Lancaster Area Woodturners

One of the favorites in the shop are hollowing tools made by David Ellsworth. Easily sharpened with a touch on the wheel, and very effective when used with a light touch – these are not material hogging tools – they give great results for the beginner to advanced turner. Ellsworth first developed the use of

As an admitted Anglophile, I find the wood available across the United Kingdom to be endlessly interesting. As you move from standard English Walnut and Oak to the Downy Beech that grows in the Scottish Highlands, the variety is fantastic, and I wish was as available to us as the abundance we have in South

LAW Treasurer and Zoom Master John Kelsey recently participated in an AAW sponsored webinar that covered how woodturning clubs have used remote meeting software and readily available hardware to sail through pandemic shutdowns. This portion is John’s contribution to the webinar. Very interesting and genuinely worth your time watching, you’ll hear tips and tricks that

by John Kelsey, Lancaster Area Woodturners & Video Evangelist Our woodturning club has 60 members, 40 of them local to our rather large and semirural Pennsylvania county, and 20 from away. During the pandemic we have relied on Zoom to hold a monthly club meeting (first Tuesdays at 7pm) plus a weekly Coffee Hour (Thursdays

Though this announcement was made in March, it’s finally coming to the top of the in-box here at the sprawling global headquarters of Lancaster Area Woodturners: former Pennsylvanian, good friend and turner extraordinaire David Ellsworth is being awarded the Smithsonian Visionary Award in October. Our words cannot do Mr. Ellsworth justice for his commitment and