//www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkq2O0eZhs This post is best viewed here on this page. However, in case of technical difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Several weeks ago, I turned a piece from an unknown tree harvested from my back yard. It has now been identified as red bug, a beautiful wood. After seeing how beautiful the wood turned out, I decided to turn a small vase from the same trunk. Turned green, I then let it dry after coating with wood glue and wrapping in paper. When it stopped losing weight, I remounted the vase to finish it again. Much of the hollowing was through ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzZ1akeoc9E Please view this post on this page. However, in case of video difficulty, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I scored some sapele offcuts from an associate-not large enough individually. However, I could see a bowl or small platter – only larger. While I would prefer turning from a single piece of wood, I decided to glue three pieces together and go for it anyway. The wood is too beautiful to do otherwise. Size: about 15 inches diameter by 2 inch, finished with wipe on poly. Enjoy ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdW3EGkFGbo Please view this post here on this page. However, if having technical difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I find kaleidoscopes fascinating. Last fall, I participated in a workshop with Mark Tickle where I assembled a couple of his kaleidoscopes. Kaleidoscopes transmit light through an object cell containing random shapes and colors. Then light is reflected from a carefully arranged mirrors to produce a random, display of colors and patterns. Different mirror configurations produce different macro patterns while the random colored obje ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=33K4xdD8wgE Please view this post here on this page. But if there are technical difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Inspired by entries in last year’s Ornament Challenge. I am in an eccentric mood. Plus, we had a club demonstration wherein one of the projects was an evergreen tree. I decided to take the demonstration tree to the level of the challenge tree. This requires a series of offsets to the turning axis to achieve a leaning tree or a tree that has grown up in a consistent prevailing wind, my mother’s “canyon breeze”. The wood is aspen. Thi ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-h_Euy7X3s In case of technical difficulties, this post is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. However, it is best to stay right here! I saw a couple of trembleurs in the instant gallery at the AAW symposium in Portland, Oregon. And, then, Eli Avisera did a demonstration that was very informative. The only significant difference between Eli’s process and mine is that I cheated and turned the trembleur from a round dowel instead of square stock. In my experience dowels have fairly straight grain which is perfect for a trembleur. Size: about 12 inches long. Main shaf ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFqKShBBW0 In case of video difficulties, this post is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. Inspired by a fantastic demonstration at the Portland American Woodturning Symposium by Eli Avisera. This is an eccentric or multi-axis small scoop from a single piece of wood. It requires turning a sphere on the end of a spindle, then offsetting the axis to turn the main handle, then returning to the original axis to finish the handle. At long last, hollow the sphere to form the bowl of the scoop. The octagon method for turning a sphere helped. I also 3D printed a couple of ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v6bSoev3Mc This post is best viewed right here on this page. But, if you have difficulties, it is also posted on YouTube and FaceBook. I wish I knew what species of this this bowl is turned from. It was a decorative tree in my back yard that I cut down. The wood is beautiful. It is an interesting convergence of a square bowl and a bowl. Size: about 7 x 2 and 2 High. Finished with walnut oil. Enjoy ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mRikU0eXI Just in case of technical difficulties, this post is also on YouTube and FaceBook. I received this wood from a friend who had traveled and lived in Venezuela. He had returned with a “bookcase” of beautiful wood, saman. He was moving and need to find a new home for the wood. The wood was already 12″ square and 2″ thick. I trimmed it to remove dings in the edges. Mounted with hot melt glue, I turned a mortise. But at the last minute, the hot melt glue failed. Why? too heavy, too little glue, operator error? I had other difficulties but continued until I now ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFq0u_yzFX8 Please view this post here on this page. But if there are technical difficulties, it is also available on YouTube and FaceBook. Salvaged from a friend’s burn pile, this cottonwood burl took some TLC and a redesign but not that much TLC. It is well worth the UV resin and CA needed to bring out its beauty. Size: about 11 diameter and 3 tall. Finished with wipe-on poly. UV resin: Amazon CA glue: Almost anywhere Enjoy ..read more

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJQQGHNXdE In the remote possibility of technical difficulties, this post is also available at YouTube and FaceBook. Best Right Here! While making last week’s project, it was an appropriate time to upgrade my band saw sled incorporating inspiration from a demonstration at last year’s Rocky Mountain Symposium in Colorado. In that demonstration, he used a sled that had some features that I thought would be good to incorporate into the sled I have been using and upgrading for several years. One problem – these features depended on a salvaged lathe spindle. The spindle ..read more