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 …
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 …
I have described various bowls and the woods they are made from in different posts over time, but this is the first time in which I intentionally describe and …
Guest Authored By: Steve Staley Recently, I made two natural edged bowls from very different woods and had very different experiences and results as a consequence. The process of …
Waterfall pattern bubinga is a rare and beautiful wood that I had the opportunity to work with in making a platter recently. The wood was beautiful even if …
I had the chance to turn some woods native to Australia and New Zealand recently, some of which I actually hand carried home with from a recent trip to …
From the disastrously bad beginnings to the more recent freighting of over 100 pounds of turning wood across the nation by air, this post discusses the process by which …