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 The Turning Arts Group is a collaborative of turners that I am part of. We have sold our turned pieces through galleries and artist cooperatives. Our group is now offering our work through our own website which we recently launched! You can visit our site at http://www.turningartsgroup.com The site features a tab for each  Like many people I use either the Wolverine Vari-Grind Jig or the Sharp Fast Sharpening Jig to sharpen my bowl and spindle gouges, and like most people I extend the gouge 2″ beyond the jig before fastening it in position. Up to now I had a block of wood screwed 2″ back from the  I love the smell of cedar in my workshop! A friend gave me a couple of freshly cut cedar logs recently. The logs were fairly small diameter, about 5″ and the pith was offset quite a bit to one side. I cut the logs into 2′ lengths using my chainsaw, but did not want  Sometimes it’s the small things that seem to make a big difference. I have a bad habit of placing things, chuck handles, pen bushings, faceplate screws, pencils etc, on the headstock of my lathe. Most of the time it is not a problem, but then I’ll lean over the headstock with my left arm  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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