Here’s a collection of small boxes that I did over the summer. They vary in size from 2″ tall to 4 1/2″ tall and they feature pyrography and staining.

A pair of the boxes also feature a small glass bead accent in the center of the lid. They are all made from Ash and finished with wipe-on poly.

Here are some photos of the individual boxes. The first ones are of the largest box, that is approximately 4 1/2″ tall X 3 1/4″ at its widest. It features a black glass bead on the lid, matching the black stained band that was burned with ‘swirls’ and ‘dots’:

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Need an easy way to finish the bottom of your woodturnings? Tired of continually screwing in and unscrewing the screws of your Cole jaws? Hate having to heat the glue gun up again? If so, then you need to make a Longworth chuck!

The Longworth chuck was developed in the late 1980′s by Leslie Douglas Longworth of the Hunter Valley Woodturners in Australia. It features a self centering mechanism that easily and quickly adjusts to the size of your turning.

The concept is quite simple – a pair of disks rotate against each other drawing in, or out, eight rubber ‘jaws’ on a series of opposing arcs. Yep, it’s that simple.

Here, let me explain how I made mine and you’ll see how easy it is to make one.

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And here’s the third textured Cherry vessel that I did recently. I call this one, The Cuspidor’ It is 6″ tall and almost 5″ in diameter at it’s widest point.

Like the previous two Cherry vessels it has been finished with tung oil and buffed to a warm shine. Also like the other two it features some texturing, but this time around the neck only.

All three of these vessels were a bit of an experiment as they were turned from a well dried Cherry log with the pith left in. After a few months they as stable as ever with no cracking. We’ll see as time goes on.

Here’s a few more photos:

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Here’s the second of three Cherry vessels that I turned recently. This one is 8″ tall and about 5 1/2″ in diameter at its widest.

The vessel has a large textured band around its lower portion that also features the burned ‘swirls’ used on the previous one. It has been finished with tung oil and then buffed to a warm shine.

Here’s some more photos:

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