Our Patriot Turners-

I'm afraid it is too late for @RustyFN. He's become addicted to making ornaments. Of course that's a good thing for us! We get to view his awesome work!

Lots of positive comments on both Rusty's posts for you to check out!

@calabrese55 showed us a really neat trick for measuring the wall thickness of hollow turnings/bowls without having to use a ruler! Really easy to make and use, too!

Check his post for more information!

Mike also posted some images of his segmented wood/acrylic vessels that had a catastrophic failure sometime after it was created.

In this post, he tells us a little more about what happened and the future of this piece-

What's Coming Up-

Preregistration discounts, for the AAW Symposium, will be ending soon. If you are going, you can save some bucks by preregistering!

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Cindy Drozda's live Tool Talk will be Friday, February 27, 2026

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Woodturning Tool Talk Live with Cindy

In this Tool Talk session, I'm going to do my favorite woodturning exercise: The Pommel Cut. And a little play with the Sorby Texturing Tool. It’s free and open to everyone, and is live every other F

For The Newbies-

In the beginning of February, we posted the "4 Ways" collaboration on planning your turning. Well, Mike Peace decided to wing it with tis bowl-

Need some spindle practice and some fun? Find a tree branch and watch Richard Raffan!

Expand Your Horizons-

Ok, @Fred W. Hargis Jr posted a great comment about @RustyFN's ornaments. Specifically about the way to turn spheres. Tomislav Tomasic has the answer in these two videos. Turning spheres, free hand seems daunting but with a little practice it's pretty easy using his method. This is very similar to the method used by Alan Stratton but with less calculations.

The first video is for getting the shape close to a sphere. The second is for chucking and finalizing the shape/sanding.

Mr. David Reed Smith made similar jam checks. To prevent slippage, he lined the recess with thin closed cell foam.

In the "General Woodworking" forum, member @BB1 has been demonstrating the versatility of 3D printing in the workshop. Not sure how many of our turners have access to a 3D printer, but, there are so many different items that can be made with this technology.

As an example-

Check out this site and see the creative ideas folks have come up with to help the woodturner.

Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-

Tim uses the EWT negative rake cutters on an acrylic project!

And the EWT demonstrators will be busy next week!

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New Turning Items-

Some sales and some new-

Woodturning Tool Store

Woodcut Pro-Mount Carving Stand - Woodturning Tool Store

The Woodcut Pro-Mount Carving Stand was born out of the need to hold chuck mounted turned work for embellishing.

Sundstrom

Jet Lathes

Everything Else-

Safe turning

Thanks for the post Lew. Funny I don't seem to watch videos til you post them.

Thanks Lew. Spheres are fun to do. A bit challenging though.

Thanks Lew

@Gerald Thank You! I hope what we post is of value.

@HandyDan Thanks!! Seems like they are the flavor of the month.

@RustyFN Thank You!