Our Patriot Turners-

@FrederickH is working on more of that red oak burl from a tree in his front yard.

Check out his post for more images and our member's comments and how Rick fixed his lathe!

New member, @George Shaw is searching for a McNaughten Center Saver. If you may know someone who is selling one, please let him know.

You can reply to him here-

George also posted pictures of some of his gorgeous turnings!

You can see more of his work in this post-

@RustyFN Tried his hand at ornament turning. I'd say he nailed it on his first attempt!!!

You can read his thoughts on how he did, in his post-

His comment about the finial designed jogged my memory on Cindy Drozda's finials. Someone did a study of Cindy's finial shapes and figured out the ratio and proportions for her design. Here's a spreadsheet where you can plug in either the height OR base diameter and it calculates all of the other values.

Finial Calculations.xlsx

And a PDF of many of her designs.

drozda_finials.pdf

What's Coming Up-

This is last weeks live demonstration from the Woodturning Tool Store on a live edge bowl-

Click on the image below for more information and registration-

For The Newbies-

A tip from Tim Yoder. Something you may not have thought of as a use for your tool rest.

Tomislav Tomasic Discusses bowl gouge sharpening-

A cool way to practice your spindle turning skills from Popular Woodworking-

Expand Your Horizons-

Carl Jacobson turned a beautiful maple burl. A unique shape-

So, You have turned some lovely vases but your flowers keep dying. John Lucas has a solution

@Gerald and many of our members use color to embellish their turning. Sam Angelo experiments with Jo Sonja paints to embellish some plates

One of our turners, @Steve Krumanaker, turns lids for a local "bee artisan". This video, from Mike Pace, shows how he turns lids-

Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-

Easy Wood Tools Demo next week-

Turners Warehouse

Easy Wood Tools in action!

Check out the negative rake cutter on acrylic-

JP Woodwork turns a simple candy dish-

I needed to order some specialty supplies for a project. The only place I could find what the church wanted was on Amazon. The total cost was just under the amount for free shipping (don't do Prime). When that happens I will sometimes add an Easy Wood carbide cutter to make up the difference. Just for the fun of it, I decided to check the Easy Wood Tools main site (not Amazon). If you need to get an Easy Wood Tools product, get it directly from them in Kentucky and save yourself some $$$!!!!!!!!

@Jordan Martindale

New Turning Items-

A new tool bit holder, from Robert Sorby tools, to aid in sharpening-

Woodturners Wonders is having a brief sale.

Woodturners wonders

Everything Else-

Safe turning

Thanks Lew. Loved the Mike Peace video. I would have loved to make some of those.

Thanks for the post Lew. Loved the flowers, also ideas on burls as I have a lot of cherry. The only Josana I have done is in my avatar which I did for a retiring church administrator.

I agree about the Mike Peace video ...I may have to try that.

Thanks Lew

Little late getting back here,,

@HandyDan Thank You!

@Gerald Thanks! Love that platter!!

@Fred W. Hargis Jr Thank You!

@RustyFN Thanks!