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If you enjoy wood turning, you surely spend some time preparing turning blanks. Sometimes it’s nice to work with thick stock and simply cut it to the dimensions that you need. But other times, you might not have thick enough stock, or perhaps you just want to incorporate some different colors into your project to enhance the visual appearance.

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Seasoning Your Own Wood Turning Blanks From Fallen Tree Limbs.: A recent storm broke 2 large limbs on the big cherry tree in my garden. Rather than cut them up for fire wood I decided to turn them into blanks and leave them to season naturally for future use. Cherry is a hard wood that would be expensive …

a man is working on some wood in the yard with text overlay that reads how to make green wood bowl blanks

Making a green wood bowl blank is essentially the process of preparing a particular piece of fresh cut wood, to a given size and shape. Creating a green wood bowl blank involves removing as much of the surrounding excess wood as possible in preparation for the blank to later be easily turned on the lathe.

a wooden block with the words 5 steps to prepare rough wood for turning on it

The key to successful woodturning is preparing the wood to turn, securing wood on the lathe so that you can shape it with your tools and not have the wood fly off. Learn these 5 steps so you can use rough wood and odd shapes on your lathe.

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In this video, Allan Batty takes you through the make up of the skew chisel and the six basic cuts everyone should know. He shows the proper methods of using the skew, along with “tricks of the trade”, so that you can produce superb results without the “dig-ins” that are so common with the skew. Allan continues from there to instruct on the proper use of the beading and parting tools along with spindle and roughing gouges. The videography is top notch, showing every detail of the cut as it…

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A quarter sawn wood bowl reveals a woodturner’s attention to detail and craftsmanship with the natural resource being turned. Make a quarter sawn wood bowl

a large piece of wood is being worked on by a man with an ax in his hand

Seasoning Your Own Wood Turning Blanks From Fallen Tree Limbs.: A recent storm broke 2 large limbs on the big cherry tree in my garden. Rather than cut them up for fire wood I decided to turn them into blanks and leave them to season naturally for future use. Cherry is a hard wood that would be expensive …

a hand holding a small wooden bowl in it's left hand with the words turn a wood bowl on top

Bowl turning grain orientation of a bowl blank can seem like a confusing puzzle when we first begin bowl turning. Here are several illustrated examples…

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