Woodturning a Winged Elm Platter
I made a video to show how I prepared a piece of Elm wood and turned it into a winged platter. I mounted it using a shop-made face plate and…
Woodturning a Gavel and Block
I turned a Gavel and Sound Block out of Elm. It was a bit simpler than I thought it would be, but you do have to be consistent to make…
2016 Ornament Challenge
This year I decided to turn a miniature ornament for the challenge. Turning something this small is not as fast as I thought it would be. You have to slow…
Project: DIY Miniature Woodturning Tools
I made a couple of small (~1/4" diameter/ 6mm) woodturning tools using some M2 High Speed Steel (#ad) for just a few dollars each. I made some handles and ground…
DIY Morse Taper Cleaning Tool
I made a tool to clean the inside of a Morse Taper on the lathe. It is sized to fit the MT2 taper common on many lathes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C7eia5WzZI
Live Edge Elm Bowl
I decided to challenge myself by making a live edge bowl. This is a small piece of an Elm branch that fell in my neighborhood last spring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8sXwvbvLlA Elm has…
2016 SFWW Pen Turning Challenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3acPvcB69qk I turned this pen from oak grown in Texas, and this video is my submission for the SFWW 2106 Pen Turning Challenge. This is just a small way…
How Fast Can I Turn This Pen? 6:39
David Picciuto of MakeSomething.tv challenged us to see how fast we can make a pen. That sounded like fun, so this is what I came up with. https://youtu.be/93Bv8_jzzmo Thanks to…
Magnetic Mushrooms: A Woodturning Project
I used some scraps leftover from pen blanks to make some two-toned refrigerator magnets in the shape of mushrooms. It's a good way to use up those tiny pieces of…
Beginning WoodTurning: Turning a Square Blank into a Cylinder
In this video, I show how to turn a Square spindle blank into a Cylinder. I focus on the need to cut "downhill" and to incorporate bevel supported cuts using…