Woodturning Weekend Conversations
46 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin us each week as our host, Perry Shaw, interviews famous and emerging wood artists. Find out what inspires them, how they got started, and how they see their craft evolving. All interviews are recorded live on the @Woodturners_Worldwide Instagram.
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Linda Ferber - Minnesota, USA
April 11, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBLinda learned of wood working through her father, a hobby woodworker who mainly did flat work and as he got better he devoted more time to do that. She became a his biggest customer for custom work. And then they started to work together. As time went on it got closer to time he could no longer safely handle the equipment. And like a lot of people he liked to buy tools and equipment he had bought a lathe, never used it but he had one, so during the auction I bought that lathe saying well I c...
Paul Russell - Utah, USA
April 11, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBJoin us as we talk with Paul Russell, one of the demonstrators at this year's AAW symposium in Chattanooga, TN. A transplant from San Diego to Utah, I’m a maker of 35 years with a passion for woodturning. My career with wood started at a young age and is always inspired by life’s simplicity, patterns and textures. While woodturning has been a longtime love, Paul Russell Designs is a more recent endeavor as my work has taken a more serious and artistic turn. I still appreciate my legacy hea...
Tom Silva - Massachusetts USA
March 08, 2022 15:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBThis is a recording from the Woodturners Worldwide Online Symposium. As a proud member of America’s favorite home improvement team since 1986, general contractor Tom Silva has provided years of expert advice to home enthusiasts across the country on This Old House and Ask This Old House. Renovating houses since he was a child, Tom’s first major project, working alongside his dad and brother, was installing a basement fallout shelter underneath their 1787 Colonial in Lexington, Massachuset...
Tom Silva - Massachusetts USA
March 08, 2022 15:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBThis is a recording from the Woodturners Worldwide Online Symposium. As a proud member of America’s favorite home improvement team since 1986, general contractor Tom Silva has provided years of expert advice to home enthusiasts across the country on This Old House and Ask This Old House. Renovating houses since he was a child, Tom’s first major project, working alongside his dad and brother, was installing a basement fallout shelter underneath their 1787 Colonial in Lexington, Massachuset...
Marie Anderson - Chicago, IL USA
November 22, 2021 02:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBWoodturner - artist, demonstrator, mentor, AAW WIT committee member since 2019. Wife, mother, daughter, aunt, enthusiastic friend and instigator! Support the show
Pat Carroll - Ireland
November 08, 2021 17:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBWorking as a builder/carpenter, woodturning was a craft I knew very little about before 2001. I had done some research and found a woodturner in my nearest town. Lucky for me, this woodturner was one of the finest turners in Ireland. Willie Stedmond, one of the founding members of the Irish Woodturners Guild, was giving night classes to which I attended a few. It is always my first advice to anyone interested in woodturning, get some lessons and join a club. I also did the latter and met som...
Rabea Gebler - Tokyo
November 04, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBWith a Bachelor degree in Product Design, I noticed I enjoyed being part of the making process of objects. After carving my first spoon from wood, the deep fascination for the material has never left me. I enjoy working with hand tools, leaving traces of axes and knives, adding my own narrative to the story told by the wood. - Rabea Gebler / instagram Support the show
Robert Rising - New York, USA
October 12, 2021 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBRobert Rising, known to his clients as “the black lumberjack,” is dedicated to saving fallen trees and creating furniture out of rescued wood. Rising also seeks to break stereotypes around lumberjacks, and he mentors younger people of color who want to be part of an industry that often boxes them out. Taken from a section of the Huffington Post Support the show
Anne Zogg - Illinois, USA
August 25, 2021 14:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/WoodturnersWorldwide)
Kirk DeHeer - Utah, USA
August 16, 2021 18:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBKirk has been a professional woodturner and instructor for many years, and he enjoys sharing his love of woodturning in the classroom with easy-to-follow instructions. He has been a popular demonstrator at many woodturning symposiums and at the Woodworking Shows throughout the country. He has also written articles on sharpening woodturning tools and has produced a DVD on sharpening. See his work and videos on Instagram @kirkdeheer. Support the show
Jonnie Crawford - Fife, Scotland
August 15, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBScottish amateur woodturner, tree and wood obsessive, novice spoon carver and proud dad of three youngsters. Support the show
Roberto Ferrer - Chicago, Illinois
August 07, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBRoberto Ferrer was born and raised in Mexico, where he was surrounded by art and crafts from the early age. While drawing and painting were part of his everyday life, the love for wood as a medium was born in his childhood when he used to visit his cousin's wood shop. But it was the colonial and baroque style architecture in his hometown that sparked the desire to one day be able to create sculptural work. His natural curiosity of knowing how things are built and how mechanisms work led hi...
Roberto Ferrer - Chicago, Illinois
August 07, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBRoberto Ferrer was born and raised in Mexico, where he was surrounded by art and crafts from the early age. While drawing and painting were part of his everyday life, the love for wood as a medium was born in his childhood when he used to visit his cousin's wood shop. But it was the colonial and baroque style architecture in his hometown that sparked the desire to one day be able to create sculptural work. His natural curiosity of knowing how things are built and how mechanisms work led hi...
