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I will be in the San Diego area next week and I am wondering if there is some place to purchase woods from that area as well as places to visit that has something to do with wood turning?

This is the third bowl that I have made like this and so far I have had no problem with the wood movement. The epoxy seems to move with the wood and with the change in the moisture level in the...

The epoxy is made be West Systems and it is a marine epoxy, I don't know if other type of epoxy will work since this is the only one I have worked with. The drill I use for the pierceing is similar...

Here is the latest turning and piercing that I have done. This is a piece of Cottonwood with a marine epoxy ring added to it and then I pierced the epoxy. The bowl is about 10 inches side to side and...

I like to make new style Christmas Ornaments each year and this year I decided to make them out of Elk antler and Walnut. This one is one of the first ones I made. The hardest part of this was...

Hi Jon

I spent 2 1/2 days at the woodworking show this year and I did not see any thing besides the booth that my club had and the lathes at Craft Supplies booth because I was one was one of the...

Thanks to everyone for the nice comments. Jhon the rest of the tree is in my shop. I got three or four pieces of this tree because that is all I wanted at the time and I did not know what I had at...

Here is a piece of Cottonwood I hope that you like it. It is finished with three coats of toung oil and then Beal Buffed with all three compounds. Critique welcome.

Jeff

MY lathe does the same thing once in a while and when it does I shut the power off to it and let it set until I hear a very clear click in the head of the lathe. I turn it back on and it...

Thanks for the replys, We do have the pasports and plan to see a bit of Canada while we are there. My wife has several sight seeing things to do and I will tell her about the suggestions you all...

I will be visiting Nigra Falls next week and I was wondering if there was any woodworking shops in that area that I should visit while I am there. I was also wondering if there was anyoone in thaqt...

well, well, well this is day three and so far we have been so busy that all we have done is watch demo, spend our money at Craft Supply and turn egg holders. we have gotten up about six in the...

Well everything is great here in Utah the weather appears to have us set for a good day at Craft Supply and then the next three days will be inside so it can rain if it wants to and I can keep dry.
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Hi Todd

I have turned both alabester and soapstone and as soon as I cleaned up the mess I moved that type of turning our of my shop. As one person told me they are both great to turn on someones...

I got into this hobby about 7 to 8 years ago and I fell in love with it. I am a tool junky and I have to have almost of the new tools that come out so you can tell that by now I have a shop full and...

Thanks for all of the nice comments. The wood that I used for this turning was Cotton Wood. The dark spot that you see in the edge of the base unit is coffee grounds stabelized with C A. The red is...

Here is a few shots of the latest box that I made for the Grand Daughters Christmas present. These pictures do not do it justice but they are the best that I was able to get on short notice. The...

I used to be a deomonstrator for Dremel and the main difference between that and the Fordam is the speed. The top speed for the Dremel 400 is 35000 rpm and the other models go down to about 25000...

The hollow form that some of you have ask about took 12 hours just to do the burning part. I have some pyrography tools with little round balls on them and the marks you see on the turning is done...

I posted one of my award winning ornaments the other day and was ask if I had any more I could share with the group. I would be very happy if you can give me your honest opinion of the pieces I list...

Thanks for the nice replys. I have been very lucky the past few months because I have had the good fortune to win several red and blue ribons in contest I have entered with my turnings. I don't...

Here is a Christmas Ornament that I took to a Wood Carving show that my wife and I did a few weeks ago. I entered into there judging contest and was very happy to win this prize. The ornament is made...

Dennis

I think that you have found out the same thing that most of us have that own the Beal system. You need to break the system in and the first think you need to do is try to get rid of the...

when I first started turning (8 years ago) I made most of my work for someone else to use but as I progressed to the position I am in to day I find that I have changed to the place where I do mostly...

I hope this works this time http://wood-spun-round.com/ sorry about the problem.