Monthly Archives: March 2009

South Auckland Woodturners Guild

Posted on March 13, 2009 Filed Under Other turners

Facebook, what an amazing network. While perusing Mike Mahoney’s Facebook I found one of his friends to be interesting, since he was also turning on a Stubby. I Invited Terry Scott to my friend list. After a Facebook friend invite we got to networking and I got linked to the clubs website and newsletter. Some [...]

Chip Carving 101

Posted on March 11, 2009 Filed Under chip carving

I have been practicing my chip carving lately. My plan is to use this skill to enhance turnings. I like this craft because it is reasonably simple in concept and it only requires 2 knives as tools, also it can be performed almost anywhere you can sit down. Well maybe not a plane……. I’m guessing [...]

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Weed Pot

Posted on March 7, 2009 Filed Under Hollow Forms

Its been a while since my last post, that’s because I have been to Mexico and back on a cruise That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy! A couple of projects were in the finishing phase: large weedpot and walnut humidor Cover movies . Large Weed pot My daughter wanted a large wood vessel [...]

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