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    Segment Stomper Details 


    Woodturner PRO announces the Segment Stomper!

    Combined with the SegEasy plates from Jerry Bennett, this solution is the fastest, most accurate method for adding open or closed-segment rings to your vessels. Please take a few minutes to watch this video:

    CLICK HERE to watch the Youtube video.

    CLICK HERE for pricing and purchase options.

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    Video Tutorial: New Wall Profile Tools in Woodturner PRO 

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    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 07-29-2012 03:39 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. Woodturner PRO,
    3. 3D Design PRO,
    4. Beginner Tutorials & Projects

    In Woodturner PRO Build v3.0.27, two tools have been added to the toolbar which lets you modify the wall profile that was imported from 3D Design PRO. These tools allow you to make changes to the wall profile without having to switch back-and-forth between 3D Design PRO and Woodturner PRO.

    If you are unable to see the entire playback area of the video, look in the lower-right corner for the work Vimeo and just to the left of it is an icon that will zoom the image to your full-screen size. ...
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    Video Tutorial: 3-Part Tutorial on designing a vessel with a Stacked Wood design 

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    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 07-10-2012 11:25 PM

    Although this video tutorial is primarily a Woodturner PRO tutorial, Part 1 shows how to use a 3rd party graphic design program to create images that can be used to create custom species in Woodturner PRO.

    SketchUp is the program I selected for the design work, but it could have been Microsoft Paint, Photoshop Elements, any of the Macintosh graphical editors, or dozens of other programs. This video shows how to create a spiral pattern using the Stacked Wood process whereby individual pieces of wood are glued or 'stacked' to create a design.

    Parts 2 and 3 are also on this page, which you will find below Part 1.

    Malcolm Farrant has prepared written instructions for creating the Stacked Wood drawing in SketchUp. I have added it to the Attachments area of this tutorial. Thanks Malcolm!

    Part 1: Creating a Stacked Wood design in SketchUp

    Stacked Wood - Part 1 from Lloyd Johnson on Vimeo.


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    Video Tutorial: Multi-Row Resize function of Woodturner PRO v3 

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    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 06-29-2012 05:05 PM
    1. Categories:
    2. Woodturner PRO,
    3. Beginner Tutorials & Projects

    This video tutorial shows the new Multi-Row Resize feature of Woodturner PRO v3.

    Multi-Row Resize from Lloyd Johnson on Vimeo.

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    VERSION 3 SOFTWARE HAS BEEN RELEASED! 

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    It's been a long time in coming, but the Version 3 release date is finally here.

    If you have purchased the Woodturner's Suite, Version 2.1 since January 1, 2012, you'll automatically be sent an authorization code that will permanently unlock the Version 3 software. You'll have to be ...
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    Video Tutorial: Integrating Lamination PRO v3 with SketchUp 

    by
    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 05-18-2012 08:46 AM
    1. Categories:
    2. Lamination PRO,
    3. Moderate Tutorials &Projects,
    4. SketchUp
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    Note: This tutorial was done using Lamination PRO Version 3.

    Integrating Lamination PRO with SketchUp is simple as you'll see. In this tutorial, I'm using images exported from Lamination PRO in SketchUp to design a game board that has a chess board on one side and a backgammon board on the other. The beauty of this approach is that it dramatically speeds up the process in SketchUp and it gives photo-realistic results so that you can see exactly what it is going to look like before you ever cut a piece of wood ...
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    Featured Artist - Ron Befferman 

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    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 05-29-2012 10:14 AM
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    I am pleased to introduce our first Featured Artist, Ron Befferman.

    Ron lives in New Jersey and retired 17 years ago after a long career with the Federal Aviation Administration. His love of working with wood began in 1992 by making 19th century furniture reproductions. These projects required lots of dovetails and intricate joinery, but also a lot of turned finials - a skill he had not yet acquired. Ron took a class at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and as his skills developed, so did his passion for woodturning.
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    NEW! Southest View in Lamination PRO v3 - Video Tutorial 

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    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 05-29-2012 02:29 PM  Number of Views: 2425 
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    The new Southwest View in Lamination PRO lets you transform a 1st or multi-generation board into a Southwest, or Native Indian-style design with a simple mouse click. Once you've done that, additional options will let you change the pattern into an unlimited number of design opportunities.
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    NEW! Woodturner PRO v3 Features: Repeat Paint and Auto Adjust Diameters 

    by
    Lloyd Johnson
    Published on 05-29-2012 04:05 PM
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    Designing a complex vessel with 35 rows of 36 segments (1,260 segments) has always been time consuming.

    In this video tutorial I'll show two new features of Woodturner PRO that will change all that. We'll start in 3D Design PRO and transfer a sample vessel wall profile to Woodturner PRO. We'll then use the Golden Ratio overlay to position the center of the feature ring and paint ...
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