Making a Waterfall Bubinga Platter
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 …
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.
Bonding through Turning
June 30, 2010 Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Pens, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Wood, Wooden Bowl Blanks No Comments
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 …
Making A Teacher’s Pen
This post describes the materials and process utilized to make a unique double headed pen with both red and blue inks in one pen body intended for use by …
Making a Dish From a Segmented Bowl Blank
Having seen what looked like a nifty segmented bowl blank in a catalog, the beginning turner falls victim to marketing and a credit card. The blank, with some …
Why Wood Turners SHOULD Pick Up Wood by the Side of the Road
November 10, 2009 Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Wood, Wooden Bowl Blanks, Woodturning Materials No Comments
Once up on a time, I found some agricultural trimmings from an olive orchard waiting to be burned as waste. I rescued some pieces, kept them on a …
Turning An End-Grain Hollow Form – Sort Of
If you ever find yourself wondering what the wood turners equivalent of the snipe hunt is, wonder no more. It is, without doubt, the practice of recommending end-grain …
A Yo-Yo Decides To Make A Couple of Curly Maple Yo-Yos
Making a couple of yo-yos as Christmas gifts for some young nephews seemed like the perfect simple gift plan that would also be unique enough and appear nice enough …