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Cherry remains one of my all time favorite domestic woods in terms of its ease to work with on the lathe. I would add Hard Maple, Almond, Myrtle, Mesquite, …
The blank was originally 13" wide but the distortions of drying robbed it of the missing 0.5". Black Walnut is a good turning wood but it doesn't compare to …
Unlike the pen blank sold to me as Makore, these platter blanks demonstrate the moderate reported hardness of Makore which places it in the range of oak. The Makore …
It took some time and some patience to hollow this one out but I think the effort was repaid. The bowl does, unfortunately, have a check in the side …