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Nothing is Coincidence hopefully you have a great day. God bless.

Again - another example of excellence.

As usual beautiful!!❤

Thank you, love your thinking, also your camera angle.

Thanks 👍

I liked this video very much. You also gave me a tip on finishing the tenant! Arne from Norway.

Beautiful...the serendipitous bowl....or perhaps divine intervention?

Hello from Virginia. Yes the Virginian Cedar can have just as tight grain and has very a similar hue to the wood.

I do believe, Similar thing happened to me as well,God Bless Kent, Keep up the great work Sir Love the videos 👍.

That is simply gorgious!

Thanks!

Happy new year from Tennessee. I’m wanting to begin my journey into wood turning soon. Thank you for these informative videos.

Grest story and nice turning!

Very nice piece and excellent narration

I loved how effortlessly your turning formed that beaut. Very nice, and maybe someone in the Lebanon area could respond and send you a piece of Lebanon Cedar. It is supposed to have the same or better quality as the piece you turned. Very nice, you are a master. God bless and many more pieces.

Hello mate The best cedar for me that I have used is Cedar Of Lebanon. That also has a wonderful grain and colour but the best part is the smell, just like lemon sherbet, Keep up the great work and the fabulous training for the rest of us. Max in the UK.

Gorgeous cedar piece. Great idea to soak the tenon with ca glue. I primarily use recycled woods, wood from the side of the road or like you said tree trimmers gladly let you take what you want. Many will also just dump it at your property. Bermuda Cedar is very much mike Virginia Cedar. From south east Virginia along the coast to middle Florida Across to the coast of Texas. Louisiana has a good bit that often can be retrieved from the various water sources they were lost in during transport. I have several logs around. Thank you for sharing. Everyone stay safe, happy 😊 and healthy. From Henrico County Virginia

That looks amazing, and you've explained why I can't make a decent bowl. I can't stand up (I use a wheelchair), so I can't look down on my piece.

Very Pretty - and the storyline is really fun... Blessings to all. Lowell

Loving the dark colour!!

Let's all go visit Gavin!

Virginia Cedar (Juniperus Virginiana) is Eastern Red Cedar. That is a beautiful bowl. Phil Anderson would be proud.👍👍

Nice piece, Kent. Thanks for the play-by-play turning. Cool story!

I have turned Abaco Pine from the Bahamas .....it was very aromatic tight grained ,hard,very unlike what most would think of as a pine

Beautiful little bowl Kent.

That is a lovely bowl, nice job. Really like the wood

Sometimes I turn a lidded bowl (end grain turning) in these small whole pieces. It would be interesting to see you demonstrate this

Juniperis virginious is eastern red cedar. It is fragrant. It is soft and usually has borer damage. Spelling of genus and spp May be wrong but clos

I love turning new and to me different woods. I sell some at a local Kansas Made shop. A fellow from south Texas called me 6-8 months ago and wondered if I could turn things from ebony. He was just traveling through. Surprising to me ebony does grow in South Texas. This tree was special to his family and it has really been a fun learning experience for me. 30 or so pieces so far.

Beautiful wood! I scooped up a quantity of cherry from a small tree that someone had cut down and left the logs by the curb in my neighborhood. It has already yielded some nice bowls and bottle stoppers.

Virginia cedar is Eastern Red Cedar. Juniperus Virginiana. It is the common cedar tree in the eastern US.

Great story. And I love the piece. I've been using linseed oil when I turn red cedar. I still have a lot to learn. It does get darker. I'm a newbie to turning wood.

A: Bermuda is beautiful. Had a second visit scheduled for 2020 but Covid interfered. Maybe in the near future I can go again. The people of Bermuda are truly wonderful. B. How did customs feel about you bringing a piece of raw wood back to the States? I know sometimes they get picky about such things. Thanks for a good channel that we can all learn from!

Gorgeous bowl.

Very nice. A beautiful piece.

Love watching your videos. I have not been in my shop for a few years due to health issues, but hope to be back soon. Your videos help me keep turning fre ash in my mind. Please keep up the good work. May God richly bless you.

That turned out beautiful. I like how you worked out the balance of the ends. You are a master

Pretty little bowl! Virginia cedar (aka eastern red cedar) is Juniperus virginiana. Bermuda cedar (Juniperus bermudiana} is in the same genus, but different species. So they should close to the same when turned. We have Ashe Juniper here (Juniperus ashei) and I turn a lot of it. It is a nice tight grain as well, but can be a bit brittle. However, it is difficult to find round pieces like yours. The trunk is especially craggy with tons of bark inclusions. But it still finishes beautifully.

Beautiful bowl.

The color on the inside when you showed the finished bowl was such a beautiful surprise. We have Western Red Cedar here and I hope to get some to turn someday. I get my lathe tomorrow and still waiting for my grinder and safety gear but will hopefully be starting soon. Your channel is a great collection of good info I feel like I can succeed because of it. Thank you So Much!!

