Richard Raffan Cutting A Split Firewood Log Into Woodturning Blanks

Richard Raffan cutting a split firewood log into woodturning blanks

Richard Raffan cutting a maple log into turning blanks

Richard Raffan cutting a pear branch into woodturning blanks

Richard Raffan salvages split woodturning blanks

Richard Raffan cuts small logs and an old bedpost into woodturning blanks.

Richard Raffan converts a split bowl blank to eight smaller blanks.

Richard raffan cuts bowl blanks from a half log

Richard Raffan cuts an elm slice into woodturrning blanks

Richard Raffan on basic stuff woodturners need to know about wood

Richard Raffan cuts ironbark sawmill waste into woodturning blanks

Richard Raffan gets six square blanks from a sawmill offcut full of splits.

Richard Raffan on wood that's not good for bowls

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Richard Raffan converts the end of a green elm log to woodturning blanks.

Richard Raffan cuts bowl blanks from a flitch

Richard Raffan recovers useful blanks from a spalted bowl blank that split.

Richard Raffan on identifying fiddleback grain, then cutting blanks and rough-turning two bowls.

Richard Raffan cuts three woodturning blanks from a wedge of sawmill waste.

Richard Raffan cuts and turns two bowls from a half log.

Richard Raffan shows how to find and eliminate splits whilst cutting a turning blank.