East Indian Rosewood
These are essentially field notes from research and practical experience of turning projects employing East Indian Rosewood, a richly varigated and beautifully scented wood found in tropical Asia and …
Wooden Bowl Blanks
Bloodwood
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 …
Working With an Unusual Turning Wood: Hollywood Juniper
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 …
Working with Rescue Bowls
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 …
The Infinite Joys of Turning Materials
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 …
Braving Working With Lignum Vitae
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 …
Roughing It With the Ci1 Easy Rougher
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 …