Making Swirly Laminated Turning Blanks

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.

Making swirly laminated turning blanks.

16 different size laminate wood blocks available. A short channel update followed by a method of creating laminated blanks for wood turning. May 26 2017 making swirly turning blanks nm woodturners. Simply gluing contrasting wood strips together to form turning blanks can add a lot of visual pizzazz.

2 25 x 10 up to 14 x 40 suitable for gunstocks turning bowls game calls peppermills etc. But by applying the technique shown in this video it can take your turning blank to a whole new level of beauty. Frogwood is a high quality lower density material that is ideal for general turning and woodworking. Choose from bowl blanks and spindle turning squares in several sizes to suit your needs.

Wood blanks typically 1 2 or 4 pieces thin veneer typically 1 2 or 4 strips for each blank to be laminated. I describe the method i use to trim the overlap of a layer of wood on a laminated woodturning blank. For weight sensitive applications choose frogwood for extra surface hardness strength and rigidity choose frogwood rhd5. Making laminated turning blanks by bill kloepping mar 2012 the key to laminating blanks is patience.

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. 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. Whatever your project frogblanks has the ideal engineered wood for you. Rushing through one or more of the steps can ruin the blank s.

The steps for adding some wow factor to your turning blanks include the following. 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. I love working with color laminated wood blocks so.