Josh and Beth Buettner are a husband-and-wife woodturning team based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Their work combines traditional woodturning with carving, embellishment, and epoxy to create functional and sculptural forms. Josh, a retired Army veteran, is largely self-taught and has studied under several renowned woodturners. Beth began as a self-taught carver and now focuses on surface design and mixed techniques. Together, they create expressive wood art that blends technical precision with thoughtful surface design.
Josh’s signature work includes the Kardiaform, a multi-axis, double-mount hollow form turned into the shape of a heart—kardia being the Greek word for heart. These pieces explore movement, balance, and form through complex turning processes. Josh and Beth collaborate on their Fragmented Series, which combines turning, carving, and epoxy fill to create mosaic-style vessels inspired by stained glass, emphasizing the relationship between form, pattern, and surface.
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Demonstrations
Turning the Heartbeat: The Art of Kardia Forms
These are my multi-axis, double mouth hollowforms or Kardia Form (Josh only). These have a heart shape appearance and Kardia is Greek for heart. The demo will consist of starting with a bandsaw prepped blank, turning primary and secondary tenons, flipping between tenons and forming mouths and blending between the 2, setting up an X-Y vise jig to carve excess material away in preparation of hollowing (hollowing will be talked about but not demoed due to time constraint).
Mosaic In Wood: Carving, Color, and Collaboration
Fragmented Series, a collaboration between Beth and Josh. Stained Glass inspired wood and epoxy bowls/platters. When light passes through a prism it “Fragments” out into ROYGBIV, a play on seeing through the epoxy. Demo will consist of using 4 or 5 blanks in various stages of the process. Turning the outside, drawing the design, carving 1 of the cells and walking through each burr used, using silicone caulk as a dam and pouring 1 cell of pigmented epoxy, and trueing outside and hollowing piece with pulling and scraping techniques to finish (minus the sanding). Talk will be heavy on the collaborative efforts in these pieces.
