Posts Tagged ‘Ornament’


Turning Oversize Ornament For Fund Raising Event

This video is best viewed here on this page. However, if there are difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Our club is turning oversize ornament for a Christmas tree to be auctioned in a fund raising event. By oversized, this ornament is twelve inches long and two inches diameter. It is walnut […]

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Woodturning Green Bowl & Carving Foot(s)

This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of a gremlin attack, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I had this honey locust block of wood sealed with wax sealer and wrapped in plastic. When one of you asked about a footed bowl instead of a bowl foot, why not […]

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Upscale Old Fashioned Style Ornament To Sweet Treat Station

This post is best viewed here on this page. In case of computer difficulties, it is also posted to YouTube and FaceBook. I love the old fashioned glass ornaments. I do not see many of them any more. For this project, that ornament is the model for a candy station. I turned a sphere but […]

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Design, Print, Then Turn Mixed Media Ornament

This post is best viewed here on this page. In case that someone watered the gremlins, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. After checking in an ornament for the challenge by Dan Owens, I wanted to make one similar. His was 3D printed. So, I fired up my computer with OpenSCAD, 3D design […]

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Turning And Carving Acorn Candy Box Ornament

This video is best viewed here on this page. In case of gremlins getting loose, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. This project is an ornament for the Christmas Ornament Challenge which is now open. The shell is maple; the cap is walnut. They are joined together with a bayonet style bushing which […]

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Transforming Ugly Duckling Cracked Wood To ???? Ornament

In case of gremlin attack, this is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I received this wood in our club wood exchange raffle. It was so nasty, I almost threw it away. Then, well, I have turned spheres from worse. So, why not a sphere. Once I had a sphere, it was still a cracked […]

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Woodturning Tri Winged Christmas Ornament

This post is best viewed right here. In case of difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I have to postpone SWAT inspired projects in favor of preparation for this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge. However, this project draws inspiration from SWAT and from last year’s challenge. The ornament uses laminated dyed birch from […]

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Woodturning – Ornament Adapted From Christmas Ornament Challenge

For the convenience of some or if there are issues viewing this video, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. In this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I saw an ornament that I would like to emulate for my last ornament for this season. Kurt Wolf-Klammer entered his ornament in the challenge. I thank him […]

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Woodturning Sea Urchin Style Multi Axis Ornament

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Right Here! At our club’s Christmas social, I gave away my ornament made as a faux sea urchin. I had promised my wife to make another. However, the process to turn the original was difficult with catastrophic breakage very likely. I struggled to modify […]

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Woodturning Experimental Segmented Christmas Ornament

This video is also posted on YouTube, Vimeo and FaceBook. Where Best? – Right Here! This is the first time I’m using type of wood. It comes from FrogBlanks.com. It consists of birch veneers that may be dyed, then laminated in one directly only. (It is NOT cross banded). This is pretty wood. However, I […]

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