bowl turning
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VIDEO: How to Core Several Bowls from One Blank
In this instructional video, Ernie Conover explains the process for coring multiple bowls from one burl blank.
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VIDEO: Woodturning with Green Wood or Dried Bowl Blanks
Learn how to turn bowls from green wood or seasoned wood bowl blanks. Should you turn your bowls from green wood bowl blanks or seasoned (dried) wood bowl blanks?
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VIDEO: Turning a Closed Form Bowl
Learn the basics of how to make a closed form bowl on the lathe. A closed form bowl has an interior that is bigger than the mouth opening.
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Keeping the Bark On?
How can I prevent the bark from falling off thin slabs of tree trunks for my scrolling project? Is there a chemical I can add to them?
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Re-Turning a Rough Turned Bowl Blank
You’ve done the first turning and left your green wood bowl to dry. Now it’s time to re-turn it to final shape.
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VIDEO: How to Re-Turn a Rough Turned Bowl
In this video, Ernie Conover covers the basics of re-turning a green rough-turned bowl after it has dried for a period of time.
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Options for Drying Green Bowl Blanks
Our woodturning expert presents three methods that can speed up or improve the drying of green wood blanks.
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Woodpecker’s Ultra-Shear Woodturning Tools
Nano-grain carbide inserts and modified tool shanks enable these woodturning tools to achieve new shear-cutting angles for optimal smoothness.
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How Should I Dry Some Walnut “Firewood” Logs?
I was lucky enough (I think) to be given some newly cut walnut. The “giver” planned to use it as…
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Four-Jaw Scroll Chucks
How to choose and use the right four-jaw scroll chuck for your woodturning projects.
