February 2017 – Michael Hosaluk – Channel Islands Woodturners

: 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