Turning a Chess Set

April 27, 2009

In this article you will see my process of discovery as I turned my first chess set from wood. Everything from the design to the actual turning and finishing is discussed here.

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Part and Wholeness in the Wood Shop

April 10, 2009

What is the main organizing purpose for what you do? If you forget about why you’re in the wood shop, it can be easy to get overwhelmed by all the tools, and details of working with wood…

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Different Saws for Different Purposes

March 9, 2009

Have you ever noticed how much wood is available in your neighborhood? Metropolitan areas are a veritable windfall for the alert woodworker. In this article, I share the tools I use to transform unwanted wood into finished products. You will save money and utilize an overlooked resource…

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Refining our methods… growing in efficiency

February 26, 2009

In every part of life, there are tasks that are more fun than others. Let’s think about how to shave off time from tasks that aren’t our favorites. As a woodworker, I love to turn a bowl, but setting up the chucks is where I’d like be more efficient…

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Improving Wood Bowl Feet

February 18, 2009

Turning a foot on a wood bowl is not easy at first. It takes the right tools to make it work. Do you use techniques like this when you’re turning a bowl foot?

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New RSS feed… please make a note!

February 11, 2009

As of this weekend, the current RSS feed will be replaced with this new feed. Please change the feed in your feed reader, or sign-up for the blog by email.

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David Ellsworth – A Woodworking Seminar Made in Heaven

February 11, 2009

Between the great meals we shared together to the quality time we shared in the shop, I came away from a weekend seminar with David Ellsworth completely enthused about everything relating to woodturning…

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A Woodworker’s Boon

January 25, 2009

Keith Cruickshank shares his knowledge of woodworking by video. If you have never had a chance to learn this way, I’d say it’s next best thing to being there. I am a 70 year-old woodworker, who has learned everything about woodworking by books, so this is a real boon.

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Making a Stepping Stool from Sentimental Wood

January 9, 2009

This stool was a long time in coming. I carried the wood across the country and back again on all my various moves before transforming it into this stool. My father has this tree on our farm cut shortly before he died and it has a lot of my life history in it.

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What kind of tools do you go for?

January 5, 2009

Good tools are essential for good work, but there is a limit to how much I’m willing to spend on tools. There are many ways to accomplish the same end, if you’re creative.

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