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I was given a very old Central Machinery lathe recently, and this is my first attempt at making a bowl. It's a simple and light design, and I'm quite happy with it as a first go. I didn't have any plan going into it, and just designed it freehand. It's curly spalted maple that I milled myself...

The Oneway Wolverine Grinding jig is a must for grinding your bowl gouges but I didn't want to pay $55 for one. When I was at the Baltimore Woodworking show, I took pictures and measurements of the one they had one display and tried to replicate the parts/dimensions. It holds my gouges tightly...

Here's a bandsaw box which I keep on my desk. The top drawer is divided into two parts. One holds paperclips, and the other part holds rubber bands. The bottom drawer houses some shop made fountain pens and rollerballs. The insides of the drawers were flocked with brown flocking. My son and...

This piece was a joy to turn. Most pieces are until they aren't. This one was never not. I am calling this Elm because I am not sure what it actually is and I've already turned a few pieces from this tree and called it elm. Its so soft (and green) so it cuts like butter. It immediately turns...

I started this project shortly after getting my worksharp 3000, and it served as a test/training for me on how to use it. With a soft wood like this cedar sharp tools are essential, so I quickly learned to use the worksharp which made all the difference, especially with all the knots in this...

This is the third bowl I turned, and the second made of birch. I managed to get the sides a little thinner, and the bottom thinner as well. I almost avoided tear-out on the end-grain sides of the bowl, only using the bowl gouge, but there was a little, so I sanded to clean things up. Turned...

This is my first cardinal carving. I made it for my mother as a Christmas gift.

Full disclosure - I bought a couple of glued-up bowl blanks from Green Valley Wood Products because all of my bowl blanks are wet/green wood. I currently have about 10 rough-turned green bowls drying in my shop, but I wanted a kiln-dried blank that could be turned and gifted (this was given to...