Wood Turning Red Cedar - Video
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- Wood Turning Red Cedar - Video
This Eastern Red Cedar bowl was a NIGHTMARE! From the holes, to the part where it tries to fly. Well, you'll see. Woodturning bowls can be all about problem-solving and perseverance. This is a great example.
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Your last comments are right on. That’s where I am. That’s what I like about working with wood in general. Problem solving. When something doesn’t go as you expected you need to roll with the punches and make adjustments and keep going.
My new cereal bowl. Thanks. Turned out nice.
Great Robert! Please subscribe, and Happy Turning!
Absolutely Beautiful. I love how you work and also let your viewers know what you are doing. You've gained a viewer.
Thank you so much Jody! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Glad you stayed with it . I've had several I had to go to plan two.
Thanks, Phil. It's nice when they cooperate, but plan two is always in the back pocket as well. ;) All the best to you and Happy Turning!
I like it the turquoise goes good with the color of the wood.
Beautiful, simply beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers! Happy Turning!
Ken, you're videos are always filled with great tips and not overdone, really appreciated.
Glad you like them! Thanks, Scott! Happy Turning!
Cedar! I had a customer come in my work Friday and offer to bring me some cedar to turn. I work at city electric supply and we're raising money for the Make a Wish foundation so I have been giving all bowls, boxes, and trinkets as donations. We'll sell my peices at work and donate the money. I guess it going pretty good. WLOS western NC News Channel came down and interviewed me about it. The local news paper picked up the story. I got the idea from your Beads of Hope video. Now locals come in and give me nice wood! It's great!
Sounds like a brilliant program! Well done! And the dropped-off timber is a win-win as well. Keep up the great work. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Kent, you are a stud!! 👍👍👍👏👏👏👌👌👌
Thanks, Roy! LOL All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Turned out beautiful, I thought it would be fire wood at one time, but you persevered and it was worth it what a great looking bowl. And once again thank you for sharing your skills and knowledge we do appreciate it 👍🪵🌲😃
Thank you very much Brette! Glad you enjoyed this one. Happy Turning!
Such a transformation from questionable start to beauty! Respect your talent and as an example to learn by.
Thank you Charles! Cheers! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Wow! Super nice. I have some big chunks of Cedar and I'm going to do a little turning again!
Sounds great! Enjoy and Happy Turning!
Hi Kent, I've recently retired from the British police on ill health grounds after 40 years of service. A friend of mine introduced me to turning wood and suggested your videos were informative. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and expertise, this hobby has given me a whole new world to live in and I can happily lose myself in my workshop for hours at a time even though my illnesses limit my work time considerably. I was intending to take lessons but am a little disadvantaged by the nature of my condition and childish embarrassment at displaying weakness. I am learning so much from your freely given demonstrations and the discipline (or lack of) of woodturning has given me a whole nother (I'm pretty that's how you say it in American) lease on life. Thanks again. I have a bowl for y'all to throw up in!
Thank you for writing and sharing, Nicholas! I'm thrilled you've discovered the joy of turning wood bowls. Please remember; persistent, patient practice will yield the bowls you are imagining right now! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Wow, that was a battle, but what a reward for your effort
Thank you, Roger! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
This is a beautiful bowl. I enjoy all your videos. You really know how to explain and teach. I am just starting turning and I had a very nasty catch and thanks to you I gain more confidence and did not get discouraged. Thank you for your videos and your tutorials. Kind regards. Valdie
It’s a joy! You never know what’s there!
Yes indeed Chris. Happy Turning!
A lot of work and nightmares to deal with but in the end it turned out beautiful. 👌👏👏👏
Thank you, Lewis Happy Turning!
Loved this video I always loved cedar smell color etc. Beautiful job
Thank you, Anthony! Happy Turning!
im just starting watch vids for educational reasons...thanks for sharing knowledge.
Glad to help Bobbi! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Just went through an exactly the same experience with western red cedar. Wound up making a mortise and bowl is still under construction. Pull out is really tough with this piece of very dry cedar, even with very sharp gouges and very light cuts. Thank you for very helpful teaching videos
My pleasure James. Best of luck to you. Happy Turning!
I've watched a lot of bids on turning. Some awesome, crazy stuff too sometimes. I learned far more practical practices and techniques from your bid, so I did the unthinkable and subscribed.
