Turning

A shopmade router jig handles both turning and mortising

Utilizing green English oak sourced locally, Ash and Plumb produce pieces inspired by neolithic and medieval pottery and ancient bronzes from Chinese, Greek and Roman, English, and Etruscan sources. Their aim is to find something more elusive: “We try to tap into ones that feel deeply personal and human—that people will be instinctively drawn to whether they understand the history or not.”

This DIY jig is easy to both make and use

Matt Monaco makes a bubinga platter with an elegant bead.

Michelle delves into her love for wood carving and her relationship with the trees surrounding her Vermont home.

Marc Ricourt creates vessels out of beech and oak he harvests near his home in Burgundy, France. He begins each piece with chainsaw work before refining the shape at the lathe. He completes the piece with carving, sanding, and finishing.

Matt Monaco creats a bowl with a clean, classical simplicity of shape that he sees as wooden pottery.

Peter Follansbee gives us a fascinating glimpse into his turning process—as though it were 1684.

Darryl Jones shows how easy it is to turn a wooden sphere without a commercially available jig. He lays out the process using scrap wood to make simple shop-made cup centers used to mount, turn, and finish a wooden sphere.

Turn a sleek pepper grinder without visible hardware using Matt Monaco's design.