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Woodworking Events Added

There are woodworking events throughout the year and all over the world and it is hard to keep track of them. My wife and I like to travel a bit and this will help coincide a woodshow with our travel plans. Hopefully you will find it helpful as well. You can access the Events section [...]

December 27, 2007No CommentRead More

Wooden Cutting Boards For Christmas

December 22, 2007 No Comment

I spent some time this past week creating a few cutting boards. Cutting boards make great gifts and are fairly easy to make. I used a variety of woods and edging to make each one different. Here they are: The board below is approximately 10″ square and made of walnut and maple:

Turned Pens Of Cocobolo / Tigerwood

December 18, 2007 No Comment

It’ll soon be gift giving time so I turned a couple of more pens. The one on the left is made of Cocobolo and the one on the right is made of Tigerwood. Cocobolo is a rich looking wood and makes very elegant pens when finished and Tigerwood, with it’s shades of orange and browns, [...]

Grinder Upgraded And Balanced

December 16, 2007 No Comment

I upgraded my grinder yesterday with the Oneway Balancing System and a new cool grinding wheel. Apparently grinding wheels are not balanced and can vibrate, not giving the best sharpening possible and the balancer corrects this problem. The kit comes with a balancing stand where you place the wheel on and then by positioning weights [...]

The Wolverine Sharpening System

December 15, 2007 No Comment

Merry Christmas to me… Merry Christmas to me… Since the woodturning tool sharpening seminar I took back in October I knew that there was a better way of sharpening my tools. I can assure you that my ‘freehand’ sharpening leaves a lot to be desired! Since then I have been eyeing the Oneway Wolverine Sharpening [...]

Woodworking In Toyland

December 11, 2007 No Comment

The December meeting, also known as the Christmas meeting, of the Atlantic Woodworkers Association was held tonight at Lee Valley. The Christmas meeting has been the tradition among the AWA members to bring in (and show off ) toys that they made. The toys are given later to the Salvation Army to distribute to underprivileged [...]

Tips On Lathe And Woodturning Safety

December 10, 2007 No Comment

The theme of the December meeting of the Nova Woodturner’s Guild was lathe and woodturning safety. Ken Parsons, an experienced woodworker and wood turner who has been practicing his craft for over forty years, was the guest speaker. An expert in woodworking and cabinet making Ken also does custom production work in both spindle and [...]

Turned Pens Of Hickory / Zebrawood

December 4, 2007 No Comment

Here’s a couple of more pens that I turned this afternoon. Both are the American Flattop style. The one the left is made of Hickory and the one on right is made of Zebrawood. When I first started to turn the Hickory I thought it was quite plain but when finished it showed a great [...]