WorldWideWoodTurners Releases January 28, 2026 Newsletter With Demos, Projects, Tips

WorldWideWoodTurners published a comprehensive newsletter on January 28, 2026 that assembles recent video demos, project ideas, tool-making plans, finishing notes and how-to links for turners of all levels. The site frames the issue with the headline: "The Newsletter for January 28, 2026 is now online here! The CUMULATIVE YEAR ... All the Demos · Project Ideas · Tools to Make · Tips and Hints Videos", making it a one-stop update for weekend projects and skill refreshers.

The newsletter is organized under clear headings: All the Demos; Project Ideas; Tools to Make; Tips and Hints Videos; For The Newbies; Expand Your Horizons; and What's Coming Up. That structure guides readers from quick viewing picks to longer study material and practical shop builds.

Several short features give immediate shop-floor value. The newsletter republishes a tip line: "So, You have turned some lovely vases but your flowers keep dying. John Lucas has a solution", pointing to a demo or writeup on stabilizing floral displays in vases. Surface treatment and color work are highlighted as an embellishment route: "@Gerald and many of our members use color to embellish their turning. Sam Angelo experiments with Jo Sonja paints to embellish some plates", offering inspiration for adding painted accents to bowls and platters.

Local and practical projects get attention too. "One of our turners, @Steve Krumanaker, turns lids for a local "bee artisan". This video, from Mike Pace, shows how he turns lids-" links a video demonstrating lid fits and profiles for small commercial clients. For turners building fundamentals, the "For The Newbies" column includes "A tip from Tim Yoder. Something you may not have thought of as a use for your tool rest." and "Tomislav Tomasic Discusses bowl gouge sharpening-", both entries that can save grinding time and avoid catch-induced repairs.

Practice and technique pieces are included. The newsletter points to "A cool way to practice your spindle turning skills from Popular Woodworking-" and calls out a recent personal post: "Carl Jacobson turned a beautiful maple burl. A unique shape- [...] You can read his thoughts on how he did, in his post-". That entry spurred a finial-focused resource: "His comment about the finial designed jogged my memory on Cindy Drozda's finials. Someone did a study of Cindy's finial shapes and figured out the ratio and proportions for her design. Here's a spreadsheet where you can plug in either the height OR base diameter and it calculates all of the other values." The newsletter preserves the files named Finial Calculations.xlsx and drozda_finials.pdf for turners who want precise finial proportions.

Upcoming and archived demos are flagged for register-and-watch action. The issue lists "Turning Time With Easy Wood Tools-" and notes "Easy Wood Tools Demo next week-". It also includes "This is last weeks live demonstration from the Woodturning Tool Store on a live edge bowl-" and prompts readers to "Click on the image below for more information and registration-". Promotional image artifacts appear in the newsletter as well, including the repeated strings 2026-01-28 20_00_05-Upgrade Your Shop! - Message (HTML).png.thumb.png.4bf62ae86e122c798b0c0a1a9d99e196.png and 2026-01-28 19_27_19-Announcing the Demonstrators for the AAW Symposium - Message (HTML).png.png.a5881afd22c4ef2debc94e898a9c7d3b.png.

What this means for readers is immediate: practical demos to watch, concrete projects to try and downloadable tools to speed layout work. Visit WorldWideWoodTurners for the full newsletter to view embedded videos, retrieve the Finial Calculations.xlsx and drozda_finials.pdf files, and register for upcoming demos so you can turn new techniques into the next project on your lathe.