The Renaissance Woodworker

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Renaissance Woodworker. As with every year, I was hard at work at my lathe turning out all the little gifts for friends, family, and clients. I haven’t done a turning episode in a while so I thought I would bring you all into my shop and [...]

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‘Tis the season where woodworkers venture into their shops to churn out small projects by the gross for all their friends, family, business contacts, mailman, etc., etc. Every year my wife goes to great lengths to devise new and original gifts that (gasp) mean something to the recipient. Besides the fact that she [...]

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This is just a short episode to fill in the space before the next WIA conference. I didn’t want to start a new project series with WIA coming this weekend and my coverage to follow after that. In this episode I mention my plans for upcoming episodes at the lathe and 2 more [...]

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In the last year I have started to see some stunning in lay work coming of the lathes of craftsmen around the world. In particular there have been some amazing inlaid pens with all manner of images and exotic woods put together in an intarsia like approach and then turned round and used as [...]

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This week’s episode is sponsored by Penn State Industries. I turn the new Bullet Cartridge pen and give a complete kit away at the end of the show. Also I turn this pen from acrylic and discuss how to work with this material. Finally PSI was kind enough to send two bottles [...]

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This week I give you one more small project idea for really, really late Christmas gifts. I turn this bottle stopper out of Zebrawood using a Penn State bottle stopper chuck. I mention some of my booty from Christmas and announce a new special feature for the podcast.
The blog of the week is The [...]

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I got an email the other day from Todd O up in Minnesota. Todd took up the challenge of my audience participation turning project put forth in episode 9 and made his very own Euro Screw Cap pen.
Shannon,
I finally was able to turn my pen (pictures attached). I made it out of [...]

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Ok folks, here is the long promised video of our first audience participation turning project. I pulled out all the stops on this one and chose one of my cream of the crop blanks in my stash. This is also my first attempt as compiling a complete video. I had a lot [...]

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This week we will start the first in a series of audience participation turning projects. The pen you see above is an example of the project we tackle this week. Today’s podcast discusses what you will need as well as the basic process to create this beautiful pen.
Throughout the week I [...]

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The charity auction I have mentioned in my podcast is this weekend and I needed to get a pen done to go with the Sushi box I already made. (post for that coming soon) As this auction is sponsored by a church I decided to break out some of the Olive wood I [...]

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