177 days ago
by jjw5858 |
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Our hike began with a sense of fun and small adventure through a parade of awaiting sticker bushes and many fallen trees laid out before us like a maze of dominoes in there felled awkward patterns. I felt so blessed to have my father leading the way down the slopes of leaves and enjoying his memories about the hillside with so many tales from his experienced 75 years.
We were up for taking a chance at finding some birch wood for spoons and kuksa, not much of the fine tree stands in the cur...
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555 days ago
by joey bealis |
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Sorry I have not been putting a lot of my projects on here lately but I’ve been doing alot with esty and I’m doing a new website it takes a lot of time. Here is a link to my esty shop if anyone would like to see what I’ve been up to. http://www.etsy.com/shop/JosephBealis
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808 days ago
by scottb |
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Pardon the sometimes slightly out of focus glimpse of these little, teeny tiny bowls coming to life. It probably has more to do with the coating of dust on my face shield than all them mega pixels crammed into my pocket. (Which out snaps my first TWO digital cameras.)..
Anywho, our fellow lumberjock Karson sent me a lovely box-o-wood, and asked if I’d turn out a couple of cousins of this little beauty:
We’d both figured these would come up as projects in my “next&#...
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954 days ago
by Gary Fixler |
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You guys really liked my last blog post about the Jarvi Bench, which made me happy as it was my 200th.
I thought I’d follow up with a simpler process video I recently found that also makes me quite happy. In this one, a man named Robin Wood recreates the techniques used by one George Lailey, who died in 1958 at 89 years old. Robin spent 5 years researching Lailey’s techniques, recreating the very simple, entirely foot-powered lathe (a “pole lathe”), hand-forging all...
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1593 days ago
by ArtSmock |
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This is the first green turn read more in my project “oak bowl” thanks
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2019 days ago
by Dorje |
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Did some turning today…processed a number of maple rounds into bowl blanks…waxed the ends on the blanks and turned a few rough bowls with a few others.
This clunker has some pretty good figure – and some rot too! Not sure what I’m going to do about the rot..I think I need to fill it with something (not the void – but the punky wood). I recall that Douglas posted something on the subject. I’ll have to track that down.
Some of the blanks had figure a...
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2027 days ago
by Dorje |
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Here are a few of the ROUGH bowls that have come off the lathe in the past few weeks (sorry about the lighting):
A small cherry bowl:
A slightly large, chunkier, and deeper cherry bowl:
I nabbed a number of chunks of the neighbor’s maple that he was going to haul off. I tried to get ones with promise of figure. Here’s one that I turned the other day – and don’t I wish the whole blank had that curly figure!:
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2027 days ago
by Dorje |
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My wife bought me this Jet 1642 EVS lathe last month…I love it!
She really likes bowls – thank goodness! She didn’t think that I should get the 14”er that I had been planning on for the past year or so…
The first day that I went out to play (set it up and turn it on), it wouldn’t run! Turns out that it wouldn’t run off of the GFI circuit that runs to the shop…I had to run a new standard circuit out there from the panel in the house ̵...
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