Pricing Wood Bowls For Profit – Three Approaches
How should I go about pricing wood bowls? This is a question I asked after realizing I am turning too many stacks of finished wood bowls. The answer to pricing wood bowls isn’t easy at first glance. Many factors merge together when pricing wood bowls. Some of the contributing factors for pricing wood bowls include […]
14 Ways To Avoid Grain Tear Out With Wood Bowl
How can I avoid grain tear out on a wood bowl and get a good smooth final surface? Wood bowl grain tear out can be frustrating. There are many ways to address this issue including using sharp tools, cutting with the supported grain, speeding up the lathe, changing angles, and even treating the surface. This […]
Drying Green Wood Bowls – 6 Methods For Success
How do I start drying green wood bowls? There are many approaches for drying green wood bowls once they have been turned or roughed out, including using paper bags, a microwave, kiln, denatured alcohol, even desiccant drying beads, or just simply waiting. Inside Drying Green Wood Bowls In a dream world, we could find a […]
10 Woodturning Tips and Tricks for Wood Bowls
Woodturning tips, tricks, and secrets for making wood bowls are numerous and extremely valuable. Knowing the right woodturning tips to use at the right time can save time, money, and potential injury. As humans, we have amazing skills over other species. We can remember, visualize, plan, and communicate. These may all seem simple and straightforward, […]
Bandsaw Basics for Wood Bowl Turners
How important is it for a woodturner to have a bandsaw? A bandsaw is an essential tool for woodturners, especially wood bowl turners. The bandsaw helps remove excess material in order to make the process of turning a wood bowl more efficient. Understanding how the bandsaw works, using it safely, and showing it all due […]
Quarter Sawn Wood Bowl – How To Make
A quarter sawn wood bowl reveals a woodturner’s attention to detail and ability to genuinely connect and integrate the very nature of the natural resource being turned. A quarter sawn wood bowl is usually well-defined, clean, and somewhat graphic due to the alignment of grain pattern. A quarter sawn wood bowl showcases an artist’s ability […]
Product Photo Shoot Made Easy – Wood Bowls
The idea of a “professional” product photo shoot might sound intimidating and expensive. I can assure you it is neither. Let me walk you through the way I photograph my wood bowls, and you will see it’s very straightforward and simple. And to make this process even easier, I’ve put together a complete product photo […]
Pro Photo Setup Cheap – Shoot Wood Bowls
Product photography might sound intimidating at first. However, it really is simple and straightforward once you know how. What we’re talking about is making dedicated clean images that showcase works of art, in this case, our wood bowls. Sharing our wood bowls with the world is easier now than ever. And the way we share […]
Wood Bowl Exterior-Critical Design Moment
The wood bowl exterior is the moment woodturning mechanics meet artistry. Many of the steps in creating a wood bowl are just that, steps. However, the wood bowl exterior is a different animal. There is a critical design moment when we arrive at the wood bowl exterior stage of the turning process. Here we need […]
5 Tricks To Instantly Improve Bowl Woodturning
To improve bowl woodturning and create the “perfect” wood turned bowl may seem like an elusive, and at times, an impossible goal. Regardless where you currently stand as a woodturner, some tricks can assure more success. Most of the tricks used to take a bowl from okay to outstanding are subtle. Some of these tricks […]
