Resources, Sources, Handouts, Tools, etc for Carl’s Students.
Updated: 11/16/2021. This is still the list of book and DVDs that I recommend. Added “YouTube, Vimeo, Etc” section to the end.
Updated: 5/24/2018. Add “Project Books” section and Jordan “The Aesthetics & Properties of Wood” DVD.
Here are the books and DVDs I recommend to students when I teach a class.
You may be able to get these books from your local library, otherwise purchase from Packard Woodworks Inc or Craft Supplies USA or Amazon. I often save money by purchasing used books via Amazon.
Click here for the PDF demo handout.
Turning new Antique Candlesticks is a great way to improve your spindle turning skills and use up scraps of wood.
I call them “antiques” because I use up old scraps of wood with cracks and knots. Then I use Milk Paint to give them that antique look and feel.
Please contact me if you would like me to do this demo for your club or symposium.
Click here for PDF file of Tool Sharpening Templates.
Continue reading Gouge Sharpening Templates
Here is my response to an e-mail asking about woodburners.
I currently own and use a Detail Master Excalibre (the silver one with 2 ports) with lots of different Fixed Tip Detail Master Vented pens (the silver aluminum ones). I also have a couple of Razertip Tips sets that I mount in a Razertip interchangeable tip pen.
If I was buying a new system today I would purchase a Burnmaster Eagle (the red one with 2 ports) with Burnmaster Replaceable Tip Pen and Tips. The 10 tips available from Burnmaster are good for beginners. In the long run you can add more tips by purchasing sets of tips from Razertip.
Currently the $259 “Burnmaster Eagle” available from “Packard Woodworks and other retailers for roughly the same price looks real good to me. I like having 2 pens and only need one set of 10 interchangeable tips.
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I love to turn green wood and I love to turn natural edge bowls.
This demo focuses on turning medium size (10 to 12″) natural edge bowls using the versatile David Ellsworth Signature Gouge. A natural edge bowl will be turned from start to finish. Topics will include wood selection, selecting and cutting the raw log, mounting the blank, the David Ellsworth Signature Gouge (cuts and sharpening), keeping the bark on, reverse jam chucking and/or vacuum chucking.
Note: Natural Edge, Live Edge, Bark Edge. They are all the same thing. A bowl with the tree bark left on the top edge of the bowl.
Please contact me if you would like me to do this demo for your club or symposium.
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Adding color via paint and/or stain to your turnings is a great way to spice up boring wood. It allows you to make beautiful pieces out of cheap wood. Painting with the lathe running is easy! Anyone can do it.
This demo focuses on three different easy techniques: • Painting between the lines using Acrylic Paints. • Coloring between the lines using Sharpe Permanent Magic. Markers. • Full coverage color using Woodburst Stains.
Please contact me if you would like me to do this demo for your club or symposium.