Unthinkable, Bradley! Thank you! ;) All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Outstanding!! Best wood turning channel on the net! I have been binge watching ever since I found your channel. Love it. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you, Conrad and welcome!!! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Friends with a sawmill gave me some cedar planks recently. I'll cut them square, glue em up, bandsaw to round and try a bowl or two. One for them as a surprise and one for my collection.
Thanks for the tips on cedar.
Wow! That's an astounding result!
Thank you, Dan! Happy Turning!
That is just off the chart!!!!! Beautiful outcome!!
Thank you, Gayle! Cheers! Happy Turning!
Your perseverance paid off. Beautiful bowl.
Thanks, Bonnie! Happy Turning!
What a stunning bowl. That Cedar is gorgeous. When it flew off I thought that was going to be the end. Then with all those holes I was so afraid it was going to catch. You, Sir did an amazing job in getting it finished. True talent. Thank you so much. Love it. Much respect from Northeastern Arizona ❤😊❤🇺🇸
Thank you kindly Joalla! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
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You saved this bowl beautifully!!!! Gorgeous result!!!
Thank you, Annmarie! Happy Turning!
There is one thing, that I learned a long time ago: Life ist like woodturning - problems are ther to be solved!
Thank you very much for this video. I am just beginning with woodturning and your videos help me much to come over the failures and starting again with a projekt.
Well said! Enjoy the process of woodturning. Remember; persistent, patient practice will yield the bowls you imagine creating! Happy Turning!
Nice recovery! Great end result!
Thanks, Sean! It was touch and go for awhile. ;) Happy Turning!
Wow, every time I watch your videos I learn something else thank you very much. Awesome bowl by the by.
Awesome! Thank you! Happy Turning!
Kent, thanks for this video. I learned a great deal. While I've been a wood turner for years, the details in your videos are always helpful in improving or adding to my bag of technique tricks.
Glad to help, Bill! Happy Turning!
I think the bowl turned out very nice! I had a similar experience with a bowl flying off my lathe. It shot out my garage and rolled into my yard about 30 feet away! Talk about being surprised! You should get a Lazy Susan mechanism with a piece of plywood on it so you wouldn't need to touch your bowl as you put the finish on. Works really well. Thank you for your videos. They have helped make me a better turner.
Congratulations on your find. . Beautiful piece.
Thank you kindly Tex. Happy Turning!
Beautiful bowl after all of your trials and tribulations!! Great work!!
Thank you very much, Claude! Cheers! Happy Turning!
I love your good and bad comments, Thanks.
Thank you too John! Happy Turning!
Wow, that was a challenge, very good end result. 😊
Thank you! Cheers! Happy Turning!
You are a true artist and a skilled craftsman! Thank you, Don
Thank you kindly, Don! Happy Turning!
Thank you Kent for the tip at 22:00 -23:00 about sneaking up on the side. Very helpful.
Glad that connected for you, Kalvin. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Astounding! I couldn't believe you planned to turn the hole filled half-log you showed us at the start of the video. I throw out a huge amount of wood because of what I think are fatal flaws. You have given me new courage; also, good to see that your bowl came flying off, same as us normal mortals. Love your videos! Keep them coming!
Thanks Robert. It does take more work but the results can be beautiful. Happy Turning!
Kent your demeanor is magnificent. I am a new turner and I have learned so much from you. This bowl is exactly the style I would like to make. Thank you thank you for you knowledge.
You are very welcome Danielle. I'm so glad to help. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
This bowl was a labor of love. Awesome bowl
Thank you. Yes indeed. Happy Turning!
Thanks so much for the another great project and video!
I had given up on bowl turning a while back , but with your instructions and tips, I have solved some of my problems that caused me to stop. Keep the vids coming and again, a sincere thanks for reigniting my woodturning interest!
Ken
Welcome back, Ken! Please remember; persistent, patient practice will yield the bowls you are imagining right now! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Good to know that even experienced turners somtimes face the same issues I have. Thanks for sharing, Kent!
Yup, it happens. Happy Turning!
Great video Kent totally like your instructions been a woodturner for 25 years plus and learn something new from you all the time thumbs up to you
Thank you, Gary! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Those rot holes are typical for Eastern Red Cedar (Juniper). It is beautiful wood and smells great and like you said, you just never know what you're going to find inside a log!
Yes indeed. Thanks and Happy Turning!
