As wood dries the size along the grain stays pretty much the same but across the grain it shrinks. This can be a problem when producing bowls. Two ways to avoid this is to make sure the wood is properly dried before turning another popular solution is to “twice-turn”. A twice-turned bowl is initially turned […]
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I had a little jaunt down to Inverness on Wednesday to visit a sawmill and a tree surgeons to shop for timber and I’ll share more on this later (once I’ve unloaded the truck, but not today as it’s bad weather – welcome home!). Whilst looking at the various pieces of timber at Epic Tree
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Yesterday, I made a couple of new turning tools, a point tool, and a multi-purpose tool. I used 10mm diameter by 200mm long high-speed steel bar stock purchased on eBay for the “working end”. The first job was to turn a couple of handles. I used Elm for the handles, as this is what I
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