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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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