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Some Thoughts On Choosing Your Lathe There's always some apprehension when trying to figure out what is "right for you" when on the excursion for finding woodturning equipment.  Hughie has some insights in this article to hopefully point you in the right direction....unless of course, it points you in a dozen new directions!! Read the Full Story

The Contest Is On

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Sponsor Award Winners!


We are pleased to announce the completion of the
Beauty And The Beast
Sponsor Award Drawing

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The Beauty And The Beast

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Artist On The Cover

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Jerry Prosise Every now and then, you run into someone, whose initial manner suggests an attractive level of class.  Then when you look further, you find a very well grounded, artistic, and devoted individual, who just so happens to be a woodturner who regularly dazzles those around him.  Jerry Prosise is that type of individual. Read the Full Story

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TurningTips

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Basic Turning Photography I hear a lot of people say “I can’t take decent pictures of my turnings” or “I am a woodturner, not a photographer” or “it’s too complicated”. Well, I've said all those things as well, but the bottom line is why do you spend all that time turning a beautiful piece of art just to display it to the world on the internet with a poor quality photograph? Read the Full Story

The 24th Annual Symposium Drawing

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24th Annual Symposium Drawing
And the Winner of the Free 2 Day Pass to the 24th Annual Symposium Is....... Read the Full Story

Turning Club Events

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24th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM Friday, January 27 & Saturday, January 28, 2012

The Tennessee Association of Woodturners (TAW) will be presenting their annual Symposium on Friday, January 27th and Saturday, January 28th, 2012. The Symposium will again be held at the Radisson Hotel at Opryland on Music Valley Drive across from Opryland, Nashville, Tennessee. The hotel has recently completed a full renovation, which includes a new restaurant.

The 2012 Symposium features some of the world’s leading woodturners including Al Stirt, Dale Larson, Jennifer Shirley, Ashley Harwood and Mark Gardner. Read the Full Story

Editorials

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So Many Choices So Little Time Woodturners face a market place filled with tools made from many different steels. It wasn’t always the case. Journeyman woodturners of several hundred years ago not only dealt with treadle operated lathes or water powered lathes if they were lucky, but they had very few choices in tooling materials. Read the Full Story

Tool Basics

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Build A 16 Inch Steady Rest


This steady rest is made to fit my PM 3520 B.  It is not my original design.  Several members of our club have them.  I borrowed my mentors rest to complete a project and took the measurements.   Read the Full Story

Techniques

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10 Minute Finish I am a very impatient person. When I turn a piece the last thing I want to do is spend 3 or 4 days applying a finish. Not that there is anything wrong with spending a great deal of time applying a finish, after all the finish can make or break a piece. I’ll fore warn you that if a heavy, glass like finish is what you like then my 10-minute finish is not for you. If you like a nice soft natural shine that lets you feel the wood you may want to give this a try. Read the Full Story

Out Of The Woods

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Aspen The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by contrast, is native to warmer regions, with hot, dry summers. These trees are all medium-sized deciduous trees ranging 15–30 meters tall. Read the Full Story

Turn Safe

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Chainsaws When a lot of us first started out in woodturning, we went nuts creating a variety of shapes using whatever scraps of wood we had laying around the shop!  It was a lot of fun but we soon started looking around for other sources of wood and we discovered – green wood!  One of the major benefits of woodturning is that you can take a chunk of wood straight from the tree and turn a finished form from it! 

For those of you not familiar with the term, Green wood is used to describe wood products that have been recently cut and have therefore not had an opportunity to "season" (dry) by evaporation of the internal moisture. The term is used often in describing the relative moisture content of wood products such as firewood and lumber. 'Green wood' being recently cut and high in moisture relative to 'seasoned wood' being lower in moisture because of drying due to the passage of time (seasons) or forced wood drying as in kilns. Green wood is considered to be 100% moisture content relative to air dried or seasoned wood which is considered to be 20%.  (Wikipedia) Read the Full Story