Fair Game
I had a clever idea: make a bowl for the State Fair and use it to raise money for Chapel Hill Woodturners. I had no idea it would take six glue-up sessions.
A Bird in the Hand
A birdhouse I never planned to make again became a commission, a postal adventure through Puerto Rico, and a new flock of woodturned Christmas ornaments.
Worth Turning?
A damp, slug-covered persimmon log spent years banished to the back of my garage. Eventually, curiosity—and my inability to turn down free wood—won out. Here are the baby pictures of its transformation from questionable firewood to gallery-bound hollow form.