So you want to make a River Tray?
I’d like to offer up a few lessons learned that I think will be of value for people setting out to make a river tray or table. Some are...
Crossing the Finish Line
When I was first starting out as a turner, my goal was to turn, sand, and finish a reasonably good bowl shaped object in 4 hours or less....
Inlay Techniques to Salvage a Split Bowl
I turn mostly green wood. The process I use is to: Rough out a bowl so that the wall thickness is approximately 10% of the largest...
So you want to turn a bowl?
Side Grain Bowl Turning Cheat Sheet (from Bowl Turning Class) 1. Safety – Basic Class plus Mount between centers, set tool rest, rotate...
Finishing Tips
It's ok to use sanding sealer, which is basically just thinned shellac. But do so as the first step, not the last. Or you can start with...
So you want to be a Woodturner?
Take a class before you commit, to make sure you really like it. Then go as large as you can. I have perhaps twice the money in tooling...
Design Concepts that Work for Me
Over the years I've made a fair number of ugly bowls. Initially the problems were related to poor technique, but once that was sorted I...
Got Bowls?
Care and Conservation of Wooden Bowls and Vessels This information is made available as a public service, for use by collectors of wooden...
Reflections on Rivers
I've canoed tight little whitewater creeks in North Georgia and East Tennessee, drifted down broad and gentle rivers in the Carolinas,...
