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Test Tube Vases

Making Test Tube Vases from "Special" Scrap Wood
By John D. Wiliams

In this short photo tutorial, John shows us how he uses small chunks of wood to make beautiful wood vases that can hold test tubes allowing you to use water in your vase.

We love this project because as John points out, we all have saved stacks of small chunks of wood in our shop. And it's nice to have a handy project that doesn't require purchased wood!!

We hope that you'll give it a go!!

Making Test Tube Vases from "Special" Scrap Wood

Featured Turning Article

Sanding Adhesive

What Makes a Quality Sanding Abrasive?
by Vince Welch

As turners, we all use sandpaper, some of us more than others.

So, that being a fact, it's good to learn about good turning and tool control. These will help reduce the amount of sanding we will have to do.

And it's good to learn about sandpaper as there are many different quality levels of sandpaper. Using the right sandpaper can help to reduce the amount of sanding too!

So, we looked around and found that Vince over at Vince's Wood-n-Wonders had written a document that does a good job at explaining all the different varieties of sandpaper, how sandpaper is made and how to identify one for the purposes that you need it for!

We think that this document is a must read for all turners!

(Warning: this is a 42 page pdf file whose size is ~5 MB, so it's best downloaded on a broadband connection)

What Makes a Quality Sanding Abrasive?

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New from Lyle Jamieson

Lyle Jamieson Bowl DVD

Bowl Basics - The Easy Way

This new two disc DVD set is a comprehensive step-by-step tutorial covering every aspect of bowl turning, and includes over 4 hours and 20 minutes of excellent video instruction. This set should be of interest to all turners, regardless of experience level. The beginning bowl turner can follow and duplicate each step and complete a bowl while also learning a solid process of work. The experience turner will be challenged to question each stop of their process and technique, and will almost certainly come away with some new ideas.
The DVD set is organized into logical chapters by topic, which allows a quick review when you have a question about something earlier in the process. Each cut is carefully explained by both demonstrating the technique, and showing “how” it works on the wood.

I like to remember Lyle's statement about "catches":
If you don't know what caused your catch, you're bound to duplicate it"

Learn Lyle's techniques to bowl turning and reduce your "catches"!

You can learn more about this new DVD and purchase it at:

https://www.lylejamieson.com/cart/shop.asp

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