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February 2017 – Michael Hosaluk

ByRon Lindsay February 28, 2017October 11, 2024

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

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January 2017 – Kevin Wallace

March 2017 – Tips and Tricks

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