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Threaded wooden dowels

I spent some time this weekend organizing my workshop.  It often feels like I spend more time organizing my workshop than I do working on stuff.  A big part of the problem is I keep on buying stuff and then I have to find a home for it in an already crowded space.  A smart [...]

Workshop with Dixie Biggs

As I mentioned in the previous post, my trip to the 2010 Florida Woodturning Symposium started with a workshop with Dixie Biggs.  I have admired Dixie’s work for a long time, so I was really excited about meeting her and the opportunity to take the workshop with her.  I was not disappointed!

Dixie Biggs offering [...]

Florida Woodturning Symposium 2010

This last weekend I attended the Florida Woodturning Symposium in Lake Yale, FL.  To say that I had a great weekend is an understatement!  It was such a pleasure to be able to immerse myself in wood turning for three days.

My trip started out early Friday morning.  I had to leave the house before 6am [...]

Chuck Reversing Adapter

Every now and then I buy a tool/gadget that takes a time consuming process and just simplifies it.  Yesterday I picked up a chuck reversing adapter from my local Woodcraft, and is it going to make life easy!

A chuck reversing adapter is used to take a turning that is mounted in a chuck on the [...]

Spindle and tenon gauge

I was getting tired of reaching for my calipers and setting them to my chuck diameter every time I needed to turn a tenon.  The alternative was trying to “guesstimate” the diameter needed and very often I would turn the tenon to small.  So I made a spindle and tenon gauge.

I have a set of [...]