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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.
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 …