Hello fellow woodworkers:
I'm an 82-year old avid amateur woodworker. I have done woodworking during most of my adult life. I shared my woodworking passion with my passion for downhill snow skiing until my body just wore out, not from skiing injuries. I only had only 1 bad ski injury that ultimately resulted in a full knee replacement. I skied many years after the knee replacement, but now I have hung up my skis and my only hobby, now, is woodworking.
I just purchased the package of software from Lloyd Johnson. I suspect Lloyd and I probably have things in common in our life careers. I worked as an engineer for about 40 years doing lots of different things, including research and development in both the oil and chemical industries; I wrote engineering computer software that solved non-linear partial differential equations; I wrote engineering computer software to design large industrial processing plants for several multi-national corporations.
I won't bore you with any more about my career.
Over the years I have made quite a few segmented bowls on a wood lathe, but not using the segmented ring design I now pursue. So I am a novice to the kind of segmented bowl work I suspect most of you are expert at. I hope I will learn things from you.
My wood working shop is in my 3-car garage that I share with our 2 cars. My shop tools include : an AXIOM Pro 5 AR6 CNC machine, a Grizzly 10" table saw, Jet cyclone dust collection equipment, a small Craftsman miter saw, and a Jet mini lathe. I plan to upgrade my Jet 10" throw mini-lathe with a 14" throw Harbor Freight midi lathe now that I will start doing segmented bowls. I used the Jet min-ilathe to make hundred of pens using every imaginable exotic hardwood I could buy.
For the last 10 years I have made hundreds of CNC projects, some from hardwood but lots made from simple MDF. It turns out that for 3D relief carving MDF is ideal, mostly because it has no wood grain. The purpose of a 3D relief carving is to create an art image, not to show off exotic wood grain.
As an introductory show and tell I have attached links to 2 slideshows showing recent work.
Wayne’s Wood Classics_2024 Completed.pdf
I'm am currently donating some of my past work for a silent auction in support of a 501(1)(c) church charity to provide help to a Catholic orphanage in Cameroon, Africa. Here is a link to items I donated to that cause.
St. Joseph Mission Auction_Oct_2024.pdf
I'm an 82-year old avid amateur woodworker. I have done woodworking during most of my adult life. I shared my woodworking passion with my passion for downhill snow skiing until my body just wore out, not from skiing injuries. I only had only 1 bad ski injury that ultimately resulted in a full knee replacement. I skied many years after the knee replacement, but now I have hung up my skis and my only hobby, now, is woodworking.
I just purchased the package of software from Lloyd Johnson. I suspect Lloyd and I probably have things in common in our life careers. I worked as an engineer for about 40 years doing lots of different things, including research and development in both the oil and chemical industries; I wrote engineering computer software that solved non-linear partial differential equations; I wrote engineering computer software to design large industrial processing plants for several multi-national corporations.
I won't bore you with any more about my career.
Over the years I have made quite a few segmented bowls on a wood lathe, but not using the segmented ring design I now pursue. So I am a novice to the kind of segmented bowl work I suspect most of you are expert at. I hope I will learn things from you.
My wood working shop is in my 3-car garage that I share with our 2 cars. My shop tools include : an AXIOM Pro 5 AR6 CNC machine, a Grizzly 10" table saw, Jet cyclone dust collection equipment, a small Craftsman miter saw, and a Jet mini lathe. I plan to upgrade my Jet 10" throw mini-lathe with a 14" throw Harbor Freight midi lathe now that I will start doing segmented bowls. I used the Jet min-ilathe to make hundred of pens using every imaginable exotic hardwood I could buy.
For the last 10 years I have made hundreds of CNC projects, some from hardwood but lots made from simple MDF. It turns out that for 3D relief carving MDF is ideal, mostly because it has no wood grain. The purpose of a 3D relief carving is to create an art image, not to show off exotic wood grain.
As an introductory show and tell I have attached links to 2 slideshows showing recent work.
Wayne’s Wood Classics_2024 Completed.pdf
I'm am currently donating some of my past work for a silent auction in support of a 501(1)(c) church charity to provide help to a Catholic orphanage in Cameroon, Africa. Here is a link to items I donated to that cause.
St. Joseph Mission Auction_Oct_2024.pdf
