Kevins Woodturnings

WELCOME to Kevin's Woodturnings!

The woodturnings found in this website are examples of my unique designs of that I show at local and regional art fairs. The new woodturnings below are made from solid burls with contrasting rims and bases of contrasting exotic woods and inset with turquoise stone chips. Many of my woodturnings are constructed from hundreds of pieces of exotic wood which I glue together in intricate patterns, called segmented woodturning in the US and polychromatic in the UK. The patterns go completely through the turning. Visit my Bowls page to see some examples of my work.

New woodturnings! Click on the photos to go to their gallery page.

It may take several weeks to complete a bowl or vase due to the woodturning's complexity and glue drying time. I use a wood lathe to turn the glued assembly smooth. The final finishing step is numerous coats of lacquer, buffed with a beeswax/carnauba wax blend. Visit The Studio to see my tools and work area. I design my woodturnings using a pencil and paper but I figure out how to build my designs using a computer. See the software I use to help construct my woodturnings on the Software page.

All woodturnings shown on this website are "one of a kind" and may be sold at any time. Similar pieces can be made on a commission basis but will never be exactly the same due to differences in the wood and the whims of the artist.

Fellow woodturners might be interested in some of the other pages on my website. There are instruction pages about designing segmented bowls using a No Math Method and a PC Method. There are instruction pages showing the photo sequence of construction steps for making two types of segmented bowls, Basic Frame Miter and Compound Miter. There are two pages with plans for constructing accurate ring-segment cutting sleds for a table saw, Frame Miter Sled and Compound Miter Sled. I have also included a page that shows several interesting home-made tools I use in my studio, see Tools and Jigs. The Links page has hyperlinks to websites of other segmented woodturners as well as tool and information websites that I recommend.

My name is Kevin Neelley and I live in Lenexa, Kansas. I am a member of the Kansas City Woodturners which is a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. I have made over two hundred wooden bowls, vases, platters and other objects in the thirteen years that I have been woodturning. Thank you for visiting my website. If you have any comments or are interested in purchasing my work, please visit E-Mail & Comments.

This page was last updated on 1/1/2012.