I really love how that project turned out, especially with all of the challenges you faced. Bravo sir! As a beginner, I am constantly inspired by videos like yours. I'm still in the spindle turning stage of my turning experience, learning to master the dreaded skew chisel, but boxes and bowls will be my passion I think. Thanks so much for all you do!
Thank you kindly, Greg! Glad to help. Happy Turning!
Hahaha! Yes, I have that syndrome too!
Hi Kent, another honest video showing mistakes which even experienced woodturnes make. Me too! You fixed it and the result is great. Thank you for sharing with us.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks and Happy Turning!
You are a good teacher. Thanks for all you do.
My pleasure, Jeff. Happy Turning!
Those holes are quite unusual since cedar is very resistant to rot and bugs. That log is a very rare find! An amazing job as always 👍👌
I encounter those dead spots regularly with eastern red cedar. It's very typical--and my one singular complaint about the wood. Otherwise it is beautiful and really takes a nice finish too.
Beautiful bowl!!
Thank you very much!
I turn eastern cedar all the time and I love it. But we don't have the issues with rot. But you did a nice job like always Kent. Love your videos
Thanks for sharing Michael. Enjoy that cedar! Happy Turning!
Wow, it turned out beautiful. The contrast of color is amazing.
Thank you, Jean! Happy Turning!
loved it yes i learned alot im wating on my lathe to arrive cant wait. but thanks to people like u who are teaching us thanks aginnn
Great to hear! Thank you kindly! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
All your hard work was definitely worth it...the bowl is really gorgeous!
Thank you so much, Carol! Happy Turning!
There are a lot of wood turner that refuse to use resin to fix holes when in actual fact it makes the bowl look great like in this case great job
Thanks, glad you like this! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Great save, Kent. Like the shape. Thanks for all the great videos.
Thanks for watching, Garth. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Commenting on year-old videos ... that's my thing I suppose, regardless: I recently came into an abundance of the deepest, darkest, red cedar I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing Jeff! Happy Turning!
Beautiful work.
Thank you, Crystal!
Beautiful bowl and I learned using 5 minute to fill whole. Also I use the crack filling method you show in your videos all the time, thank you. I love using eastern cedar for my vases, the color and grain pattern from the branches.
Thank you for writing and sharing! Michael! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Just found your videos. Enjoy them very much. You explain so good how to do them. I am a new bowl turner and have learned a lot from you. Thanks for explaining it in layman's terms. Very good teacher.
Thank you for writing and sharing, Randy! I'm glad to be of service. Happy Turning!
Kent, thank you for sharing the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of turning Eastern Red Cedar (Juniper). I have been blessed (or cursed) with a log pile of this wood and have learned to work with it rather than against it. You were delt a "Bad Hand" with your blank, I have had only a few blanks with these issues and...well set them off to the side for a rainy day. Your videos continue to be informative and are always enjoyable and I look forward to your next.
Dave, Thank you for writing and sharing! I guess it was rainy day time here. LOL All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Beautiful bowl.
Thank you! Cheers Jack!
As a novice wood worker, I'm finding my finished work is so rewarding and each piece is unique. I was curious about the wood lathe and found your videos. I love the red cedar bowl and the epoxy tricks are very helpful. Great work. You're a master at it. Hats off to you.
Thank you, Shannon for your kind words! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Wow that turned out stunning! Cedar is my favorite wood next to black walnut. Thanks for sharing! Take care and GOD BLESS 🙏!
Thanks, Stephen. Yes, it is beautiful. Happy Turning!
It's five thirty in the am, couldn't sleep and I was perusing videos to watch when I landed on yours. I thought it was timely since I am finishing up some bowls of an Eastern Red Maple tree, I think its a good honest learning video. Just a few comments however: 1) If you would have left the wood under your tailstock for support, maybe 1"-1 1/2" and leave that column until you have completed gutting out the bowl you wouldn't lose the needed support and less chance of a "flying bowl" I remove the column easily at the end with a pointed carbide or similar tool after the support is no longer needed. 2) If you use something like Milliput resin in the holes there would be no running issues, although there is a 4 hour set time. It's a two part mix, looks like clay, sets up hard and has a good working time to smooth it out with a finger wet with water. But as I said at the beginning I think the video is a good teaching tool, well explained and visualized.
Thank you, Bob for the suggestions and the input. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Love your video's man so helpful 👍
Thank you, Isaac! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Beautiful bowl love the turquoise it just looks great with the red color of the wood, nice job Kent!
Thank you kindly, Maria. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
HI kent beautiful wood and very nicely turned. weldone.
