Using Laminated Blanks to Make Touch Stylus Pens
With names like Field, Olympia, Caribbean, and Bahama Cherry, one might think they have stumbled into an Avon catalog, but these are actually color names for laminated pens blanks …
Working with Rescue Bowls
Upon looking at them, they would have been easy for most wood turners to throw away. Dusty, covered in cobwebs, and in some cases actual mud, what was …
Testing A New Lathe and A New Tool
January 29, 2011 Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools 1 Comment
A new power tool, in this case a new lathe, is a cause for celebration and time to test the capacity and limits of the machine. Walk through …
So, You Want To Make A Pen?
From the rough beginnings of cutting and drilling blanks to the final finishing steps using special Australian shellac, this post will give you the step by step run down …
The Infinite Joys of Turning Materials
It is potentially fair to say that I am a man obsessed with the huge variety of materials which can be turned on the wood lathe. This post …
Braving Working With Lignum Vitae
Lignum Vitae is the hardest and densest of all commercially traded wood species, and that hardness has made the wood useful for everything from electrical insulators and submarine drive …
Roughing It With the Ci1 Easy Rougher
Any tool that claims to make the process of rough cutting a bowl "easy" has to be suspect. I had read the hype from the maker as well …