Posted in Hands-on, Lathe, Maple, Training, Turning, Uncategorized, future projects on Jun 11th, 2008
Today was another HOT day in Texas with temps reaching near 100 degrees and me with some spare time to spend in the shop. I was looking for a project that wouldn’t take much time, so while reading in the library throne I reread the March issue of Wood Magazine and saw the plans […]
Posted in Hands-on, Lathe, Mistakes, Purple Heart, Redwood, Tools, Turning, Uncategorized on May 15th, 2008
This is one of the prettiest woods to look at but like cedar it is very soft, light and makes a terrible amount of red dust. Someday I will get some green and see how it turns. I do love the look of the wood and it always gets attention from buyers. Now I get […]
Posted in Lathe, Light, Tools, Turning, Uncategorized, antique on Feb 10th, 2008
So I bought a box full of antique glass insulators and was planning to make some more lights like I posted previously. I got them off of Ebay for a full box of 10 for $10 and I thought that was a great deal. When they got here I realized they were smaller than the […]
Posted in Lathe, Light, Texturing, Tools, Turning, antique, mesquite on Dec 31st, 2007
So this will be a short post….
As I said in my last post I wanted to experiment with some old glass insulators and see if i could make them into some shelf accent lights. I think the project was a great success. See the link on the main page to see all the pics and […]