Another option is to not apply any liquid finish to the bowl. A finish is not a necessity. I made a beautiful little Eastern Red Cedar bowl earlier this year. Yes, as all wood will do, it will turn brown with age. But applying a finish is not a necessity. My bowl looks great with no finish at all! The wood isn't going to suddenly self destruct without a finish on it. :D

Beautiful grain, great job

Thanks for the tip on the CA on the Tenon. I was doing a public Demo a few weeks ago and lost two bowls with the Tenon shearing off. I have another public demo in about two weeks, with more of the same wood. I will use the CA to give it a little help. Thanks Kent

Beautiful wood 😃😃

Adorei o vídeo e a forma como conseguiu a madeira. Se um dia visitar o Brasil será um imenso prazer recebe-lo, aqui temos muitas espécies de madeira, temos uma casa de campo e la tenho minha oficina onde pratico o hobby de woodturnig . ja assisti inúmeros vídeos seu e acho extremamente didáticos. forte abraço Edelcio

Thank you again Kent for your teaching and showing this piece. I was wondering if there is any problem with customs when bringing this wood out of Bermuda?

Dang! That is one sad looking chisel!

I’m an amateur turner from Bermuda. I played a bit in school. Now, many years later, I’m getting back in to it. Your techniques have really advanced me quickly. I am aspiring to get good at it!😅I have a LOT of Bermuda Cedar to turn. I have a picture of my first live edge Bermuda cedar bowl. Travis (sorry, my wife’s account). I’d love to take some lessons! Maybe next time you visit!

Fascinating video. I had an idea that the US Govt frowned on the importation of foodstuffs and agricultural products from overseas. Are there special rules regarding importing interesting bits of wood for turning/decorative purposes?

Kenny, I love the passion you have about turning. It really shows in the finished bowl. I have a question about 3 or 4 bowl chucks. I have an older grizzly lathe and I want to try to turn a bowl, but I really would like your guidance because I have no idea what is best for me. What chuck and where to buy online. Thanks for your time and I will continue to watch and learn more from you.

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Virginia cedar? Eastern red cedar is juniperus virginiana. Could that be Virginia cedar?

Is this cedar aromatic like our western cedar? It has such a rich color. Love the end piece. I feel motivated to go out to the wood pile and grab some cedar I have out there. Thanks for the video.

Thanks, Kent. Sounds like a divine appointment to me. That's super-fun for you and enjoyable for all of us watching too... so I'll just say, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow..."

The coincidence of some one from Bermuda contacting you out of the blue when you planned to visit is a great example of what is termed synchronicity

what are the rules or laws about bringing wood home from other countries? Or are there any? Awesome looking bowl.

Thank you so much Kent for all your videos! I've learnt so much from them and im now an addicted wood bowl-turner aswell. I have a question: Ive used linseed oil since the start but i dont like the yellowish colour it gives and im thinking about to change, maybe to tung oil or som shellac. If i choose to use shellac, is food safe? ive read about it on your website but cant get my head around it. Thanks again Kent. Greetings from Sweden.

Nice turning. How did it smell as you turned it? Well done. Thanks for sharing

You may want to try mineral oil , it does not darken the wood . I've used it on a couple pleases of alder I've turned .

I just turned a small piece of Red Cedar; Grain is nowhere near as tight as that chunk you have. Shop smells good, though!!

I am an amateur turner and enjoy your demos. I am thinking about taking your sharpening course. I have been turning for 3 years but still feel like I struggle with sharpening. Currently I have the Robert Sorby belt sharpening system. Will that make it more difficult for me to follow along. I want to get a slow speed grinder as well but can't afford it at this time.

My first thoughts on the wood were import restrictions. Did you check with the ICE or just get it through?

Nice work Kent! Does it have the same smell as eastern red cedar? Take care and GOD BLESS 🙏🏻!

Did you have a problem with getting this through customs? Enjoyed the video as always. And I always love to hear the back story.❤

Very nice wood! The coloration has a hint of juniper to my eyes. Did you get any hassle at US Customs bringing this into your country? When I was in Zambia, I acquired a piece of native wood that the nationals called Mooqua wood (it's dark like walnut). I live in Canada and, although Canadian Customs looked at it long and hard, they did let me keep it. That was in 1986 and, because it comes with a lot of memories of my stay in Africa, I don't seem to have the heart to cut this 3 x 5 x 12" beauty. Maybe one day... who knows? Your story brought back some good feelings. Thanks, man!

Would a rag applied sanding sealer turn the wood as dark? I turned some small bowls from will. Applied sealer and they didn't darken much.

So let me see if I've got this straight, Kent. Are you saying that it is possible for the tenon to just "pop off" the bottom of a bowl? Who would have thought such a thing?

This is wonderful. Is there any secret to drying a piece of lumber like this? Or is it better to just turn it green?

