Just a quick note to say "thank you" on behalf of my grandson Kevin Worsley and myself (Lindley Ruddick) for the wonderful experience of watching you turn a block of wood into a goblet at the OC Fair today 7/19/13 and then having you present it to him as a gift. Thank you. Your work on the woodie is outstanding. I hope to see it in person one of these days at a soCal rod show.

ok, now i have to make that. my wife loves wine and this is our 6th wedding anniversary which just happens to be wood. now all i need is a lathe and all the tools. fantastic video.

Just ran across this video. What a nice demonstration and explanation of how and why he was doing during the turning.

That is one of the nicest goblet designs I have seen. Good work!

Jim, Nice job! I learned goblet turning many years ago (30) from Dr Lee Carter at CSU. He taught the art very similar to you. I turned many goblets back when I was a woodshop teacher, retired now and should get back to doing them. Your video inspired me to!

Superbly turned, great to watch a master at work. Cheers Mike

+James Santhon Great video. I really enjoyed watching your work, and hearing your description of your technique. Thanks for sharing!

We're over 50,000 views. How about that! Thanks so much for watching.

Gorgeous piece !! loved the details below the cup

Great work. It is good to see the close ups of where the chisel is cutting and how you hold the tools.

A beautiful goblet, thanks for the demonstration

James Thank you for your reply and I have watched this video several times before turning my my first goblet and again to review my mistakes. Thank you for this nice teaching viedo

Hi, I am new to wood turning so need as much help as possible this clip on how to make a goblet I have found the most helpful and most informative it has really helped in my progress as a wood turner many thanks to James

I just bookmarked this video! I have been creating some small goblet-like vases that I mate with a birch wood bases for NCAA bracket trophies. My results (also in walnut) have not been stellar... I plan to study your approach -- thanks for sharing!

Sweet goblet keep up the good work.

Beautiful work!

A superb demonstration Cheers Mike

I hope to meet some of you woodturners at the AAW symposium in Portland Oregon May 23 through the 26th 2024.

Very nice goblet well turned, warrants a subscription so I'll subscribe right now Bill

:) u make it sound easy...and im pretty sure its not. there are years of experience behind this. got much respect for your skills! must try my hands on this one day. cheers and thanks for the reply. :)

At the end I realized that my jaw was open. Magic!!

30,000 views! Wow! Thanks for checking my video out, and for all the positive comments.

Beautiful!

It took ten years, but we made it to 70,000 view. I didn't know there were 70,000 turners to begin with. Thanks for viewing.

Thanks for sharing, nice turning...

beautiful peace of work

Wow great skills on a lathe. keep up the good work. :)

Great tute - thanks :)

Excellent!

very nice turning:D

ok... thanks. looks like a lot of fun actually. will do this one day! ;)

Merci pour cette superbe démonstration !!!

nice one got me going :-D

Notice I never turn more than an inch away from the mass, so, unless I get a catch, the force of the tool isn't going to adversly affect the stem. The wood was very stable, and didn't move much. That is why I use dry wood. Green wood is much more difficult to make the thin stem, so I would put a paper towel in the cup of the goblet, and bring the tailstock up to the cup, but I wouldn't tighten it just insert it lightly into the cup to keep it from whipping.

I am quite excited right now as I have just been notified that I have been selected to be a demonstrator at the American Association of Woodturners national symposium this June in Phoenix. Hope to see all of you there!

very nice project

I have used mineral oil. It won't become rancid, and smell. You can also use something called salad bowl finish.

Another thing that I didn't do on the video was to drill a 3/4" hole on the cup end about 2 1/4" deep, or 19mm x 57mm deep. That way I'm not digging in to too much end grain, and it makes it a little easier to hollow out the cup.

nice goblet,,,

A perfect video. Thank you. Just one thing I did notice. Just this afternoon I turned my 4th goblet, strangely in walnut. It was local wood from a tree where I live here in Kent in the uk that was cut down two years ago. My observation was the huge colour difference in your piece compared to mine, yours being much darker. Is your American walnut a different species to ours in the uk do you know? Or will my piece darken down with age? It is perfectly dry.Thanks again.

The name of the friction polish I used is Shell Wax Finish, and is sold at Wood Craft stores. I used triple e polishing compound prior to applying the shell wax.

My question alcohol is used to dissolve shellac would it be a safe finish for a wine goblet or will the shellac harden and not dissolve?

Great job. With the finish that you used can you use wine in the goblet?

Nice

Is this the same James Santhon, that made the 34 woodie, I have been wondering how the rear windows are mounted are they in a stainless steel frame set in a dado?

fuck me!! as that slender stem got longer and longer i got more and more nervous that it would break. i never got nervous watching a woodworking video before!!...lol awesome job!

Where I can find to buy the shellac wax cream? Thanks great video.

Hi James thanks for you great video, could you please tell me what is the length and circumference of the piece of walnut that you used in this project, cheers David From Tasmania, newbie here to turning.

Yaaaaaay! We reached 10,000 views. Yipppeeee! It only took two years. I guess it didn't go viral, but what the heck. It is still pretty significant. I tell all of my friends that if they have insomnia that they should watch my video, because it will put them to sleep in 5 minutes.

im trying to make a goblet for my school project and i was wondering if you can also do this with pine or ash what would you recomend

How to you finish the wood so that it will hold liquid. I teach woodworking at my High School and a lot of the students want to make cups and bowls, but I always tell them that they are more for decoration and not so much for use... Any tips?

Yaaaayyyy, sixty thousand views! Who would've thunk it.

Jeez I started off watching metal detecting videos and next thing I know I'm watching how to make a cup

Yes. I take epoxy 30 min pot life. and add in slowly Acetone until the epoxy is thin but not like water. Start brushing into the mug until fully covered outside too if you wish. NOW the Safety WARNING AND HEED THIS. The mug cannot be used until the finish has cured and degassed for at least a month or more. once it has cured there should be no issues with hot beverages.

What is the name you use varnish

did you basically use the same gouge for that whole project?

Lovely demonstration, without histrionics.

what is your RPM for turning this?

That's what I call a goblet

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quite so and I ve only watched part way through

It's ART. All art can be seen as wasteful if it's looked at it from a non-artistic perspective. There is no other way to create that piece without it breaking and then I can imagine how "wasteful" it would be to simply toss the whole thing. Art uses up resources, purely for aesthetic purposes, and a great thing is the result.

Shellac isn't a good finish if you're actually going to drink out of the wooden goblet. Mineral oil, or some sort of salad bowl finish might do the trick.