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.
These are essentially field notes from research and practical experience of turning projects employing bloodwood, a richly red colored wood found in tropical America. Information about working with …
When making a batch of bottle stoppers, I used a wide variety of materials, some new to me completely, some familiar but not written about, and some that I …
This post presents a step by step explication of the process used to make a set of bottle stoppers from various materials including pitfalls and ideas for a more …
Herein I try out a new style of pen that combines writing and stylus work in one nifty piece. This makes an essential desk tool that can be …
Highly colored and figured stabilized burl wood allows for the creation of unique turned items due to both the color and the inherently unique and individual nature of burl …
I happened to have some Hollywood Juniper rough turned bowls that came as part of a larger lot. This ornamental shrub isn't the type of wood you can …
With names like Field, Olympia, Caribbean, and Bahama Cherry, one might think they have stumbled into an Avon catalog, but these are actually color names for laminated pens blanks …