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MA’s Woodworking Projects

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		I started turning because Joe had a lathe that had barely been used in 30 years. I had to read several books and make a lot of toothpicks, but I’m starting to get the hang of it. Here I am turning a bubinga pedestal for a tiki house.
			I was quite proud of this spindle when I made it in January ’05. It was the first exercise in the book Turning Wood with Richard Raffan.
			I turned this vase from a stick of oak firewood.
			The pencil pot on the left is wood from a goodie box. I think it is holly. The one on the right is red kabbas.
			This is a collection of pieces, mostly inspired by Raffan’s book. The spheres were my own idea.
				Midway through this bubinga box (the last exercise in Raffan), I finally bought a proper bowl gouge. It sure made things easier.
				I liked my spheres so much, I made this near spherical bubinga box.
				These two bowls (maple and ash) are my largest pieces. They started out as 8”x 8”x 4” blocks. The new gouge made them possible.
		Mike Darlow’s Woodturning Methods inspired this eccentricly turned mini-pencil pot. The wood is from a goodie box, some kind of ebony, I think.
		I made this segmented bowl of walnut and maple following instructions from woodturningonline.com.
				On the left is a therming drum as described by Darlow. I made six three-sided posts of cocobola, satine, and something else (goodie box wood, again). Three of the completed posts are on the right.
		I built this display case for a tiki we bought in Papeete as an excuse to try therming.