Nicole MacDonald - Montreal, Quebec
August 07, 2021 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBNicole is an electron microscopist and multimedia artist living in Montreal, Quebec. Her childhood was spent investigating the forests, lakes, rivers, and the rugged beauty of the Atlantic Ocean on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. This early experience, combined with a career analyzing the micro world, resulted in a fascination of finding beauty in the small details. Through woodturning, Nicole explores natural forms and textures, inviting you to take a closer look. Photos of her w...
Yann Marot - Aups, France
August 07, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBAlready as a child, Yann Marot enjoyed the experience and atmosphere of his father’s workshop on the family farm. He was drawn to craftsmanship, but initially studied engineering. Degree in hand, he lasted about two weeks in that profession before setting off on a path towards his true passion: becoming a woodturning artisan. “The profession very nearly disappeared but has been redeveloping since the 1980s and 90s. Now there is a symbiosis between artistic turning and traditional woodturning...
Betty Scarpino - Indiana, USA
July 11, 2021 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBBetty Scarpino’s contemporary wood sculptures combine fluid motion with intricate detail. Her creative energy draws people to her, and numerous awards have come her way. Scarpino was born in 1949 in Wenatchee, Washington. Her career began in the seventies, when she began making furniture and producing purely functional pieces. She has a degree in industrial arts from the University of Missouri where she also studied woodcarving and wood sculpture. While these early years did not develop art...
Business Series - Scott Alexander
July 03, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBArtistry and making runs through my veins. Whether it be painting and sculpture, creating great food, or building a giant pizza oven in our backyard, I’ve always been fascinated by the process of making. I previously worked as an art director and commercial photographer. It was fulfilling, but I was always aching for something else, something more physical. I often reflected on a furniture making class I had enjoyed in art school and decided to start building furniture in my garage. I enjoy...
Raleigh Lockhart - Colorado, USA
June 27, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBRaleigh Lockhart traces his interests for Woodworking to the Black Hills of South Dakota where as a young man he discovered his life-long passion. Over the past 38 years Raleigh’s full-time job has relocated his family from Denver, Colorado to Seattle Washington, then off to Salt Lake City, Utah and has made it back home to Colorado. In the early 1990’s Raleigh took a Woodturning Class while living in Seattle … at the Woodturners Shop of Bonnie Klein. Richard Raffan was the featured Instruct...
Michael Earley - North Carolina, USA
June 27, 2021 03:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBAs a lifelong artist, I'm always looking for the next opportunity to translate my vision and experiences into artistic expressions. My approach and use of different materials are constantly evolving as I hone my personal style. The use of imported and domestic burls, resin and recycled skateboards allows me to explore endless possibilities and create unique, one of a kind pieces. Support the show
Max Brosi - Ireland
June 19, 2021 22:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBSculptural woodturner based in NW Ireland......inspired by the shapes, textures, and materials I find along the coast Support the show
Ashley Harwood - South Carolina, USA
June 06, 2021 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBAshley Harwood is a woodturner, instructor and installation artist. She turns utilitarian bowls, ornaments and jewelry. Her design aesthetic is heavily influenced by a background in glassblowing and her works are completed entirely on the lathe. She began woodturning at the suggestion of her father and apprenticed under Stuart Batty. Turning for over nine years, she’s traveled throughout the U.S., Eastern Canada, the U.K and Australia teaching and demonstrating her woodturning expertise. ...
John Briggs - Washington, USA
June 06, 2021 03:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBI was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up snowboarding, skateboarding, sailing, and fishing. I was in a car accident in 2008 that left me paralyzed from the waist down. At the time of the accident, I was a journeyman electrician living on my small sailboat in Seattle. After the accident, I had a couple dark years but eventually met my wife at a dog training class and came back to the land of the living. I went back to school, studying electrical engineering and experimenti...
Franz Keihofer - Berchtesgadener Land, Germany
May 30, 2021 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBFranz Keilhofer is an outdoorsman from the Berchtesgadener Land and works as a turner with the most beautiful material of all: wood. His main passion is turning bowls. His works are characterized by reduced forms, simple elegance and timeless design. Support the show
Rebecca DeGroot - Texas, USA
May 30, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBRebecca started woodworking with her father at a very young age and continued to refine her skill through college. Six years after graduating with bachelor’s degrees in Art Education and Sculpture and Functional Art, Rebecca divides her time between her full-time career as an art educator and her passion for woodworking. Her days of teaching Art 1, Sculpture, Ceramics, Jewelry, and AP 3D Studio Art are fulfilling and the passion she shares with her students is the same fuel that keeps her in...
Greg Gallegos - Michigan, USA
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBMy Name is Greg Gallegos. I have been artistically inclined since I was very young. I was heavily into woodshop in high school. I first fell in love with the lathe there. It took me another ten years after high school to be able to purchase a lathe. After years of properly learning the craft and practicing the skills, I felt I was ready to start selling, I started with the local craft and art markets, which lead to several large national shows. These days, I have settled into a fairly norm...
