Its Christmas, what the hell! emgi woodworks 2023-12-26 | We had guests yesterday and we will have more guests tomorrow. Any shoptime get during xmas is today and its been a while. Lets hope my camera's are still working. If they are, I will rough out a bowl from Ash.
Sunday Live, what will it be this time? emgi woodworks 2023-08-21 | Actually I have no clue what I will make but I'm sure something will pop up!
Sunday Live. Making my first pen emgi woodworks 2023-07-30 | Thus far I've never made pens. Recently I got myself a pen mandrel and a few pen kits. By Sunday I will be ready to try this for the first time, directly before a live audience. To increase the chances of successl I have invited experienced penturner Huw Davies (woodenitbenice) to give me real-time advice. Next to Huw I will also have Jennifer (Craft & Creations) helping out as an earworm. Please join us, it will be great fun!
Live on Sunday, a project for the Bosslady emgi woodworks 2023-07-02 | Upper Management made a request and so I have a project. Join me to see what it will be.
Whitsunday Live from the workshop emgi woodworks 2023-05-29 | Still preparing but if all goes well, I have an interesting project for you. Feel free to join!
Ascension Day MegaLive AM session emgi woodworks 2023-05-18 | This will be a live that lasts for as long as I'm in the shop. AM section will be until lunch and I will follow up with an afternoon part as well. I will add guest earworms upon request. Feel free to join in!
Ascension Day MegaLive PM session emgi woodworks 2023-05-18 | Second part of Ascension day in the workshop. Send me an email if you like to join in as guest earworm.
Tuesday Live. Changed the lighting emgi woodworks 2023-05-17 | Seems like an improvement, the shadows over the work are less dark now.Not quite there yet but better than it was. Let me know what you think!
Mothers Day Live. Looking at inlays emgi woodworks 2023-05-15 | Yes, it is Mothers Sunday but she is in her Greenhouse and I can be in the shop.Today I will show you how things are going with the inlays that I am experimenting with.
Live on Friday. OneWay time! emgi woodworks 2023-04-22 | I have two blanks of willow that I want to core with my OneWay rig. You are welcome to see me do the last preparations and core them!
Thursday Live. Why not? emgi woodworks 2023-04-14 | First attempt at making a lid for one of the Jewelry Boxes.
Easter Sunday Live. Turning a tool emgi woodworks 2023-04-10 | For turning wooden beads I need a live center which doesn't dull my tools; a wooden one!I already made a dead center for the drive end and now I went through my metal scrap in search of a ball bearing. Will it work?
Second Live today. Am I on to something? emgi woodworks 2023-04-08 | If all goes well, this will be an inlay for a mason jar lid.
Another Live. Finally! emgi woodworks 2023-04-08 | This time I will make a few spinning tops for an upcoming Market event. Inspired by Jay from WoodenThingsAU, thnx Jay!
Sunday Live. emgi woodworks 2023-02-20 | Working on one or two projects that I have been postponing and showing a bit of what is going on in the shop.
Saturday PopUp Live. Just because I feel like it. emgi woodworks 2022-12-18 | Making a thin walled Pear shallow bowl or dish is the objective of this session.Will it it work out?
A Sunday afternoon in the workshop emgi woodworks 2022-11-21 | Probably I will be turning some Ash but I might still change my mind.
Woodturning an Oak Bowl with Radar the woodturner emgi woodworks 2022-11-14 | Got an order for a second oak bowl.
Tuesday Live. Finishing Sundays project emgi woodworks 2022-09-28 | For those who have the timee to watch, here's me finishing up the Tealight I made last Sunday.The plan for this piece is shown and discussed extensively at the end of the video.
Sunday Live. Turning an Egg-shaped Tealight Holder from Yew. emgi woodworks 2022-09-26 | An Egg-shaped Tealight Holder from Yew. The Yew was given to me by fellow YouTuber HansB from HB woodturning. Thnx Hans!
Another Sunday Live. Turning Alder emgi woodworks 2022-09-19 | Any clues what this is going to be? Just watch!
