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Health - Are you turning at the right height for you?

Is Your Woodturning Affecting Your Health?

I love woodturning.  It is fun to turn wood into beautiful projects.  Spending time at the lathe is both relaxing and productive.  Yet woodturning can result in challenges to your health.  How you turn and the environment you turn in can affect you.  Here are 5 ways that turning can have an impact on your …

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You are an artisan, and your one of a kind, hand crafted work, is your unique competitive edge. Recognize this, sharpen it, and hone it to a cutting edge.

How to Sharpen Your Competitive Edge

When you sharpen your tools for woodturning you shape the tool to cut wood in a specific way.  You may have two bowl gouges with slightly different grinds for two different purposes.  How you respond to your customers may require you to sharpen your responses to maintain your competitive edge. I’ve had people come into …

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Bluebird houses

Bluebird House Project

This is an easy woodworking project that only takes one board.  That is what a bluebird house is.  A simple plan is provided and step by step instructions are given so you can make your very own bluebird house.   Bluebird House Project Bluebirds are that quick flash of blue that you catch out of …

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Woodturning finished pen holder - barrel shaped

Woodturning: Learning from Mistakes

A project.  You know exactly what you want to make.  You go to the shop to do some awesome woodturning. For me, I had just looked at a project in Woodturning magazine from the UK. Stuart King turned a coin bank and painted it to resemble an antique money box that he found. I liked …

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The Productivity Project - Book Review

Book Review “The Productivity Project” by Chris Bailey

Well there certainly are these tasks in my life that ruin my productivity. How about yours? You know the ones that are there to be done and you don’t want to do them. These are the projects that make taking out the trash and doing the dishes seem like Disneyland. Okay I’m joking on that …

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How to Build Your Inventory

How to Build Your Inventory

When moving from hobby to business one of the hurdles is having enough inventory.  Each of us has projects that we find pleasure in turning.  However, these products may not be the ones that our customers like.  That is the challenge of the artisan; how to express the artistry and beauty of your work and …

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Design the Life You Love

Book Review “Design the Life you Love” by Ayse Birsel

Is your life simply happening while you watch? It can feel that way sometimes. You wake up in the morning and it’s the middle of February. How did you get here? Seriously, it feels like it is still early January. You go through the motions, one foot after the other, one day following another, one …

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Course Review: Craftsy Woodturning Basics Course

WOODTURNING BASICS: Seven Handy Kitchen Items Woodturning is fun. It is even more fun when you can make a turning that someone else likes to use. You get the pleasure of creating and the pleasure of seeing it in use. Everyone needs basic kitchen utensils like a rolling pin and a citrus juicer. These are …

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Goal Setting Looking to the Future

7 Benefits of Goal Setting for 2016 and Beyond

Goal Setting for 2016 Goals are a part of life.  Your business should have a business plan.  That is, what are the goals of your business?  Goals are not obstacles but are a reflection of where you want to go.  Here are 7 benefits of goal setting for 2016 and beyond. I’ve set many goals …

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Which Honey Dipper Shape is Best?

Once I had turned some honey dippers I started to see them all over the place. There were many variations on the simple theme of a honey dipper. The very simple versions were straight with 4 or 5 grooves. I enjoyed turning ones with a bit of a shape, sort of like a rain drop …

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Book Review: The Creative Woodturner

I am inspired by a quote from Pablo Picasso, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” In my woodturning I think I’m mostly at the “learn the rules” stage rather than being a creative woodturner. But every once in a while I try something different and am usually …

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Book Review “The One Thing”

Struggling with your business, fitting in wood turning, family pressures and the like? Want to know the secret to making it all work out? So did I. The One Thing, will give you the secret to finding that focus and creating a success in your life. What will this book do? It will help you …

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Welcome to the Turning For Profit Community! I'm Robin. Turning for Profit is about helping you find hope and joy in your woodturning hobby. It's about projects that fill your inventory and inspire your creativity. It's business help to get you set up and making a profit quickly. If you've always wanted to work from home playing with wood, let me help you realize your dream of Turning for Profit. Read More…

Help for Beginner Woodturners

Learn to use 5 different wood turning tools, with confidence, while you turn 7 projects, building your wood turning skills sequentially.  Includes tips and ideas for marketing your wood turning, when you are ready to move forward.


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You don’t have to be good to start.  You just have to START to be good. — Joe Sabah

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7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe

7 Gifts for Men Made on the Lathe
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Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast

Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast
Finished Niddy Noddy with yarn.

Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project

Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project
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