Making Swirly Laminated Turning Blanks

Choose from bowl blanks and spindle turning squares in several sizes to suit your needs.

Making swirly laminated turning blanks.

Simply gluing contrasting wood strips together to form turning blanks can add a lot of visual pizzazz. Further projects turnings and information can be found at http. New mexico woodturners meets first saturday of every month in albuquerque for the purpose of sharing tips and techniques helping each other gain turning proficiency and just having fun with woodturning. Wood blanks typically 1 2 or 4 pieces thin veneer typically 1 2 or 4 strips for each blank to be laminated.

16 different size laminate wood blocks available. I describe the method i use to trim the overlap of a layer of wood on a laminated woodturning blank. I love working with color laminated wood blocks so. But by applying the technique shown in this video it can take your turning blank to a whole new level of beauty.

Color laminated blanks for woodturning woodworking duck call making and gunstocks. A short channel update followed by a method of creating laminated blanks for wood turning. Rushing through one or more of the steps can ruin the blank s. Cut some curves in the blank with a narrow bandsaw blade and layer up some veneer with white glue then clamp up with a vise to squeeze out all the gaps and excess glue.

May 26 2017 making swirly turning blanks nm woodturners. Whatever your project frogblanks has the ideal engineered wood for you. The curves of the veneer working with the curves you turn will make some interesting patterns especially if the outside of a veneer curve matches a turned curve. Frogwood is a high quality lower density material that is ideal for general turning and woodworking.

2 25 x 10 up to 14 x 40 suitable for gunstocks turning bowls game calls peppermills etc. 3 valley road north anson maine 04958 207 635 4445. For popular woodturning projects like pepper mills pen making and bottle stoppers too name a few we offer beautiful laminated wood blanks as well including spectraply colorwood and stratabond that will add pizzazz to your woodturning projects.