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Ever made a lampshade out of a bowl? I’ll never admit to it, but I’ve heard of people hollowing right through the bottom of a bowl I recently turned a bowl and the bottom was a lot thinner than I liked and getting dangerously close to becoming a lampshade. So I decided to [...] For the technically inclined a Morse Taper #2 has a angle of 1° 25′ 50″, as gleaned from the fountain of knowledge, Wikipedia. For the less technically inclined, myself included, turning a wooden morse taper is a quick and easy project that can be done with some simple measurements. The first step [...] I often hear turners talk about “free wood”. To my mind there is no such thing as “free wood”. Between the time and mileage spent driving to pick up the logs and the time and energy spent processing the logs into blanks, I often feel it would be easier and cheaper to just buy [...] For the longest of time I’ve been working on the ground when processing my logs with a chainsaw. I had a wooden pallet and I would position the logs on it and then cut them. It worked OK. Often I had trouble securing the logs so they didn’t move while I was cutting them, [...] In terms of inspiration very little compares to the opportunity to view the pieces on display at the Instant Gallery at the 2010 AAW Symposium in Hartford, Connecticut. The talent, skill and creativity displayed on those tables is amazing. The following photo album is pretty big, 296 photos in all, but well worth browsing [...] |
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