Diane's Vase

Sometimes I post photos of my craft show table displays on social media, and sometimes someone reaches out and asks to buy something in those photos. So it was with this vase. This was only the third vase I'd turned for the large, glass inserts. The first two presented greater problems than this one did. Wood, even relatively dry wood, sometimes changes shape after it's turned. I put the insert in the first vase as soon as it was finished. By morning, the wood had shrunk or distorted enough to grip the insert tight. It will never come out for cleaning, but on the plus side, it won't fall out on the floor and break when someone turns the vase over to look at the bottom. (To my credit, I did that only once. So far.) That first vase is stout. I wanted a slimmer profile and learned on the second vase that the outside can't be smaller than the inside.    • Exploding Vase   The vase in this video took several hours. Most of that time was not in the sanding but in boring the hole. Don't worry. Nearly all of that is on the virtual cutting room floor. Just starting out in woodturning? Learn some basics @TurnAWoodBowl I learn advanced techniques on YouTube mostly from two masters, one young and one my age, ‪@tomislavtomasicwoodturning‬ and ‪@RichardRaffanwoodturning‬ If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer    / oregonoldtimer   you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until 2021. I watched a few woodturning videos, read a David Ellsworth book, and got the bug. Prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started. After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with bed extensions that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expected this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life, but lathes are like boats: You always want a bigger one. Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner. My other channel: ‪@OregonOldTimer‬ Woodturning products are usually available on my Etsy shop: https://ericrushwoodturning.etsy.com and maybe on my website: https://www.ericrush.com