I’ve had the nine piece carving set by Elemental Tools for three months now. Read my review on it.
Category: tools
Brass Hammer Kit Review
To be honest, I’m not sure what initially made me think that I needed a brass hammer in my tool kit. But, like clamps, you can never have too many hammers. Especially specialty hammers… Officially, this is the Penn State Industries PKBHAM Brass Hammer Woodturning Project Kit, and it was a great little kit that […]
Making a Basic Depth Gauge
I’ve blown through enough bottoms of bowls to realize two main things: I need to be more patient I probably need a depth gauge The patience I’m just going to have to work on, but I can remedy the depth gauge issue. I’ve had some ideas for a while as to how to make one. […]
Making a Mallet
One of the things that I see a lot of is in regards to what to use when whacking tools against your wood. Yes, “whacking” is the technical term I’m going with. Why? Because that’s what it feels like to me. Need to use the chisel? Whack it. Want to center and secure your live […]
Nova Comet 14 DR vs Laguna Revo 12|16
It’s been six months since I swapped out my lathe from the Nova Comet 14 DR to the Laguna Revo 12|16. I think I’m finally ready to really give a solid comparison between the two. Nova Comet 14 DR Laguna Revo 12|16 Both lathes are excellent “starter” lathes, and are (at the time of writing) […]
New Year, New Lathe
Every January 1st it’s out the the old and in with the new, right? Well, instead of resolutions and habits it happened with my lathe. I had a Teknatool Nova Comet lathe and, outside of some minor headaches due to me improving and wanting to do more, I’ve really enjoyed working with it. Unfortunately, right […]
Wood Ribbons
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that you need to keep your tools sharp. The same holds true for proper technique when using your tools. What has stuck out in my mind though is that when you get it all right you can make the wood give off some really long shavings and […]
Creating New Tools
Somewhere, at some point, I saw where another wood turner created some of their own custom tools. As per usual, I decided that I could do that too. Notice I said “could” and not “should” here. Let’s get the disclaimer out of the way… I know that I need carbide or high-speed steel for sharpness […]
Beginner’s Tools
Obviously, my new wood lathe wasn’t going to do me any good if I didn’t have the appropriate tools to use on the wood itself. So of course, I had to get some good tools for getting started. I could have gone with some nice, new, high-speed steel tools, but for the price of one […]
Getting Started
Thank you, Pinterest. For whatever reason, your algorithm started showing me some really cool-looking Christmas Trees made on lathes. Of course, true to my nature, the first thing I thought was “I could do that!” followed quickly by “I should do that!” I started by looking into what it would take to just convert my […]