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Safety Tips For The Woodturner II

Well, here we are again, folks, for another round of woodturning safety tips! Yeah, I know, you can never get enough of them! So, because of that, there’s no waiting around, we’ll dive right in: Move the tool rest out of the way, or better yet – remove it all together, before sanding and finishing [...]

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Safety Tips For The Woodturner

April 30, 2012 No Comment

As you may have guessed, I find woodturning to be a very enjoyable part of my woodworking. It offers a chance to explore another area of my creativity which sometimes results in a more immediate finished project. However, along with this opportunity for more workshop fun this area of working with wood comes with it’s [...]

Woodworkers Safety Week 2012

April 29, 2012 No Comment

The week of April 30th to May 4th has been designated as Woodworkers Safety Week 2012! As you all know it is important that safety is on your mind every week of the year but Woodworkers Safety Week likes to put special emphasis on it. Safety Week was started back in 2008 by Marc Spagnuolo [...]

Get Back To Our Roots

April 25, 2012 2 Comments

My daughter invited me for a hike recently along a local trail and once again I was awestruck by the natural beauty of the medium in which we, as workers of wood, work. This happens to me every time that I enter a forest. I enter with a nonchalant, no thought of, a really unaware [...]

Three Segmented Pens

April 13, 2012 No Comment

Here’s three segmented pens that I made a couple of month’s ago. It had been a while since I made any pens so I thought it was time to do a few special ones. All three are made with the Sedona style pen kits. Each of them feature a different plate finish. One is in [...]

The SplinterBike Project

April 12, 2012 No Comment

No bolts or screws, just wood and glues! The SplinterBike, a 100% wooden bicycle, is a world speed record holder! The SplinterBike project came about after a casual bet between friends, Michael Thompson and James Tully, turned serious. The challenge was to design and build a 100% wooden bicycle. Read that again – one hundred [...]

04/11/12 – Woodworking Tips And Tidbits

April 11, 2012 2 Comments

Here’s a few tips that I picked up lately. They come from a variety of sources including books, magazines, newsletters, online, personal experience and readers like you. 1. Keep your spare jigsaw blades together by using a shower curtain hanger as a ‘key ring’. It’s just the right size to fit the holes in most [...]

Happy Easter 2012

April 8, 2012 No Comment

Happy Easter everyone! I hope that the Easter Bunny was good to you! Here what the Easter Bunny left us: These turned eggs are possibly not as delicious as the Cadbury chocolate eggs with the ooey gooey centers but I can guarantee that they will last a lot longer! And speaking of chocolate here’s my [...]