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Build Your Inventory Fast with these Quick Wood Turning Projects

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Table set up for sales at craft fair
Wooden bowls, scoops and a spoon

Table set up for sales at craft fair

This week’s wood turning projects.

Some quick turning projects to help you build up your inventory.  Some of these projects do require kits in order to complete them.  There is a coffee cup, wooden scoop, coffee scoop kit, turning captive rings, and how to turn a baby rattle with a captive ring.  Enjoy.

 

Coffee Cup

What could be more satisfying than drinking that first cup of coffee from a mug that you turned yourself.

I would use the tail stock as additional support to clean up the bottom of the cup until there was just a little bit left to turn off.  Do not expand your jaws too much to hold the cup when you reverse it or you could split the sides of your mug.  Remember the mug would not be dishwasher or microwave safe.  Even though you will be finishing the outside of the mug it would be a good idea to use a food grade finish anyway.

You can find a 16oz travel mug turning kit on-line.  It gives you the coffee cup insert, lid, and instructions on how to turn the project from either solid wood or a segmented form.

Wooden Scoop

Turned wooden scoops are very useful in the kitchen.

The scoop turned in this video is quite chunky.  Since a scoop is quick, easy to turn, and doesn’t use a lot of wood, a little practice will produce a pleasing shape in no time.

Wooden scoops are tricky to make if you want a specific amount in the scoop.

To make a scoop for measuring coffee you can purchase the scoop then turn a wooden handle.

Captive rings

Captive rings are a great puzzle for the non-wood turner.  This post shows you how to make a captive ring with a captive ring tool.

Captive Ring Tool can help you make captive rings on your spindle projects.

Captive rings can be turned on any spindle project such as a wine goblet, honey dipper, baby rattle, or a crochet hook.  A captive ring tool makes it easy to turn the rings.

A Turned Wooden Baby Rattle

A turned wooden baby rattle is a beautiful natural toy.

A turned Baby Rattle with three captive rings.

Made out of wood there is no fear of bpa ingestion.  This one uses captive rings as the rattle.  Remember the rattle needs to be safe for children to use.

Safe dimensions for a turned wooden baby rattle.

It is important to make the rattle large enough that it will not pose a choking hazard.  If you are making captive rings on the rattle then they need to be large enough that they couldn’t be easily chewed through or broken.  I would recommend a good hardwood with tight grain.

Each day I share a wood turning project on my facebook page.

 

What wood turning projects have you been working on?  Leave me a comment.

 

Filed Under: Inspiration, Projects, Technique Tagged With: small turnings, turned captive rings, turned wooden baby rattle, turned wooden coffee mug, turned wooden scoop, turning wooden toys, wood turning, wood turning videos

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  1. LORI POLLART

    December 27, 2017 at 6:39 pm

    My brother has asked me to turn some corner protectors for him . Do you have any ideas on how to do this since it has to fit around the corner?

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    • Robin

      December 27, 2017 at 11:14 pm

      Hi Lori. I’ve no idea. Could he provide you with a picture of what he wants? That would help me out.

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