A Busy Summer for Ted’s Woodshop
This has been a busy summer for Ted’s Woodshop. Our Homer summer has been unseasonably cool (downright cold) and rainy. The good news is that we haven’t run out of rain water for our gardens. The bad news is that, well, spring came late, summer hasn’t arrived, and it’s July already. But we’ve been keeping […]
Earthquake Bowl
Recently we received an email from some good customers in Eagle River, Alaska, who own several of Ted’s dizzy bowls. One was a bowl we named Marmalade because its color scheme resembled the orange stuff you’d spread on toast. Unfortunately, it was a casualty of the November 2018 magnitude 7.1 earthquake that caused millions of […]
“Into the Woods” — A Collaborative Show
For the month of September, Ted and two fellow Ptarmigan Arts woodworkers combined their talents in a collaborative show entitled “Into the Woods.” Joined by woodturner George Overpeck and master of marquetry and stone lamps Dan Fischer, Ted had the opportunity to showcase his work in the co-op’s Back Room Gallery display space, which is […]
Dizzy Bowls We Have Known and Loved
Over the past year, Ted created a series of Dizzy Bowls that sold almost as quickly as he could make them. Dizzy Bowls are segmented bowls that are constructed, starting at the top, from a series of rings. The process is time-consuming and requires meticulous accuracy in cutting and laminating the various woods that make […]
What Is A Dizzy Bowl?
After watching a YouTube video by Dennis Edwards on a unique type of segmented bowl called a Dizzy Bowl, Ted decided to give it a try. He started by cutting and gluing together different widths of butternut, walnut, padauk, dyed veneer, phoebe, cherry, maple, bloodwood, purpleheart, lacewood, spalted alder, and figured maple. Out of this block, he cut four […]