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Woods for wood turning truly open doors for most anyone in terms of the extreme diversity of wood that is available in the world. Even experienced wood workers are likely to be surprised by the quality and quantities of different possibilities inherent when the focus is on the smaller pieces of wood that are typically used by the wood turner as opposed to the slabs and plywoods typically used in cabinetry and furniture construction. And we are definitely not talking about framing pine 2x4s here! Wood really can be purple, yellow, red, and even multi-colored without the use of dyes, paints, or stains. Don’t think so? Follow me into this category and find out for yourself!
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 …
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 …