South Puget Sound Woodturners to host Ethan Green's multi-axis box demo
Ethan Green’s multi-axis lidded box demo put design risk and precise layout front and center at South Puget Sound Woodturners. Members got a close look at a turner who likes to ignore convention.
Ethan Green’s taste for ignoring convention was the headline draw for South Puget Sound Woodturners’ May 2026 membership meeting notice, and the club made clear why the session mattered. Green was set to demonstrate how to turn a multi-axis lidded box, a project that pushes far beyond a basic lathe intro and asks turners to think about layout, registration and the changing geometry of every cut.
The club described Green as a turner who likes to ignore convention when the opportunity arises, and that description fits the range of work it highlighted. His pieces move from carefully made small bowls to technically demanding thin-walled vessels with organically placed openings, and he actively looks for highly contrasting wood that strengthens the form he wants to create. For members watching the demo, the lesson was not just how to make one box, but how an unconventional turning sequence can widen a shop vocabulary and open up new design choices.
South Puget Sound Woodturners published the meeting notice on May 20, 2026. The chapter also pointed to Green’s deeper ties to the organization: in the club’s 2026 board list, he is named Industry Coordinator/Outreach. That role matters in a club that says it was founded on April 21, 1994 and ranks among the top 10 clubs in the American Association of Woodturners.
Green was hardly a stranger on the club circuit before the box demo. A September 2025 newsletter had already featured him among club member demonstrators, and a January 2024 post named him the January President’s Challenge recipient while praising the rose root ball vase he brought to show-and-tell. Those earlier appearances framed him as a familiar club presence with a reputation for doing work that draws attention at the lathe and on the display table.
For South Puget Sound Woodturners, the multi-axis lidded box was the kind of program that gives a meeting its charge. It matched the club’s habit of pairing technical instruction with strong design ideas, and it gave members a direct look at how Green’s unconventional approach turns into finished form.
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