symposium, I had a discussion with Joe Schlawin. He suggested that acrylic plastic could be used to waterproof certain woodturnings. I needed to know how a solid sheet of acrylic plastic could waterproof the inside of […]

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Do Not Let Your Spouse See This Woodturning Present

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here at As Wood Turns. My wife convinced me to purchase a SawStop table saw. I guess she wants me to keep all my fingers. My previous saw was a vintage Craftsman table saw. Years ago, I had purchased an Incra rip fence […]

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Live Center Options For Woodturning

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. I appreciate my OneWay live center. It is well made and a good design. The design enable me to tap other items to enhance its capabilities. In this video, I make a finial steady that mounts to the live center and keeps thin finials from […]

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DIY Flange Nut Alternative With Set Screw

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! I asked other woodturners in my club how to solve a particular problem. Several had machining background. Their recommendation was to obtain a flange nut then drill and tap for a set screw in the side. Essentially, a flange nut incorporates a […]

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DIY Threading Jig For Common Wood

This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Same video – best right here. I’ve been on a quest to thread wood for many, many years. I even purchased a Beall tap and die set for simple nut and bolt projects. Very NOT satisfied. I’ve even tried to design and built my own […]

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