I had a Griffin Odyssey Spider that clamped to the table, but I found that kind of limiting. It was shorter than was comfortable, and I found myself hunching. I wanted something taller that I could move around, so I decided to build a base for it. I kept my eye out for the right…

My friend Erin at Red Cottage Fiber Studio sent me some photos of a well used (and slightly misused) darning ball for mending fabric that she found at a yard sale. Looks like it was made from a piece of oak. I had a chunk of cherry from their property sitting in my shop, so…

Last week we got invited to a last-minute birthday party the night before. I wanted to turn something on the late that night anyway, so I decided to make a kitchen mallet for a gift. Sometime to crush ice, make cutlets, smash cucumbers, crack peppercorns, etc. I turned it out of a cherry limb that…

In an effort to post more, here is an oak cup I turned recently and mentioned briefly in a weekly post that I think deserves its own post. I’ve had this piece of oak in the workshop for a couple years. I roughed it round at some point and abandoned whatever I had in mind…

In 2020 I helped my dad split some huge oak rounds for firewood. The grain was so straight that I had to grab a couple pieces. At some point in early 2021 I planed them down flat. I think I had three individual foot-long slabs. I’ve used them for various projects the last couple years.…