Michael Allison is a wood-turner, a guy who hauls a block of wood onto a lathe and then, through the steady application of muscle, patience and will, turns it into something artful — a bowl, … ...

Typically, when creating a wooden bowl a crafts person would do so on a lathe. A chunk of wood would be bolted to the head stock and the bottom of the bowl turned to an appropriate shape. Then the ...

Then he uses a lathe to shave it down into a “rough bowl,” which dries out for months before the final turning. The whole process creates more wood shavings than you can image.

Then, in Build It, he shows how to turn a segmented bowl, which is comprised of multiple pieces of wood glued together and turned, creating a unique visual effect.

If you’d custom-order a wood-turned bowl made from scratch by craftsman Robert Nelson, it likely would take nine months before he’d start working on it. It has nothing to do with Nelson’s ...

Ashburnham artist Mike Mittelman has been turning wooden bowls in his garage throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I like taking a piece of wood, finding what's in it, and either making something that's beautiful or something that's useful," says Press. Press first got into the craft of woodturning when he was a ...

In this woodturning session, we work with a walnut blank that doesn’t play by the rules. Knots, grain shifts, and a few surprises make this a bowl with serious character. It’s all about embracing ...

He’s fighting food insecurity with wood and creativity Michael Mittelman, a Brookline artist, crafts hand-turned wooden bowls, which he gives to people who make contributions to food banks and ...