- Michael Hosaluk from Saskatoon started his demo with 30-minute slide show of his work.
- Teapot series – hey, these things sell!
- See his website for more
- How do you make this out of this?
- Notice the internal carving
- His version of offset turning
- His Ukrainian DNA influences his art
- Amazing detail – wood burning
- Making old fashioned top demonstrating tool technique
- Finished top
- Multi-axis project
- Turning air
- Micheael likes and sells the Thompson tools
- Multi-axis final form
- Showing how he slices the spatula stock – cannot bend because won’t stay bent if gets wet
- Drives with toothless cup for safety and slot holds blade on live center
- Handle shaped with beads
- Shaping blade on variable speed MDF sanding disk
- Baseball project – stitches are wood burned
- Michael cut this ball strictly by eye – and it was truly round!
- Starting project with roughed out Madrone blank
- Hollowing with small scraper on side grain in jam chuck
- Handle steamed in microwave wrappped in wet towel then clamped in form to dry
- Explaining how he forms and bends legs on vessel
- Beading with the beading tool (grain is axial)
- Hollowing with the hook tool on end grain
- Showing hook tools with different grinds
- Hollowing on bottom for legs – Jam chuck not real secure
- Laying out the three legs
- Roughing out the legs with saw
- Power carver
- Hand chisel
- Unfinished feet
- Sanding with “metal sandpaper”
- The art of making fine shavings with gouge or shear scraper on Madrone bowl
- Shear scraping on back side
- Down to a sixteenth inch or so using light to gauge thickness
- Use light on inside to thin base
- Madrone very thin bowl
- Madrone bowl bottom
- Maple blank for horn project – check out the sexy gouge handle
- Drilling the pilot hole
- Hollowing each half with hook tool
- Making a tenon to fit the halves together
- Shaping the exterior while joined
- Leave center joint alone while tapering the ends
- Straight cut wedge sections on band saw
- True up sections’ surface flat on sanding disk
- Al G. prepping glue joints with 50/50 thinned wood glue and surfaces allowed to dry
- Now applying fresh coat of unthinned wood glue for a rub joint
- Rub joint firms up in about one minute – if carving the insides, carve as you go in sections
- It works!
- Final glue up
- This one also sliced to make oval
- Hones – diamond card and round for inside hook and gouge
- Small rotary cutters