Redwood Burl & Purple Heart Bowl

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 […]

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Lighthouse Project

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 […]

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