This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best right here! When I received this block of figured poplar at our club’s wood raffle, I immediately thought, Box based on its size and grain orientation. However, as I started turning and seeing the amazing grain patterns, the wood talked then screamed at me, […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here. Preparing for this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, this hand bell was inspired by a presentation by Robin Costelle at the Segmented Woodturning Symposium. However, it does deviate from his bell in that it has multiple layers or rings. The wood in […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. But you’re already here! For my first entry to this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I chose a traditional globe style ornament with bottom icicle finial. I wanted the globe to be a perfect ellipse similar to a perfect sphere. Of course, a perfect ellipse would […]
Read More...This video is also posted to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. Best right here at the source. Announcing the Seventh Annual Christmas Ornament Challenge. The challenge is open to all crafts, all materials, collaborations, mixed media, whatever. All skill levels may also enter. This year NO video is required. However, if you make a video, we’ll […]
Read More...Sphere pictures so far in the 2018 challenge. Get yours in by July 31, 2018 at www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges. Rules – turn a sphere (by 7/31/18) Send it in. Resource for you to review: Woodturning Essentials – Octagon Method For Perfect Spheres Woodturning A Perfect Sphere Into A Strata-Sphere Enjoy!
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 on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook. At our last woodturning club meeting, I won a chunk of wood in our raffle. It was a mystery wood salvage from a members job from discarded packing material. What do I do with a short piece of 4×4 with drying checks. In the Christmas Ornament […]
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. But you’re here already where it is best! While wrapping up this year’s Christmas Ornament Challenge, I wanted to make one more Christmas ornament. For this ornament, I used left over laminations from a rolling pin projects and oriented the layers on a diagonal. […]
Read More...This video is also available on YouTube, Vimeo, and FaceBook. Best Place? Right Here! The Christmas Ornament Challenge is accepting entries through November. Enter yours at www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges/. For this project, I decided to do something different. Instead of a hollow globe with finials, I decided to substitute a disk for the globe and place decorative […]
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