Did you have any problem get through customs with the wood?

Would it be possible to show the before and after at the end. It may sound strand by somewhere around the middle of the turning I have a hard time picturing the original piece. I'm not turning yet, but am fascinating with the beautiful bowls you turn out.

Does the Bermuda cedar have the typical strong aroma that a mainland red cedar have?

Dark is OK, but I wish it was shiney.

Your friend in Bermuda may have been referring to Eastern Red cedar, Juniperus virginiana?

Was there any issues with US Customs when leaving Bermuda trying to bring in a hunk of wood to the US. Did he mailed it to you?

interrupted cuts like that are tricky for me. I always end up getting grooves and having to use a scraper to get rid of them

Hi Ken! Beautiful piece and fun story! I've got a question and a story regarding one of your other videos. 1) Do you have any insight or experience in turning in a non-climate-controlled shop? I live in Wisconsin...winter is coming...and my woodshop (a roughly 120yr old dairy barn) is entirely uncontrolled - no humidity control, no heat, no AC. If I get a wild hair and turn some bowls when it's below freezing (I assure you I will)...then take said bowls inside...is it basically a death sentence of cracking even if the wood is several years old and acclimated to the ambient outdoor humidity? My last shop was in my basement where I had no such issues year around but I moved last year and no longer have an accommodating basement for wood-turning. 2) I watched your video on the subject of gouges where you explained why it is not safe to turn a bowl with a spindle gouge. Well...here's my story...my lathe (a jet 9"), a Nova G3 chuck, and a 1/2" bowl gouge were all comprised in a Christmas gift from my brother for Christmas 2012...his stated hope was for me to get into turning bowls - I used to be a machinist and he comically thought I'd pick right up on woodturning... because lathes😂 My brother never did any lathe work but we shared in many other avenues of woodworking for several years prior. He was tragically lost to a motorcycle accident in May 2014 and up to that point, I hardly spent any time on the lathe because of college and later graduate school - I did a couple spindle turnings while he was around but never attempted a bowl...I got enough heart attacks from the spindle turning catches that I was pretty hesitant to even try. Well after grad school was done, I had some time for hobbies again but with the loss of my brother still fresh, stepping into the woodworking shop we had outfitted at my parents house was damn near impossible...turning on that lathe was vastly harder...but eventually I wanted to honor my brother's wish to get into bowl turning so I finally got around to it in 2016, got some (innumerable) horrendous catches, got unbelievably furious that I wasn't figuring it out...found some RU-vid videos on catches and finally...painfully... learned how to turn bowls without any concern about catches. Back then I couldn't afford the wolverine system for sharpening my gouge so I made one from plywood and used my other hobby of blacksmithing to forge an adjustable bracket system to use the plywood contraption with a vintage hand crank grinder and a brand new fine stone - I then reprofiled the gouge to a swept back grind (I don't remember the angle and I can't check as I'm out of town) but that was a game changer on my enjoyment of using the bowl gouge! From there, I've enjoyed years of fantastic success and joy from turning bowls, pens, and candle holders for friends and family that I'm quite proud of as recently as a couple weeks ago... through it all, I've never felt the need to go out and buy another gouge - I've bought a parting tool, a skew, and a sander and really feel like that's all I need...so here's the punch line of this story...that "bowl" gouge my brother bought me...is NOT...a BOWL gouge but a 1/2" spindle gouge. My brother didn't know the difference when he bought it...I assumed it was a bowl gouge because he told me it was...and I never knew there was a spindle gouge (except for the giant spindle roughing gouges I've seen)... all until about a week ago when I saw your video and looked at the label on the back of the sleeve for the gouge that reads "Spindle Gouge, 1/2" 🤣🤣🤣 so now I'm wondering if I need to go out and drop $150 on a bowl gouge 🤔 Oh and by the way...even though I can comfortably afford the wolverine system today...I still use my plywood contraption and hand crank grinder 😂

Does it have the same smell as our cedar trees?

What's the names off the material which you used to strengthen the spigot?

nice wood!! i have a question about hollowing the bowl. why not take the center out first , so you have you,re dept right away and it prevents catches , and its easier to start hollowing. this is what richard raffan said when i asked him. what is the bennefet of this method?

I've been under the impression that Bermuda cedar was wiped out by disease a couple of decades ago

This blank can be used to make a beautiful and useful end grain box rather than a clunky piece of wood. It seems to me that not every piece needs to be made into a bowl.

Could he be referring to juniperus Virginiana? Not sure on the spelling. We commonly call it eastern red cedar in the US. Not cedar however. It's juniper

Before you started to take the bulk of the centre out I thought a lid of the centre would look magic.

I was told the Bermuda cedar is now extinct ???

And you didn't have any problems with Customs?

I'm an old-school woodturner, and that just wasted a nice piece of wood 😢

CLICK BAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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