In the May 2018 issue of The Highland Woodturner, Temple Blackwood offers some helpful tips for doing a woodturning demonstration for a crowd of people. Going beyond the typical “keep things moving so people don’t get bored” advice we usually hear, Temple has great information about types of wood to use for a dramatic result, tricks for preparing for the demo and how to apply a finish without splashing your audience.
In an effort to share my own passion for wood as a sensually rewarding material to work with in a concrete way and to communicate with both other people as well as with the source-trees, I developed a series of demonstrations using wood that clearly comes directly from the tree.
Click here to read more of Temple’s great article on How to Demonstrate Woodturning.
Click here to read the May 2018 issue of The Highland Woodturner