Live Session to Cover Small Funky Bowl Turning and Lathe Sanding Techniques

Six sessions into 2025 alone, the "All Things Woodturning" live stream hosted by Tod Raines at the Woodturning Tool Store had already covered bur oak hollowforms, faceplate mounting, and jam-chucking tenons. On March 20, 2026, Raines added another practical double-header to that growing archive: a live session titled "Small Funky Bowl and Sanding at the Lathe."

The pairing is characteristically Raines. Rather than treating a project and its finishing phase as separate conversations, the session brought both under one stream, letting viewers follow a small bowl from turning through sanding without a gap. Funky bowls, which push away from symmetrical round forms toward irregular, organic shapes, demand flexible tool control and an eye for when to stop chasing a clean curve. Folding lathe sanding technique into the same session gave the format a start-to-finish arc that single-topic episodes rarely achieve.

The live stream was simulcast to Raines's personal Facebook page, the Woodturning Tool Store Facebook page, his YouTube channel, and on StreamYard On-Air Webinar, typically every other Friday at 1:00 pm Central. That multi-platform approach has built the series into one of the more accessible shop-based educational formats in the online turning community, with archived videos of all past "All Things Woodturning" live streams available for replay.

Lathe sanding is a subject that gets less structured attention than tool technique in most turning content, yet it's where surface quality is won or lost. Getting grits, speed, and pressure right on a small bowl, particularly one with deliberate asymmetry, requires a different approach than sanding a conventional form. Covering it live, in real time, and alongside the turning itself rather than as a tacked-on afterthought reflects the practical, problem-first approach that has defined the series.

Any scheduled live stream is posted on the Woodturning Tool Store site prior to going live, giving the channel's followers advance notice to tune in or set a reminder. The March 20 session is now part of the permanent archive, available to anyone who missed the live broadcast.