Richard Raffan turning a hard gnarly Tasmanian myrtle burl.

Richard Raffan shows a safe way of drilling large holes in small woodturning blanks.

Richard Raffan completes a nested pair of Tasmanian blackwood bowls.

Richard Raffan gets two bowls from inside a block of highly-figured Tasmanian blackwood.

Richard Raffan on ways of cutting a seasoned slab of figured camphor laurel.

Richard Raffan turns a large crossgrain box with an inset knob

Richard Raffan turns a pagoda box for the 23rd 4-Ways Project

Richard Raffan roughing a crossgrain square to a cylinder

Richard Raffan turns handles for a pair of thread chasers

Richard Raffan turns spalted wood unknown to him.

Richard Raffan turns a beaded loquat spatula using only a skew chisel

Richard Raffan escapes injury whilst turning cracked fiddleback redgum

Richard Raffan turns a thin Tasmanian musk bowl.

Richard Raffan converts split and holey Tasmanian musk burl to bowl blanks.

Richard Raffan hollowing a thin-walled elm pot through a small opening

Richard Raffan sets out to turn an enclosed vessel for the 22nd. 4-Ways project — turns a twig pot.

Richard Raffan turns a Huon pine box with a suction-fit lid.

Richard Raffan finds figured Tasmanian blackwood in firewood and turns three bowls.

Richard Raffan turns a gauge for spheres

Richard Raffan turns a scrap of grasstree into a natural edge bowl.

Richard Raffan makes a tapered sanding drum — a useful woodlathe accessory.

Richard Raffan turns a pair of ladles.

Richard Raffan on gouge entry cuts when turning wood.

Richard Raffan turns a crossgrain xanthorrhoea bowl.

Richard Raffan turns winged box for the 21st. Four-Ways project.

Richard Raffan shows how to find and eliminate splits whilst cutting a turning blank.

Richard Raffan turns a deep Huon pine store tray.

Richard Raffan turns a grasstree bowl 60mm square from scrap.

Richard Raffan cutting 10 defect-free blanks from a split grasstree Xanthorrhoea

Richard Raffan turns a crossgrain ring box.

Richard Raffan turns a set of four plates.

Richard Raffan turns a Huon box with a suction-fit lid.

Richard Raffan turns a camphor laurel tray in real time start to finish.

Richard Raffan on turning sets — the 20th. 4-Ways project

Richard Raffan converts a highly figured tiger-myrtle board to woodturning blanks

Richard Raffan designs and turns a crossgrain box.

Richard Raffan turns a grasstree hut box

Richard Raffan turns a xanthorrhoea root into an endgrain bowl and two blanks.

Richard Raffan copies a finial.

Richard Raffan turning very hard, very dry, casuarina

Richard Raffan's wood pile

Richard Raffan turns a garlic container for the 19th. 4-Ways project

Richard Raffan has problems turning eucalypt burl — a box becomes a plate.

Richard Raffan turning very dry Tasmanian eucalypt burl

Richard Raffan turns some tricky camphor laurel.

Richard Raffan turns some tough birdseye Huon pine

Richard Raffan turns Kauri Pine and shows a new undercutting tool.

Richard Raffan turning quilted tiger myrtle

Richard Raffan turns an ash bowl using only scrapers.

Richard Raffan turns a race car for the 18th 4-Ways project

Richard Raffan turning twig pots — a simple woodturning project

Richard Raffan turns and chars a hardwood dish

Richard Raffan discovers figure in a rough board of unidentified hardwood.

Richard Raffan on why a tool can suddenly lose its edge

Richard Raffan makes a depth drill — useful when turning bowls and boxes.

Richard Raffan turns an ash dish using a ¾" continental gouge

Richard Raffan turns an ash dish in real time.

Richard Raffan turns a disc vase for the 17th. 4-Ways project

Richard Raffan turns knotty and split Himalayan cedar into a bowl.

Richard Raffan turns a nut bowl from the scrap-end of a turning blank.