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Published on 2/1/2024 By Walter Wager: Turning a palm saver is a simple solution for making your tools user-friendly.
Published on 2/1/2024 By Tim Heil and Mark Palma: A burnishing tool is used in the woodshop to raise a burr on a scraping tool, creating an effective tool for refining a wood surface, even in challenging grain.
Published on 2/1/2024 By D.E. McIvor: Exchange your plastic seed pots for paper seed pots made with the help of a simple turning project—a seed pot press.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Jim Echter: Every advanced woodturner was once a beginner. Based on my thirty years as a woodturner, I offer a list of tips and suggestions that I wish I had known when I first started to turn wood.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Walt Wager: This article presents a way to get the inside-out ornament look without gluing and regluing. You might call it an “inside-out illusion.”
Published on 11/22/2023 By Tim Heil: I have stopped using commercial stainless steel bottle stopper hardware. Instead, I turn stoppers from wood. Making stoppers is a great way to use those beautiful small scraps of hardwood that are just too lovely to throw away.
Published on 11/22/2023 By John Lucas: I had never done three-, six-, or nine-sided inside-out turnings. I turned a few experiments and one of them had a silhouette that looked like a snowman. That’s how it all began.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Ron Giordano: I made this bubble light Christmas ornament because it brings back memories of the old liquid-filled bubble lights from the 1950s and ‘60s.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Linda Ferber: Here’s where we push the limits of our top design to see which design elements can be manipulated and still achieve a spinning top. Spinning, but perhaps a little unbalanced, or as I like to call them—wobblers.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Rick Rich: We usually use a white plastic breadboard the size of a legal pad with ugly knife marks all over it, so I thought it would be nice to have something proper for serving cheese. Especially something with a real marble tile in the middle.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Rick Rich: These project kits are here to help you include good cheeses in your holiday celebrations. They are easy to turn, make great display and gift items, and most importantly, they are useful for serving cheese.
Published on 10/6/2023 By Steve Wilson - Successful turnings combine aesthetically pleasing timber with good tool presentation and control and successful design.
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