Information for Wood Workers
This tag is applied when a post includes information that I believe would be relevant to other wood workers or wood turners based on my experience with a wood, other material, hardware, or power tools.
And then there is the odor. Wow, the scent is literally knock you down overpowering in the shop even days later. My sinuses have never been so …
I turned a 9" x 3" Sassafras bowl today. I have written about Sassafras in general elsewhere. This blank was a good deal larger than the one I turned …
I turned this good sized, 10″ x 3″ Sycamore bowl this afternoon. It was meant to be 4″ thick but it flew off the lathe twice because of a …
Wood_Pens April 15, 2020 Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Pens, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Wooden Bowl Blanks, Woodturning Materials Since I was making three fairly large Bubinga platters, I decided to completely clear out my stocks of Bubinga. I thought I had twelve pieces, but oooops, one …
I have greatly enjoyed my time working with Bubinga and I am a bit saddened that it will be much more difficult, if not impossible, to find and purchase …
The blanks turned easily enough, even though oven dry Persimmon is among the hardest of the North American woods, which makes sense given that it is in the Ebony …
I’ve written several times in the past about the green turning technique and process, most explicitly in this post. My consensus in the past seems to be that I …