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Had a few flakes of snow here last night. Kinda early for these parts but they say it's going to warm up some later in the week.

 

@Ron Altier is still making his Christmas ornaments. Ron certainly can create beautiful objects from that colorful plywood-

 

You can read his post and the comments at-

 

 

 

 

@Steve Krumanaker is working on Christmas gifts. He turned a beautiful box from spalted beech-

 

Check out his post for comments and more pictures-

 

 

@HandyDan found a couple of really nice videos. The first one is about a young turner. The kid has skills-

 

The second one is on a neat way to "turn" a sphere on the lathe. It appears to work well but it does require a special setup-

 

 

 

The Woodturning OnLine newsletter came this week. Several good articles. With Christmas coming, this might be a nice little gift for someone-

 

Here's the link to the PDF tutorial by Dennis Daudelin

https://www.woodturningonline.com/assets/turning_articles/toy-soldiers-wife.pdf

 

Sometime back, we were discussing finials. Thin turning is an art in itself. Here's a link, from Woodturning OnLine, to a PDF tutorial from Honolulu Woodturners member Alan Carter. He demonstrate an awesome thin stem turning.

http://honoluluwoodturners.org/16_tips/Alan Carter_thin stem tutorial.pdf

 

Read the entire newsletter here-

http://www.woodturningonline.com/index.php

 

 

Speaking of the art of turning- @Steve Krumanaker  posted pictures of their turning club's demonstration with Cindy Drozda.

 

Check out his post for more of her art-

 

 

Rick Turns posted his list of YouTube October woodturning videos. Plenty of good stuff-

 

Safe turning 

You must have had some real spare time this week.  Lots of things to look over in this weeks wisdom post.  Love it.

 

Nicely done Lew!!

 

Steve

Keep it up . Nice to see new stuff and is I missed anything last week

Thanks, guys, for the kind comments!

Worked my way through all the info and found the long stem turning quite interesting.  I put it on the list of things to try.