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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Kim and the Skew
I watched a woodturning demo a while ago by Al Mather. He happens to be a friend from Princeton, Maine. Al was demonstrating how to properly use the skew. For those that don’t know, the skew is probably the most feared tool in woodturning. We all make mistakes (catches) from time to time while we …
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Please, give me a name
The guy that writes this blog found me last night in a block of wood that he was carving but he’s not going to paint me until he has a name for me. I heard him say something about a name would help him figure out what colors I should be. You should know that I’m a guy …
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My first woodcarving
As if woodturning isn’t enough to keep me busy, recently I’ve been learning how to carve wood. Those of you that have known me for a while know that I have carved on my woodturnings for a few years now. So it might seem strange to hear me say that I’m learning to carve wood. I should …
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Becca’s carving at the Maine Woodcarvers Show
I have been interested in carving wood for a while now but I don’t ever seem to have the time to do any carving. Every now and then I can incorporate a little carving into one of my turnings but I don’t do it very much. About a year ago, maybe more, Becca (our 13-year-old) and I …
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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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