It is time for my Wood Turning/Bowl Newsletter. I decided to post this on my web site rather than sending out a large file to everyone. The pandemic is certainly getting old, even for an old guy isolating in a beautiful part of the world with a heated shop full of equipment and new wood to turn. We mostly miss traveling, getting together with friends, and going to a restaurant. Weekly trips to the same old grocery store are getting old. We are even getting tired of buying mos

The following image shows a black walnut crotch. The larger branch is about 10" in diameter. The metal spike on the top of this crotch shows the planned vertical axis of the visualized bowl. There is a top view of this crotch in the gallery below that gives a better perspective of the next cuts to be made. The circular outline of the planned top of the bowl is drawn in blue. I next made vertical cuts along this circle to prepare the piece for turning. The gallery shows images

I get some unusual burls and this one is worthy of a story. The image below shows a 2 ft diameter white cedar burl with impressively thick bark. I love to turn bark edged bowls, so this one got me excited, but how to turn this one? I studied this burl for a week trying to decide the best way to turn it and one requirement was to get a bark edged bowl. The gallery of images below show the story of cutting and turning this large burl. I finally decided to cut two slabs horizont