Thank you and Happy Turning!
A big very beautiful bowl you've turned!!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you kindly! Happy Turning!
Love the description throughout. I have come across the same issue with cedar. Bugs eat the white and never touch the heart part of the wood. I love this wood for turning lamp bodies/ small bowls. I tend to set this wood to turn with the grain horizontal with my lathe tool rest. The holes are also a good base for inlay material. A smokey colored clear epoxy looks great with cedar too! Great Job!
Excellent ideas, thanks for sharing! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Beautiful bowl! I really enjoy your videos. I’m just getting back into wood turning after 45 years!! I’ve watched almost all of your videos. Thanks for great information and advice! Keep the great work coming!!!
That is awesome Steve! Enjoy the whole process. Happy Turning!
Excellent work, well worth it 👌
Thank you, Gerry!
Beautiful work
Thank you! Cheers! Happy Turning!
Looks great
Love it! You always do a great job of educating while still fun to watch.
Thank you! Cheers! Happy Turning!
I do love these bigger projects. You hit a homer on this one for sure. It made for a fantastic video too. A really great bowl and fantastic project.
Thank you kindly! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Thanks for sharing how you resolved the tenon problem. The super glue trick is pretty ingenious.
Thank you, Jung! Yes, the glue helps prevent that moment when all the fiber decide to give up together. ;) All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Amazing piece!
Thank you, Greg!
Awesome job! It turned out beautiful
Thank you, Louis! Happy Turning!
Perseverance is the name of pretty near all the bowls I've turned. Foul something up, figure out how to correct it. Start out with one shape in mind, create something entirely different, usually with no clue where I went wrong. Latest was what ended up being a 14" spalted Maple, where the original turning was 15 years ago.
Despite your warnings, I was sloppy with the jamb chuck I made -- it was too small (made of Eastern red cedar, BTW), didn't center properly -- so I found myself with a bowl that was elliptical, inside and out. Outside wasn't impossible to correct, but it WAS extremely challenging. Inside nearly drove me nuts. I kept working, kept working, "OMG, am I gonna have any wall at ALL, or will I just all-of-a- sudden cut through, sever the upper from lower wall curve?".
Pressure here, because it was promised to my daughter, who'd already seen it in its ovoid shape, would've been o.k. with that.
I couldn't leave it that way. I just couldn't! I chose to take the risk of destroying the bowl, which was quite possible, maybe even likely.
In the end, she turned out beautifully-- no, not perfectly round, but with an evenly varying wall thickness that made it unique.😊 Sanded to 300 grit, then used a Beal System buff and polish, finished with Danish Oil.
I remember hollering "I HATE sanding!" After about the second hour. Got a lot of encouragement from the folks in our Maker Space, especially from one particular turner with a years of experience.
The second turning, counting all steps, took 20 hours -- probably 4x as it would have, had I simply built that twice -turning jamb chuck you showed us, centered the bowl correctly to begin with.
Yeah, I'LL give you perseverance!
Well done! Yes, all the good things in life are usually at the end of a trying road or two. Keep up the good work. It gets easier! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
well done Kent, way to hang in there, you have more patience than I do, thanks for the show.
Thanks, Mark 👍 My pleasure. Happy Turning!
Very much enjoyed the entire process of your turning the eastern red cedar into a beautiful bowl. I especially like that you talk about what you are doing and why and you tell us what specific tool you are using at various stages. Rubbing wood glue into cracks with dust was great tip. This bowl turning was more problematic than other bowls I’ve watched you turn and so it was made more interesting because of the problem solving skills you gave to the project. Thanks Kent for continuing to provide, via your CZcams channel, a first class experience/education in how to turn wood bowls. Terry Allen
Thank you kindly Terry! I'm so glad to hear your appreciation! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
A lot of work, but well worth it! I've been turning Redwood lately, and encountering some of the same challenges and benefits. Thanks for posting this video, challenges and all. The best learning comes from overcoming challenges - not from the easy stuff, IMO.
Thanks David. Yes, we grow from overcoming adversity. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
You are very inspirational. I am very new at wood turning and I find your videos educational. Thanks. Arvind
Thank you kindly, Arvind. Enjoy the process! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
GREAT VIDEOS!!!!! THANK YOU !
Thanks Bob! Happy Turning!
I turned on the volume when the countdown started and the play by play commentary and the slow mo relay got my like and sub! Excited to see how you reach the end result.
