Alan Carter gave a great demonstration last night at our membership meeting and from all accounts the all-day demo was also a success. Alan’s demo for our meeting was his signature thin stemmed goblet. He went through the safety considerations and many of the tools that can be used to …
There has been music written with innumerable themes. But this is the first one I have found that was written for a woodturner. Unfortunately all we have at the moment is the story from a blog called the Spitalfields Life, a blog about the Spitalfields, a borough in the East …
Our featured demonstrator is Andy Firpo. Andy will be giving a presentation on shop safety. While this sounds like a dry subject, remember it is a subject we usually only want to talk about after the fact. When you look down and see blood all over that beautiful piece of …
There are a wide variety of objects that turners create. Those of us with mini-lathes turn things like pens, bottle stoppers & pepper mills. More recently are projects like razor handles and brushes, pendants and bracelets. I came across the website of Eric Goertz, a turner who has designed and …
The Northwest Woodturners in Beaverton, Oregon will be meeting on March 7th. The meeting will feature woodturning artist and teacher Ashley Harwood. Ashley will also be holding an all-day demo on Saturday and hands-on classes on Friday and Sunday. The Inland Northwest Woodturners in Spokane Valley are meeting on March …
Interesting story on designboom.com. This is one where old technology – a turned piece of wood – is used with new technology – a smart phone. The use of smart phones as music players has increased significantly as the storage capacity, streaming ability and sound quality has evolved. But they …
