Frank Howarth, who has a shop that would put most woodworkers to shame, made the beautiful bowl seen in the picture above as a wedding present. Naturally, a bowl like this takes a lot of work to make (seriously, a lot), as seen in the video below. Frank started out with two pieces of wood, […]
Chris Bathgate has been making incredibly detailed and finely machined sculptures for several years. When we saw him, we were immediately infatuated with his work, and have kept an eye on him since. Recently, he has been exploring new methods such as 3D printing, and even creating works of art from his blueprints. Since the […]
Buying Christmas presents for all your friends is generally not the easiest thing to do. If, however, some of your friends are sculptors, and you have skill using a lathe like imgur user volpinprops, perhaps you could make them custom carving tools. The result, as seen in the gallery below, look great. These shaping tools […]
Lathes are an interesting piece of “maker gear,” but the typical garage would seem more likely to have a table saw than a lathe available. If for some reason you need to make a wooden bowl and only have a saw around, Izzy Swan now has a solution with his custom jig. In his setup, […]
Here you see me make a spoon using a chunk of Bubinga wood I had leftover from a project.
Peter Brown is back with another peculiar marriage of non-standard materials and a lathe. Last time we saw him make a very interesting ring out of colored pencils and this time he’s working with denim to make a bracelet. At first mention, you might be envisioning some sewing of some kind but that doesn’t appear […]
This exquisite example of non-standard material use really brightened up my day. I love the idea of making stuff from materials that weren’t intended for the final product. In this case, Peter Brown wanted to do some colorful wood working, so he glued a bunch of colored pencils together to get the raw material for […]
