When you sharpen your tools for woodturning you shape the tool to cut wood in a specific way. You may have two bowl gouges with slightly different grinds for two different purposes. How you respond to your customers may require you to sharpen your responses to maintain your competitive edge. I’ve had people come into …
Book Review “The Productivity Project” by Chris Bailey
Well there certainly are these tasks in my life that ruin my productivity. How about yours? You know the ones that are there to be done and you don’t want to do them. These are the projects that make taking out the trash and doing the dishes seem like Disneyland. Okay I’m joking on that …
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Book Review “Design the Life you Love” by Ayse Birsel
Is your life simply happening while you watch? It can feel that way sometimes. You wake up in the morning and it’s the middle of February. How did you get here? Seriously, it feels like it is still early January. You go through the motions, one foot after the other, one day following another, one …
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Which Honey Dipper Shape is Best?
Once I had turned some honey dippers I started to see them all over the place. There were many variations on the simple theme of a honey dipper. The very simple versions were straight with 4 or 5 grooves. I enjoyed turning ones with a bit of a shape, sort of like a rain drop …
Book Review: The Creative Woodturner
I am inspired by a quote from Pablo Picasso, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” In my woodturning I think I’m mostly at the “learn the rules” stage rather than being a creative woodturner. But every once in a while I try something different and am usually …
