The lightbulb finally goes on.
As I get older I realize that I need more light to see what I’m working on. I’ve been looking around for a light that was more than just a spot light to better help me see my work on the lathe. Last fall when I was teaching bowl...
A custom pen for me
Each year I make a few hundred custom pens for people all over the world. Customers contact me and tell me what they are looking for and I take it from there. We start out with the type of writing instrument that they want: ball point, roller ball or...
Bowls for awards
Back in the spring I was contacted about making a series of shallow bowls to be used as awards for a tennis tournament. We ironed out the details and just had to wait and see if the rules in our state would allow the tournament to take place in...
Whiskey and Bog Oak?
Recently I made eight Katahdin ballpoint pens all from Oak. So what is so special about that, you ask. Well, six of them were made from barrel staves from whiskey barrels. And the other two? Those two were made from ancient bog oak from eastern Europe. The bog oak...
Making a bowl from a log – Part 1
The Curly Maple log pictured below is 42 inches across horizontally and about 35 inches vertically. The chain saw sitting on top of the log has a 36 inch bar on it and right behind it you can see the helmet that I wear when cutting up a log. ...