It is nearing the end of September as I write this and the last of the summer markets just ended which means that now it is time to start preparing for the Christmas markets. This year I have committed to more shows than in past years as well as getting into more established shows so […]
A couple of years ago now a shot some video of a natural edge wedding goblet that I was making. Unfortunately when I went to edit it I found that my computer at the time was simply unable to manage the files and there was really too much video to post it without being edited
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Generally wood turning in know for making wood into round shapes but other things are possible if you know how to do them, lately I had reason to make an oval handle. What happened is that I was placing an order for some hardware that I was getting low on and decided to try out
In September of 2013 president of the Greater Vancouver Woodturner’s Guild issued a challenge to turn twenty bowls and bring them to the meeting in May. The guild usually has monthly challenges and this was issued far in advance to give everybody time to work on it with the idea being that making twenty pieces
The other day I was called upon to duplicate an architectural turning. A co-worker brought in a spindle from his staircase that his kids had broken while playing. The store that it has been bought from had discontinued it so it now needed to be either copied or repaired. Since the bed on my lathe
