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Jazzing up a Hobby Knife
By Kurt Hertzog

This project is one that I've been wanting to try for years as Kurt had published pictures of some of these knives that he had turned quite a while ago.

Luckily, I had the chance to talk with Kurt last year at the Totally Turning Symposium in Albany, NY and found out that he was putting the finishing touches on an article for submission to the Woodturning Design Magazine. The Summer 2008 edition of Woodturning Design has just come out and contains this great article.

This project is another great example on how to take an object from our normal day-to-day use and to turn it into a turning project. To me, anything is better with a wooden handle. And even better when I can do it myself!!

This project is also a wonderful learning experience! Not only do you turn the handle, you get to work with grain matching, mounting accuracy, making your own "custom home made" mounting system and even to thinking about the process flow to get the steps of the project in the right order!

I've now purchased all the local knives that I can find which enables me to send one of these to my father for Father's Day, and gives me a head start on my Christmas list already!!

Now it's your turn! We'd love to see your results! Feel free to post them in the forum for others to see!

Jazzing up a Hobby Knife

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New from Easy Wood Tools

Introducing the Ci1 Easy Rougher

It's not often when we see entirely new tool categories in today's market. But creating a dedicated roughing tool category might be in order after seeing this tool in action. But if you believe the video on this new tool, this tool also does finishing work. So, it might just be a replacement for many of your existing tools. Personally, this might be ones of those tools that you just need to run out and buy!

This tool uses a carbide-tipped cutter to hog off wood. The web site also says that it will work equally well on wet or dry woods, alabaster, soapstone and any other commonly turned materials.

This is one that I want to see myself in person! So, I'm going to take advantage of their demo at the AAW Symposium in Richmond, VA later this month. They are going to be in the Craft Supplies USA booth.

You can learn more about this tool and see the 3 video's on it's use at:

http://www.easywoodtools.com

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New Masters of Woodturning:
Expanding the Boundaries of Wood Art

By Terry Martin and Kevin Wallace

This just published book is a treasure that we believe you will want to own. The authors have selected 31 leading woodturning artists and bring you into their studios where they share techniques and the creative processes behind their designs. Artists such as Virginia Dodson, Binh Pho, Harvey Fein, Paul Fennell, and Marilyn Campbell are among those whose works are given studio-quality photographic treatment

It is a large format book (8 1/2' x 11") with a wealth of stunning full color images. You can order it today and it will be shipped as soon as it is available.

New Masters of Woodturning Information

 

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