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.
Upon looking at them, they would have been easy for most wood turners to throw away. Dusty, covered in cobwebs, and in some cases actual mud, what was …
Wood_Pens January 22, 2011 Acrylic Pen Blanks, Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Pens, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Woodturning Materials From the rough beginnings of cutting and drilling blanks to the final finishing steps using special Australian shellac, this post will give you the step by step run down …
It is potentially fair to say that I am a man obsessed with the huge variety of materials which can be turned on the wood lathe. This post …
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 …