Rotational Matters Wood Turning: bowls, kitchen utensils and home decor

Rotational Matters

Wood Turning

Welcome to Rotational Matters Woodturning

I create useful works of art from wood through woodturning. Using the lathe means my creations are a variation on a cylinder shape from bowls (boxes in woodturner's lingo), and coasters, to spindle based objects like dibbers (planting sticks) and muddlers (to mix your drinks). My workshop in located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. I usually work with local Maritime Canadian wood.

Mark Hazen

Click here to see items available for sale

2025 Events for Rotational Matters

I will be at the following craft shows for the 2025 Christmas season.

Milton Community Hall Christmas Craft Fair, Rte 7 PEI (Nov. 8-9)
Dartmouth Handcrafters Guild show at the Zatzman Sportsplex, Dartmouth, NS (Nov. 14-16)
St Luke's United Christmas Craft show, St Margarets Bay NS (Nov. 21)
and the Dartmouth Makers Winter Show (Nov 28-29), Christ Church Hall, Dundas St., Dartmouth NS

If you wish to buy something you see here online, please contact me at turner@rotational-matters.ca

Many people are curious about the process of woodturning. I have made two videos of me making a beech bowl and a biscuit cutter so you can see some of the process. These are not meant to be instructional videos.

News from the Shop:

November 2025

This month is alternating between building inventory in the shop and selling it at weekend craft shows. I have been making some ornaments which left me the problem how to display them so that was yesterday's project. I am thinking that it could also be the prototype for my older daughter's Christmas tree! I just finished the commission of the largest salad bowl, I have ever made. Since it was larger than the wood I have on hand, I had to try and source it. I am still in a state of shock about how difficult and expensive it was to find the kiln-dried wood in the desired thickness. I had to settled for an almost 3" thick plank; and cut it and glue it together. I did get the car back into the garage but it would be a more comfortable fit if my raw wood inventory made its way to bowl blanks.