The award winning Woodturning Workshop returns for its fourth season this spring with all new and exciting projects. We will show you how to harvest, core and dry bowl blanks and then, from those same blanks, create a desktop water fountain. Other projects include turning a ladle, making a segmented bowl, sandblasting a vessel, and producing a beautiful goblet with captive rings.

In response to your feedback we have added a new segment designed to answer your questions about woodturning. We call it ‘Your Turn’.

In addition, we visited the 2009 AAW symposium and shot interviews with Master turners Bonnie Klein, Bill Luce and Bill Kandler. Each of them designed a project for us to turn in the shop, and in turn, share with you.
Master Turner Trent Bosch and Master Metal Spinner Tom Farrell each dropped by the shop. Trent demonstrated how he turns and carves a platter. Tom helped Tim redeem himself with two (successful) metal spinning projects.
Join Tim and ‘Keep Turning’ with this new season of Woodturning Workshop!

Woodturning Workshop Season 4 Episode Descriptions

401 Southwest Sandblasted Vessel:  Tim visits nationally renowned woodturner Bill Luce who shows off some of his phenomenal sandblasted work.  Then it’s back to the shop, where Tim shows you how to hollow a Southwestern vessel and then tries out his newly found sandblasting ‘skills’ .

402 Preparing Bowl Blanks: Almost every turner wants to make a bowl, but doesn’t know where to start. In this episode Tim takes you through the step by step process ...from harvesting a chunk of wood, to coring it, and storing it.

403 Banksia Pod Box: With his sister’s birthday just around the corner, Tim isn’t sure what to get her. But he has a stroke of inspiration when he turns a lidded box out of one of his favorite things to turn…a Banksia Pod (or as he likes to call it… a pine cone on steroids!).

404 Segmented Vessel # 1: Tim introduces you to a turner who has created his own unique software to help him design segmented vessels. Then he joins master woodturner Bob Hawks at his shop, where he shows you how to measure, cut and glue up the wood for a segmented bowl (Part 1 of 2). Then a special treat as Tim shares with you some of his favorite turnings from the American Association of Woodturners annual symposium.

405 Segmented Vessel # 2:  We pick back up in the shop of master turner Bob Hawks in this final episode on how to create a segmented bowl.   You will learn how to assemble the segmented rings and finish turn the segmented vessel.

406 Shipping Tube Ornament:  It’s time for Woodturning Workshop’s Annual Viewer Holiday Ornament project. David Reed Smith designed this year’s winning turning which is made with walnut, veneer, inlay and a shipping tube. It may sound a bit strange, but you will have to trust Tim on this one!

407 Desktop Water Fountain: Tim gets wet behind the ears as he creates a three level desktop water fountain out of bowl blanks. You will learn what type of water pump to use and how to use epoxy for a beautiful waterproof finish.

408 Metal Spinning Redemption: Famous for his lack of skill when it comes to metal spinning Tim redeems himself by making a simple nut dish. Then master metal spinner Tom Farrell drops by the shop to spin a spectacular lidded candy dish.

409 Postage Stamp Dispenser:  Speedy Delivery! Tim attempts to make paying bills an enjoyable experience for everyone, by showing how to turn Gothard Knutson’s famous postage stamp dispenser. Never one to leave well enough alone Tim uses a threading system to mate the lid and body of the dispenser.

410 Teaching Kids/Bonnie Klein: One could argue that Tim is still in his second childhood so this episode is right up his ally. With input from master turner Bonnie Klein, Tim shows you two projects that you can use to teach a child to turn.

411 Ladle: It seems we can’t keep Tim out of the kitchen. He is back at it again as he shows you how to turn a soup ladle that you would be proud to have at your dinner table.

412 Trent Bosh/Surface Decoration: Master turner Trent Bosch shows Tim how he makes one of his famous carved platters. Trent does not stop at turning tools as he uses grinders, saws and chisels to shape this work of art.

413 Captive Ring Goblet: Legend has it that newly married couples were given a goblet with captive rings as a wedding gift. As long as the rings remain intact, so will the marriage. Tim shows you the trick of turning the goblet and rings from one piece of wood.

 

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Woodturning Workshop (WTW) appears on many PBS stations around the nation, but if you do not receive it in your area there are two ways to get WTW broadcast on your PBS station.

The first is to contact your local PBS station and request them to carry WTW. If you do not know how to contact your local station, click this link and it will take you to the PBS website. There, by just entering your zip code, you will find contact information for your local PBS station. 

The second method is to contact the PBS ‘how to’ network Create. Create provides programming to about 90% of the nation’s PBS stations. That makes them the ‘Big Dog’ that could really help bring WTW to the entire country. This link will take you to the Woodturning Workshop request form. By filling out this online request it will show the Create programmers that woodturning is important to their audience.

Making a single phone call or sending an email can have amazing results. Wayne Smith, from Capitan New Mexico, saw that WTW had been taken off of his local PBS station’s schedule. He called and talked to the programming director and now they are going to air season four. This is just one of the many stories where individual turners or entire clubs made their voices heard with great results.

Woodturning Workshop is produced by RSU Public TV a nonprofit station. Our mission is to provide ‘Life Long Learning’ to our PBS viewers. Any money from underwriting or DVD sales goes directly back into the production budget for the show.

Thanks again for all your support and Keep Turning!
Tim Yoder