100 bowls in 100 days
The other day I decided that I need a new challenge. So just like one of the great thinkers of our time, Winnie the Pooh, I sat down and kept hitting my head with my hand all the while repeating “Think, think, think”. And after a little while it came to me that hitting my …
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Headed out to Cape Cod
Here are three Curly Maple Salad Bowls that are headed to Cape Cod. Well they are actually already there. I sent these bowls out a couple weeks ago to Woodworks Gallery in Brewster, Mass. I just haven’t had time to post about them. The largest of the three bowls is 14 inches in diameter …
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My views on the Totally Turning symposium 2013
I got back from the Totally Turning symposium late last night. This is the second year that I have attended this symposium. Totally Turning takes place in Saratoga Springs, New York and is a really good mid-sized woodturning symposium. The symposium takes place at the Saratoga Springs City Center (their name for the convention center) and …
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Colorful Morrison mill set
As many of you know, I like colorful things. A lot! I like to add color to plain pieces to liven them up. Recently I’ve been making ash mills and dying them all one color. Sometimes I add a liming wax to knock the color down and it adds a secondary color to subtly contrast the base color. Those …
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Feeling Blue?
I had a request recently by a gallery to make a set of mills that I used to do a long time ago. This is an 8 inch set of Morrison mills turned from ash and then dyed blue. Most of the time I would air brush the dye on but this time I didn’t want to take …
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Check out this mill set
This is a special 8 inch salt and pepper mill set made in Maple, Oak and Walnut that I just finished up for a customer. The block starts out as 24 layers of 1/8 inch thick wood that has been laminated together. There are two layers of Maple, one layer of Walnut and two layers …
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