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Explore the art of Wood Turning. Creating Pens, Bowls and other works from slabs of wood. We explore techniques, materials, tools and the spirit of wood turning. Join us.
The surviving blank measures about 8.5" x 2". It would have been 3" high but it too had a check and side wall failure, but one small enough that …
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 …
But it was more important that Camphor turn well in addition to smelling nice and it certainly did turn nicely! Camphor is relatively soft so it cut incredibly easy …
The thing is that aside from the end grain lift, which is best removed by locking the lathe and doing some quick focused sanding, Mulberry makes an excellent turning …