Pop-Up Live Working on another Oak Bowl emgi woodworks 2022-08-28 | Another Bowl made from German Oak
Woodturning Jewelry - Making a set of Eardrops emgi woodworks 2022-07-07 | Here is a really nice project to use your small scraps of hardwood. An eardrop like this is 10mm wide and just over 30mm long; that is really small. I'm using my collect chuck to hold the workpiece but any chuck with smaller jaws (pen jaws) will probably do the trick as well. These are Meranti with gold colored beads; next is a set in Padauk with silver beads. All the hardware (ear hooks, connecting rings and beads) comes from China. Because I'm planning to do more in this area, I ordered a lot of this stuff at once. That speeds up delivery and I'm good to go for the next few years or maybe even longer. Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
A Jewelry Box part 3 - MakingThe Lid emgi woodworks 2022-06-30 | Here is the last part of my mini series on the Jewelry Box I made for my granddaughter's birthday. Enjoy the video!
Woodturning a Leylandii Vase emgi woodworks 2022-06-23 | Because we already have plenty of bowls, I will be making other things this year, Vases for example. In my woodpile I found a nice and dry piece of Leylandii which seemed perfect for what I had in mind. Actually I'm quite happy with the result. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1077Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
A Jewelry Box part 2 - Finishing the box emgi woodworks 2022-06-16 | This video is the third in a mini series. For those of you who have seen the video where I make a Jewelry Box for my granddaughter, the video stops short of making the last piece. Simply because by the time I made that video I was still waiting for a shipment from China which contained the insert which was supposed to go on there. Meanwhile everything has been delivered and I was eager to continue the work in order to be ready before her birthday. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/10xxCamera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning a Change Bowl from Ash emgi woodworks 2022-06-09 | After approximately half a year I have tried my luck making a Change Bowl from the Ash which I got in september of 2021. This blank came from a slab which we cut during Chainsaw Saturday and it has spent the winter on the patio, outside but protected from most of the rain. The wood could be a little bit dryer still but seemed dry enough for turning finished pieces. Cutting trees into slabs of about three inches is a good way to create usable wood for turning You can cut it either square stock for handles and such or make blanks of about seven to eight inch square which can be cut to size on the bandsaw. I also used the opportunity to experiment again with my decoration tool, the proper use of which requires somewhat of a learning curve. Quite happy with the final result though. Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Whitsun PopUp Live - Doing what I do. emgi woodworks 2022-06-06 | In the shop on a sunday afternoon, making another earring stand.
Woodturning - An order for three Ashtrays! emgi woodworks 2022-06-02 | To other woodturners I would like to say: this is definitely a sellable item, in January I got a new order for three ashtrays and probably a few more will be coming this year. This makes them my best selling item to date. Making one is quite a bit of work but you can charge a decent amount because they are not for sale anywhere else and many people like the robust natural look of these. Let me state this clearly once more: I do not smoke myself but as a woodturner I do like to make Ashtrays. What my customers like most is my initial design of a sliced treetrunk with the bark still on and a snuff plate in the middle. I'm fortunate to have a mill for cutting the slots but it can also be done with just a Dremel. Then I have my metal lathe to finish the casted aluminium snuff plates. I'm working on improving the casting process so that I can make them faster. When I get there these may go on sale as well. Post a comment if you are interested. Over time I made a few adjustments to the design, the most important one is to drill out as much of the pith as possible in order to minimize cracks. Still I recommend all customers to keep their ashtray in a cool environment and apply a little moisture to it every now and then. Let me know what you think! Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio LibraryThis is not a safety video. If you get injured or killed trying to do what I do, I will not be liable. If you do not know how to operate a machine such as this safely, it is not my responsibility to teach you.
Woodturning a Rowan Vase emgi woodworks 2022-05-26 | The year 2022 is the year in which I will be making fewer bowls and more boxes and of course Vases. The Rowan I have is very nice wood for turning, a bit brittle maybe but otherwise it cuts really smooth. The project came out really good. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1081Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Pop-up Live because its Sunday emgi woodworks 2022-05-23 | A lovely day again here in the Netherlands but I still have a lot of turning to do for the upcoming Craft Fair. A Change Bowl perhaps? I'm using some Poplar which I brought from Germany, lets see if it is any good!
