Turning Cool Stuff Since 2017
HTG Woodcrafts is looking forward to a great 2024, meeting our existing and new customers at various shows and events.
Our ’24 season started a bit late with Tawba Walk in Cornelius on 4/27 being our first show. It seemed like we didn’t even take a winter break, at 2:00 that Saturday we were ready to meet our wonderful customers, show-off our new line of grinders and take care of business.
What's Happening in the Shop
What We Create
In '24, our focus is on expanding our user friendly, kitchen-related products. We're now offering both peppermills and salt mills turned from domestic, imported exotic, and Spectraply*woods.
* Spectraply is a colorful wood product made from white birch that is dyed various colors and then laminated together all in a wood mill/plant located in North Anson, Maine.
Pictured left is a Spectraply Buckskin color 10″ peppermill.
What We Create
This beautiful box elder blank is hot off the lathe, getting ready for a long drying period in a paper bag. Starting moisture content is 42%, diameter is 12". We'll check bag on this one periodically starting in August. This is going to be one eye catching bowl when complete.
Top of the Sweet Spot
This picture of the same box elder bowl as above, shows the 12" diameter which we consider to be the top end of popular bowl sizing. Certainly large enough aa a tabletop fruit bowl but not too large to stow away in cabinets when not needed, We would argue that a beautiful box elder bowl like this one should never be stowed away in any cabinet, it's just too pretty. We will keep you posted on the drying progress as time passes.
a naturally cosmic bottom
This picture of the same box elder bowl as above, shows the unfinished bottom of the piece. We like to think it's Mother Nature's way of presenting a cosmic look. Perfect art for a tee-shirt.
Here's a very pretty cherry Bowl
This cherry bowl is very close to 12' in diameter and is almost ready for it's final turn. It's just over 9% moisture content. It will be sanded over the next couple of weeks and a design will be placed on the top rim. The design style is still in question as is what the final finish will be . Shiny/gloss or soft/flat. Let us know your choice, we'll keep tabs on the voting.
