Turning of the Week for January 8th, 2024

[Tom Gall]

My selection for Turning of the Week for January 8th, 2024 is "Sunset Breeze" by Russ Braun. Many of us enjoyed the first AAW Forum follow-along “Project” by Russ. His explanations of the process and methods he uses, along with some humorous tidbits, made for an educational and enjoyable experience – especially for us non-segmenters! Thank you for that, Russ.

As we anticipated the end result of the finished Wenge piece, “Shooting the Breeze” (a fantastic piece), Russ then showed us the companion piece made at the same time (different woods, slightly different form, etc.) … knocked my socks off !!! Well done, sir.

 

[Michael Anderson]

Great choice, Tom!! Russ did a killer job with the follow alongs. Mind blowing stuff. I love that he came up with two vessel designs. Hard to choose a favorite. Great job Russ!

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

Great selection! Congratulations Russ!

 

[Vincent Vogel]

Congratulations Russ, your follow along was great.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Woo-hoo Russ!! Your hard work paid off! Congratulations on an awesome and beautiful piece!

 

[Dave Roberts]

Congratulations Russ this is a great piece, I will have to read your follow along, very intriguing well done.

 

[Paul May]

Congrats and well deserved Russ!

 

[Darryn Achall]

Congrats and well deserved Russ!

Yes, well deserved. Enjoyed following along.

 

[Linda Ferber]

Congratulations Russ!

 

[Russ Braun]

This follow along project continues its journey. Thanks for the selection Tom, I’m honored. The great thing about this piece(s)/ journey is this process is an excellent example of the rewards of sharing your stuff with other people. What you put into something is typically exceeded by what you get out of it. Sharing my processes for others to try was plenty reward for me, I loved the feeling that yielded. Two swap pieces that people were stoked to receive, accolades from people seeing the pictures, and now photo of the week…..icing on the cake for sure!! The rewards keep coming along.

Everyone should take this pathway of sharing!!

 

[Russ Braun]

Great choice, Tom!! Russ did a killer job with the follow alongs. Mind blowing stuff. I love that he came up with two vessel designs. Hard to choose a favorite. Great job Russ!

Thankfully, you don’t have too….woohoo!!

 

[Doug Drury]

Congrats Russ.

 

[David Bartell]

An impressive piece in all respects.

 

[Jim McLain]

Congratulations Russ. Great piece, almost makes me want to be a segmenter again.

 

[Michael Moody]

Round work with quite a twist! I’m in awe.

 

[Gene Pitstick]

Congrats Russ!

 

[Bill Boehme]

Congratulations, Russ.

 

[Steve Bonny]

Congratulations Russ!! Well deserved.

 

[Dimitris Psilopatis]

Congratulations Russ. Great piece !