Pop-up Live Preparing for a Craft Sale emgi woodworks 2022-05-22 | After long hesitation I have finally done it! Just sent in my submission to be on the local fair in June with my woodworking products. Apart from selling items I will also try to promote my hobby and maybe score some free wood. You never know what people may have in their backyard. From past experience I alrteady know that bowls are hard to sell, especally if you have only bowls it is going to be wasted time. People want to see something different.So I have planned a production run for making a few wooden Owls, very cute ones and I will have a couple of lidded pots on display and of course Gnomes. In this live I turned the first one that's intended to go on sale. It was an hour's work to make the body on the lathe, the time spent to prepare the blanks is not included and then I still need to make the nose and attach a beard. So one Gnome is easily one and a half to two hours of work and I do not think I can ask more than 10$ or 10Euro. Woodturners are doomed to stay poor!
Chestnut Collaboration NL 2022 emgi woodworks 2022-05-19 | As a spinoff from last year's Chainsaw Saturday we (Hans @HB woodturning, Frank @thetinyworkshop & myself) agreed to do a collaboration project with a piece of Chestnut. The idea was/is that we will all turn a bowl from the same tree and publish at the same time. The plan was to publish in April but due to various circumstances it has become May. The links to the other projects:Hans: youtu.be/aazEKeD5rAAFrank: youtube.com/watch?v=T5ZPbD5aJYgLet me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1083Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio LibraryThis is not a safety video. If you get injured or killed trying to do what I do, I will not be liable. If you do not know how to operate a machine such as this safely, it is not my responsibility to teach you.
Pop-up Live Turning more German Oak emgi woodworks 2022-05-16 | Gary (the Pappa 1947) commented on the video ( youtu.be/ynDlcs__mkY ) in which I turned a piece of Oak that it might be possible to finish a bowl in one visit by turning it thin. So I thought I'd give it a try and throw in another pop-up Livestream session. Enjoy!
Woodturning - Rough turning German Oak emgi woodworks 2022-05-12 | From my recent trip to Germany I brought back some Oak from a dead tree which was still standing upright after storm Eunice. That is, it is no longer standing now because I took it down. From the wood I will make a few bowls for friends over there who have recently helped me getting things done like digging a cabletrench. Even though the tree had been dead with no leaves at all for two or three years, the wood was still too wet to turn in one stage. I'm hoping the drying won't take too long so that I can still deliver the finished article this summer. This is the first one I did, maybe I will do another one in a live session.Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio LibraryThis is not a safety video. If you get injured or killed trying to do what I do, I will not be liable. If you do not know how to operate a machine such as this safely, it is not my responsibility to teach you.
Woodturning a Gnome Box emgi woodworks 2022-05-05 | Purely decorative pieces are not really my style, I'd rather make something that is functional. This project is a bit of a hybrid because it is also a decorative piece, nevertheless its primary function is to be a storage box for your toothpicks. Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning a Birch Hollow Form emgi woodworks 2022-04-28 | My first ever hollow form, made from a pretty punky crotchpiece of Birch, with really fantastic spalting. To stabilize the wood, I used Polycryl Wood Fortifier. That worked quite well as far as strengthening the wood is concerned but if there is one thing I learned from this project, it is that you should apply the Polycryl only after doing all the sanding & finishing. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1075Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning a Three Piece Vase - part 2 emgi woodworks 2022-04-21 | Since we really have plenty of bowls by now, the year 2022 will be featuring some other stuff, Vases for example. This one is a good example of what I would like to show you; a combination of standard woodturning while incorporating some segmented work. My tooling for making segments is still rather limited but on the other hand that means if I can do it, many others can do it also. While I'm at it, I'm trying to explain what I'm doing and why. That is part of why this has become a longer video and hence in two parts. This is the part in which the plan comes together and I was really pleased with the result. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1073Link to Part 1: youtu.be/lU71czIcj0QCamera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning a Three Piece Vase - part 1 emgi woodworks 2022-04-14 | Since we really have plenty of bowls by now, the year 2022 will be featuring other stuff, Vases for example. This one is a good example of what I would like to show you; a combination of standard woodturning while incorporating some segmented work. My tooling for making segments is still fairly limited but on the other hand that means if I can do it, many others can do it also. While I'm at it, I'm trying to explain what I'm doing and why. That is part of why this has become a two-part video about a Three Piece Vase. More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1073Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning a Bosslady Special emgi woodworks 2022-04-07 | Just a really simple project this week but if she needs it we turn it!Also showing a practical application of my collet chuck. Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
A Gnome for Valerie - part 2 emgi woodworks 2022-04-07 | A scheduled live to continue where I left off. In this part I will be making the hat and maybe even finish the project.
