In this video, we take a large and heavy piece of yew and turn it into a refined wooden form. Yew is known for its dramatic ...

Believe it or not, until recently I had never done any turnings. I have been messing with wood for a solid twenty years and never once have I even turned on a lathe. I’ve seen Norm do it a bazillion ...

Woodturning - I Maxed Out My Lathe In this woodworking video I use a woodturning lathe to turn a large spalted beech log into a beaded vase. When woodturning a piece like I find it important to nibble ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are a lot of different skills and techniques that woodworkers can employ to turn raw lumber into something that is both useful and ...

When we enter the Mather House Woodturning Studio on a Friday evening, Jack B. Smith ’19 accosts us with a small slab of Hawthorn wood. “Smell it!” he insists. Smith has been a regular at this studio ...

If you’d custom-order a wood-turned bowl made from scratch by craftsman Robert Nelson, it likely would take nine months before he’d start working on it. It has nothing to do with Nelson’s talent or ...

When someone says ‘wood lathe’ the average person would think of a lathe used for turning pieces of wood into ornate shapes. But what if that lathe was also made of wood. Would that be a wood wood ...