Thanks for posting!
Thank you kindly and welcome! Happy Turning!
I applaud your perceverience Kent. After putting it back on the chuck and discovering the holes and valleys more I would have enjoyed the smell of the cedar as it burnt rather than when it turned. The final product is beautiful! Thanks for sharing and another lesson.
Take care, Dave
LOL, thanks. Well, there might be some other pieces that become flame-enhanced fragrant. Happy Turning!
That was some difficult turning. Great perseverance, well done.
Thanks, Jack! Much appreciated. Happy Turning!
I had the same thing happen with a redwood blank earlier this week. Definitely a nightmare for sure, glad you salvaged it!
Hang in there. Don't let it win. ;) All the best to you and Happy Turning!
I know the feeling, Kent. Once I start on a turning, I rarely give up. Sometimes, I put it away and come back another day. That sapwood is very weak so not the best place to hold a bowl. I hear so many turners favor tenons over recesses but I've had much better success with recesses. I made a custom offset tool so I'm sure to get the correct angle of the recess and it works great even with the tailstock in place. Typically, it's hard to get at and I think that's why many people don't make a recess. Glad to see you stay with it and not get too frustrated. Keep the videos coming.
I recently switched to doing recesses on my last 4 bowls and I completely agree. I've had varying success with tenons, from perfectly fine, to a little shifting forcing me to stop and re-seat, or just completely snapping off. Each recess bowl I've done has been solid. Easy to reference when taking on and off the lathe and you can leave it in place once you've finished. Highly recommend people give it a whack. I was always a little intimidated of the wooodworm screw but it's helped me a lot since I gave it a shot.
Sounds great. Thank you for writing and sharing, Greg! Happy Turning!
@@jakus55 Good to hear. I still use tenons depending on the wood and style of bowl but surely feel that the recess is stronger if made correctly. Woods like pine not so good and definitely not end grain bowls. I'll see if I can get you the info on the tool I made for the recesses.
@@jakus55 Not sure if the link will get blocked but if it does, go to MikePeaceWoodturning and search his page for making a recess tool. czcams.com/video/7ZKRlMNC5mc/video.html
Looks so cool! Colours are amazing!
Thank you, Dan! Happy Turning!
Early on, I turned a very nice (if I say so myself) Eastern Red Cedar bowl. The thing I remember about it was the smell. It was so cedar-y that it gave me a headache. I actually had to wear my VOC filters. I don't know if I got a 'mutant' blank or I'm just sensitive to it. Other turners tell me they didn't didn't find Eastern Red Cedar particularly objectionable. Beautiful wood, in any case! Cheers!
Michael, interesting. I have found some wood odor variations as well. My gut says that perhaps the tree stores more oils/energy (aka odor) at various times of the year more than others. And remember, almost all tree odors, colors, etc. are the tree's way of defending itself. That is why some people have reactions. Happy Turning! Kent
Great job Kent. I like your commentary as you go. Your comment about considering chucking it in due to the holes about halfway through made me laugh. I’m learning at the moment, I have a 91 year old teacher! He says there’s no such thing as a c*ck up, just an opportunity for another dimension. You did that well with the resin, really nice bowl :)
Thanks 👍 Nick! Well, that's one philosophy. Richard Raffin says "life's too short to turn rubbish!" ;) All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Thanks Kent, after three years of turning, I had my first tenon break and the bowl went flying. ( small catch) Very dry black walnut. I glued it back on and it now it sits on the lathe waiting for me. Thanks for teaching perseverance. Out to the shop I go :)
Great, Dane! Yes, stick with it and don't let the blank win. LOL All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Beautiful, and great save!👍🏻
Thank you, James! All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Great recovery! Loved the epoxy fills in the holes, too. I have a chunk of Eastern Red Cedar left behind by the prior owner of our home, I've been putting off turning it because of the unusual structure for the embedded branches, but yours came out so beautiful that I want to see what's inside this one.
Thanks, Tom. Yes, give it a try. Beautiful species. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
That is one beautiful Bowl! I cannot turn anything that size. I learn so much from your videos
Thank you very much! You can do it! Might need a larger lathe, but you can do it. All the best to you and Happy Turning!
Beautiful, the size, the shape, the COLORS. Congratulations on an awesome piece!
Thank you! Happy Turning!
Happy new year! Gorgeous vase, one of your best yet. Love the translucent Designer Epoxy!