A Gnome for Valerie - part 1 emgi woodworks 2022-04-04 | A gnome for Valerie. The body, which you see me make here, is from a piece of mystery wood which has been in my shop forever. It came from the Recycling Center and its probably Willow. The nose is from a small piece of Merantii.
#SegmentMM in pictures emgi woodworks 2022-04-03 | Hello all,Here is the long awaited slideshow of all entries for our Segmented Month of March Challenge. We are humbled by the numkber of participations, it wasn't an easy ask but many turners stood up to it. Please also check out the playlist at the end of the video!
The draw for my 1k subscribers dual giveaway emgi woodworks 2022-04-02 | Time is up for entering the draw, all comments were carefully printed, sorted and then I picked two for each. The name drawn is the winner unless he/she doesn't respond within the given time of one week. That's short, I know but my schedule makes it mandatory to handle this within the coming week. Please write me a message via the email on my channel page (business inquiries) and we'll get it underway. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who entered and of course also to those subscribers who didn't. Without my subscribers all of this would not have been possible. Thank you all!
Woodturning a Maple Lidded Pot emgi woodworks 2022-03-31 | Another lidded pot, made out of a bone dry piece of Maple. It had one big crack which gave me quite a bit of trouble but fortunately I managed to keep it in one piece. It also had a few bugholes which I filled with a mix of black paint and glitter.Still, Maple is a bit featureless and so it really needed to be decorated. Fortunately the Bosslady stepped in and helped me with that. I already know that I can rely on her and so this became a real co-production.Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1076Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
Woodturning my first Gnome emgi woodworks 2022-03-24 | From the moment I first saw them I wanted to make one myself. The biggest problem was getting the material to make the beard. Finding a nice piece of wood is not easy either but I managed to find a leftover piece of Walnut. This is all still from the tree I felled in 2019 and that wood is now becoming almost sacred (and rare). So it all worked out recently when I managed to buy a piece of fake fur (actually meant to be a rug) which was just right. When you live in NL, go to Action, it costed me 5 euro and cents but now I can make Gnomes for a year and still have enough beards. There probably will be a follow up and that will be a more functional one, with the body drilled out to form a box and the hat as the lid. The Bosslady liked this one a lot as a decoration piece. Let me know what you think!Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
First Live (test) emgi woodworks 2022-03-20 | Just grabbed a chunk of wood and turned it, with no particular objective in mind. Testing the functionality of the livestream setup was the objective and in that respect I learned a lot. A few viewers turned up and that was of course a bonus. The next show will be better!
A Jewelry Box part 1 - #SegmentMM emgi woodworks 2022-03-17 | This is a project which I have been planning for months now, considering all details and partly because I was afraid it would not be good enough. I guess I also needed some additional motivation to get started and that I took from this month's Challenge event. So here it comes (finally): A Jewelry Box for my teenage granddaughter. This video only shows how I made the box and even that is not yet finished completely because I'm waiting for parts. Let me know what you think!More details: emgi-woodworks.com/1080Camera: Nikon D3400Video Editor: OpenShot 2.5.1 (old, I know but the new version is unstable)Music: YouTube Audio Library
