Making A Garden Storage Cabinet
I've made an outdoor garden storage cabinet in our carport. We had a location in our carport that was just filling with garden tools and garden stuff. I wanted to clean this location up….
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What is the Point of this Bowl?
I had a maple bowl blank that I made in 2012. This bowl blank had a lot of material on the bottom part of the bowl and I thought it would be great to…
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Making An Ornament
This year's Christmas ornament is a sphere with a leading and bottom finial. The sphere has 24 sections running from top to bottom, making a striped pattern. In the sphere, I have 3 accent…
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What am I going to do with this Massive Fir Ball?
In 2019, I acquired a large portion of fir from a tree I slabbed up. The piece of fir has been sitting outside beside the look for the last 4 years. I finally pulled…
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Upgrades to the CNC
I have actually made some upgrades to the CNC machine. Passionate CNC sent me some new parts to set up. The biggest modification is updating the control box and the control software. I'm going…
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Woodturning Segmented Candle Stands
I have made a set of candle light means this year's Christmas ornament job. The stands are wood turned segmented pieces. I made them from a maple tree I cut up from my father-in-law's…
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Adding A Laser Cutter to My CNC
I have actually been setting up a laser cutter on the CNC machine. The laser cutter was sent to by Avid CNC. It's been a slow process over the last couple of months. The…
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Making Jar storage
I have actually been canning a great deal of tomatoes over the previous couple of years. I now have a great deal of containers both empty and filled with tomatoes and other things. I…
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Throwing a System Into My Wrenches
A few years back, I got a lot of wrenches at an auction. I think I have actually lastly come up with a way to arrange them. The wrenches have just been stacked into…
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Woodturning a Platter with Thick Inlays
What really interested me about structure and utilizing a CNC machine was the idea of having the ability to cut complicated inlays that I could then wood turn. I've done a number of tasks…
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Fast cherry bowl
I have made a small cherry bowl with a racing stripe. I rough turned this bowl years back and it has actually dried into an oval shape with a tiny bit of bark invasion…
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Making Mars out of Cherry
I have actually made the planet Mars from a dodecahedron made out of cherry wood. The dodecahedron is constructed of pentagons that have the surface of Mars carved into them. I put the pentagons…
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Spike the Bowl
I've made a bowl with spikes on the outside. I utilized the information that I utilize on my carvers mallets to connect the spikes to the bowl. This requires sculpting a radial joint on…
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Downed Trees: Destruction and Creation
We had a particularly bad winter season storm this previous January. The storm began really windy and ended with ice. We lost power for 4 days and we had a tree fall on our…
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My first hollow form
I have been wanting to play around with woodturning hollow forms. This is a type that is similar to woodturning a bowl except that the opening at the top is really small so it…
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Coffee Table Augmentation
We chose the coffee table I made a little over a year ago wasn't quite huge enough. My concept to increase the size of the coffee table was to cut the coffee table in…
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wood tuning a fir bowl
I obtained a complimentary load of fir from a tree not too far away from us. I got a couple of great logs that I slabbed from this lot. I likewise got several much…
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Wood Flooring Turned Mallets
I have made more mallets. I have discovered a brand-new source for wood to make the mallets. This wood was predestined for the Portland airport restoration. A good friend of mine owns The Zena…
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Why did my Bathroom Remodel Take 13 Years?
I have actually lastly completed our 13-year bathroom remodel task. We started demoing our basement restroom simply after we moved into our home. We got the sink and eliminated most of the drywall. We…
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Making the Moon
I have actually done a handful of tasks where I've taken a geometric strong like a dodecahedron or an icosahedron and made that shape out of flat parts. Once I had those parts glued…
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We Need a Bigger Table
I have actually made an extension for our dining-room table to accommodate all of the visitors we are having this Thanksgiving. I wished to make this extension as a stand alone table that will…
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Most Complicated Ornament Yet
For this year's Christmas accessory I thought I would make a wreath, and in making this type, I believed I would make a wood turned torus. I decided I would include stripes to make…
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