Woodturning Materials
So, what can you use as a wood turning material? The better question is, what CAN’T you use! The wood lathe can certainly be used to create objects from most any wood you can imagine, and probably a fair amount of woods you have never heard of much less imagined. But the possibilities don’t stop there. I also use acrylic plastics, deer antler, water buffalo horn, off-cuts from Corian counter tops, corncobs (no, really, I swear), wood composites, and even custom made pens with items encased in special polymers that allow you to do decoupage-like items. One can even rescue the shavings from today’s bowls to make tomorrow’s pens through a process named by its creator, Phoenix Pens. Really, the only limitation is your imagination.
Lyptus isn't really intended to be a turning wood, rather it is a flooring plank material but it is easy enough to get a flooring plank and cut it …
Geographic Distribution: The wood commonly known as Monkey Puzzle is known to botanists and other scientists as Araucaria araucana. A. araucana is native to the Chile and Argentina. A. araucana …
Quina has a great red color and a fantastic sweet-spicy scent when cut. I would like to smell it when cut green because I would imagine the fragrance would …
I LOVED working with Argentine Lignum Vitae! This super hard wood cuts so cleanly that attempting to sand it is unnecessary which is a good thing because this wood …
Black Mesquite cuts very cleanly and requires little to no finish sanding which makes it very easy to work with, plus, the grain and figure is wild and unlike …
Jatoba is very dense and quite hard so it cuts slowly. Be patient with it. Jatoba has a very nice color and it cut cleanly along the grain but …
I have greatly enjoyed working with Canarywood and this single bowl, the blank for which was mixed into a much larger batch of over 100 blanks, proved no exception …