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At the last meeting of my woodturning club Dan Long and Emory Mclaughlin gave us a great demonstration on how to turn a natural edge bowl. At the end of the demonstration our challenge was to turn a natural edge bowl for the Instant Gallery at our next meeting. This week I spent some Great excitement! My McNaughton Center Saver arrived. I’ve been wanting this for a long time and some recent sales of my turnings along with my upcoming birthday gave me the opportunity to order one. McNaughton Center Saver McNaughton Center Saver One of the things that has always frustrated me about turning a I have really enjoyed the time that I’ve spent on my blog and over the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about which direction I would like to take it. I’d like to know what you, the reader, would like to see. It would be great it you could A very cool video by Stuart King showing how he turns a wooden flower on a foot powered lathe. A wooden mallet is very useful in the workshop and I’ve been meaning to make one for a while. To make things a bit more interesting I decided to make one with an oval handle using off center turning. An oval handle is also more comfortable to hold than a circular handle. I made this from cherry, probably not the best of woods to use as it is not the hardest of hardwoods, but it is what I had on hand at the time.
In a recent post I mentioned I had made a Quarto Board Game for a friend of mine. It is made from walnut and oak that he sent me. It was a fun project and was done almost entirely on the lathe. I used a table saw to cut the stave sections for the sides of the box, and a drill press for the inlays on the top. This is an article on how I made the board game. The techniques here could be adapted for a number of different games. You can download a copy of the rules for Quarto here.
I am fortunate to be part of a very talented group of turners who have formed the Turning Arts Group. We have been showing our work at Works of Art in Jacksonville, FL. Yesterday, July 18th, 2009, we had our grand opening. The event went very well. We had a nice crowd attend and I got a chance to use my captured hollowing system with laser. I was really pleased with how it worked. The hollowing progressed smoothly and the laser really helped ensure a consistent wall thickness. Ever since I read David Ellsworth’s book Ellsworth on Woodturning I have been captivated by his “spirit forms”. This is I have just finished making a board game called Quarto. I was asked to make it for a good friend of mine. It is made from walnut and oak that he sent me. It was a fun project and was done almost entirely on the lathe. I used a table saw to cut the |
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