The Patriot's Wounded Warrior Christmas Raffle is on! There are some great prizes donated by our very generous sponsors. But the real winners are going to be the Bassett kids on Christmas morning.

 

Please consider purchasing tickets and let's make this the best Christmas ever for the Bassett family. More information about the family and the raffle is in this post-

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

The turning club that @Gerald belongs to is having a demo and sales event. Gerald build a test arena to provide the kids a testing place for the spinning tops. Nothing like hands on to boost sales!

 

 

 

@HandyDan is hard at work making Christmas ornaments. You have to look really hard to realize these are not real electric lights!

 

Dan describes his techniques in his post-

 

 

@Ron Altier showed us another on of his beautiful ornaments. 

 

We know Ron turns a fair number of pieces but wait until you read his post and just where those pieces end up!

 

 

@John Morris turned some ornaments for the Easy Wood Tools Christmas tree. According to John, this was a family collaboration-

 

John describes his process in this post-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

The American Association of Woodturners, 33rd Annual International Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 11-14, 2019

For more information and registration- http://The American Association of Woodturners 33rd Annual International Symposium Raleigh, North Carolina July 11-14, 2019

 

 

For The Newbies-

In keeping with the Christmas theme, Tim Yoder has posted a simple, spindle turned bottle stopper. These would make nice gifts for friends and relatives. Tim uses a Ruth Niles stopper.

 

If you have never used Ruth's products, you owe it to yourself to try the very best!

https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Mike Peace added a continuing video to the ornament posted last week. In this video he demonstrates turning and adding a finial to the hollow sphere.

 

 

Those of you that use carbide tools may be aware that Easy Wood Tools has recently added negative rake cutter to their line. These cutters can be used to replace the standard EWT cutter. The negative rake cutter was originally created to produce smoother cuts on acrylic casting. Turners have found the cutters work equally on hardwoods ( @Jim from Easy Wood Tools )

 

Tracey Malady posted a video demonstrating these new cutters

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

I saw these on the Ruth Niles site. They would make a great gift for the Espresso lover-

 

More information at Ruth's site-

https://nilesbottlestoppers.com/product/coffee-tamper/

 

 

Everything Else-

Last week, I mentioned an offset turning jig used in a Rick Turns video. Rick responded to my question about the jig. It is from Ron Brown. Rick provided the link to the product as well as a video of it in use.

 

https://www.ronbrownsbest.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=63)

 

 

 

I have been working on Christmas present and finished up the last 3 bowls/dishes today (5 in total). These are small flame box elder turnings finished with some Bumble Bee Butter (bee's wax and mineral oil). I heat the mixture until it becomes liquid, then apply and buff off.  Turned completely with Easy Wood Tools.

 

 

Safe turning

Beautiful ornaments everyone! 

And as usual great weekly roundup Lew! 

Made these yesterday 

Lew those are very nice bowls. As usual a very through and informative post

Love your bowls Lew.  Very nicely shaped.  The off center chuck really caught my eye too.

 

Thanks for the nod on my ornaments.

 

Edited December 6, 20187 yr by HandyDan

Nice job again Lew, thanks!

@Larry Buskirk Thank You!!

 

@DAB Thanks! Those are some sweet looking bowls, too!

 

@Gerald Thank You!!

 

@HandyDan Thanks and thank you for posting that awesome Christmas light ornaments how-to!

 

@Steve Krumanaker Thank You!!