Tag: wood turning

Making a Laminated Wood Plate

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Post date September 11, 2022
Categories In commentary, lamination, work process
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The North Texas Woodworker’s Association threw out a challenge for an upcoming meeting and I had to not only partake, but truly challenge myself with it. The challenge: Lamination. The Encyclopedia Britannica defines it as “Laminated wood is usually built by the parallel gluing of lumber boards in a variety of sizes and shapes according to […]

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

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Post date January 8, 2021
Categories In carbide, commentary, tools
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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 […]