Kevin Hicks - Utah, USA
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBKevin Hicks is a Utah-based woodturner who makes and sells wooden bowls, serving utensils, and rolling pins. He says he recycles trees that are felled by nature or otherwise discarded; turning them into pieces that can live forever. Kevin worked in the corporate world for about 20 years, but started his business "Big Ash Bowls" when he lost his job. He says we have beautiful trees, including ash, all over the valley and like everything else, trees die. Instead of the tree being turned in...
Owen Schroder - West Wales, UK
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBHi, I’m Owen. I’m a 19 year old keen-hobbyist/part-time woodturner living in rural West Wales, UK. My woodturning adventure began in 2013 on a pole lathe, where curiosity got me turning bits of firewood into shavings, not making anything particular, just enjoying the feeling. I was taught to focus on form, keeping it simple which is something I understand more with each piece, be it bowls, hollow forms, boxes or any piece I turn. The majority of the material I use is sourced and processed...
Janine Wang - Philadelphia, USA
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MBFor some reason my parents never controlled the way I sat. Sitting is a learned thing—that stiff right-angled-lower-case-h-shape we associate with chairs, the thing our teachers yelled at us to do in school—to sit, and to sit still. Instead, I sprawled out on the floor, squatted on my heels as I arranged Legos or poked mud with a stick, and climbed on the backs of sofas as I saw my cat do. At the dinner table doing homework, when my brother and I were too short for the dining room chairs, ...
Jacques Vesery - Maine, USA
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBJacques Vesery is an Artist/ Sculptor from Damariscotta and has lived in Maine for 20 years. Striving to create an illusion of reality, his vision and inspiration begins with repetitive patterns derived from the 'golden mean' or 'divine proportions'. The marriage of pattern, form and proportion conveys a sense of growth from within each of his pieces. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Detroit Institute of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum of Honolulu, Yale ...
Dave Dalby - Heckmondwike, UK
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBBorn 1967, farther a laundry engineer and mother a dress maker. Raised in Batley, West Yorkshire in Northern UK Spent very happy early years playing in the neighbourhood with many friends and helping dad make things in his shed, started messing about with tools mainly woodwork with a little metalwork. Excelled at school and hated every minute of it! First used a lathe at the age of 13 after playing in dad’s shed one evening. Left school ( much to the dismay of all teachers) and became a f...
Dan Tilden - Ashland, OR
May 21, 2021 14:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBWoodturning artist from Southern Oregon with a passion for art and nature. I create wood sculptures that speak through their natural features. Support the show
John Jordan - Nashville, TN
May 21, 2021 14:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBI’m John Jordan and I’ve been a woodturner for more than thirty years. I have done demonstrations for, or given hands-on lessons to, thousands of woodturners in most states in the US, as well as ten other countries. The turned and carved vessels I make are featured in numerous private and corporate collections, as well as the Public Collections of more than thirty museums. This includes seven pieces in the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the recent acquisition of two pi...
Mark Sanger - Dorset, UK
May 21, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBMy work is free flowing of simple form, I believe that it should evolve from the here and now from the initial idea to completion. I may have an idea about what I am going to create, beyond this my mind is kept open and receptive to changes that evolve along the way, on occasions it may take a different path than intended. This method allows me freedom as I work, often an unexpected change happens for a reason and should be embraced, this is a major part of the creative process and for me t...
Elizabeth Weber - Seattle, WA
May 19, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBElizabeth is a Tennessee native now living in Seattle, WA. She has always loved wooden objects, and looks for ways to add vibrancy and movement to the things she creates using colors, textures, and shapes. As a civil engineer by trade, Elizabeth loves crafting things that are both unique and timeless, and especially loves the problem-solving that woodworking presents. Support the show
Dan Young - Oregon, USA
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBDan Young is a woodturning artist who lives and works in the lush, timber-rich Santiam Valley. He teaches high school English full time and turns full time. All pieces here are created from responsibly sourced local timber. Most pieces are once-turned and finished green (still containing moisture). These pieces continue to shape themselves after they have been finished until they are completely free of moisture. Don't worry, the pieces are not wet! Dan specializes in turned and carved bowls ...
Richard Findley - Leicestershire, UK
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBRichard is a production turner based in Leicestershire. His background is in woodworking, coming from a long line of professional woodworkers. He is mainly a production turner, but also undertakes smaller commissions and one-off prototypes including turning for furniture makers, restorers, architects, designers and joiners. Richard’s work is mainly based in the UK, but his growing reputation for making the highest quality turned work has earned him commissions for items that have gone to th...
Phil Irons - UK
May 19, 2021 01:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBPresident of the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain, Phil is a master hollow form turner known best for his voids, gold leafing and depth of color. Phil has been turning since she 13, and is the author of several magazine articles and a book titled "Woodturning, Two in One." Support the show