I love wood and wood grain. A wooden Icicle is a great way to showcase wood on a smaller scale. Small and delicate it shows off the wood and your skills as a turner. Wooden Icicles are easy to turn. I used only three tools, a roughing gouge, parting tool and a skew chisel. Utilizing …
Wooden Puzzles that are Quick to Make: The Tower of Hanoi
Wooden puzzles always attract lots of attention at craft fairs and shows. The Tower of Hanoi is easy to make with a rectangular base and turned discs as the pieces. Made from wood, the pieces and the base are attractive to our tactile and visual senses. This is a quick project and will give you …
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A Wood Turning Project: Honey Dipper
Inventory Project – Honey Dipper A Honey Dipper is a sweet and easy product to have in your inventory. They lift liquid honey out of jars and let you drizzle the honey into your tea or on your toast. With no extra hardware and no precision turning required, honey dippers are a great addition to …
Mini-Lathe – Wooden Top
Mini-Lathe – Wooden Top This project is turning a wooden top out of cherry wood. A quick project for my new mini-lathe using a one way chuck. For specific instruction on turning tops here’s an earlier post on Turning Toys – Wooden Tops. This project will see how the mini-lathe handles a heavy multi-jawed chuck …
A Wood Turning Project: Yarn Ball Winder
A wooden ball winder makes a great between centers turning project. Sometimes simple tools are the best and this tool is an easy turning project. Enjoy. A variety of wood turning projects keeps the turner busy and free from boredom. To try out my new mini-lathe, a wooden ball winder or nostepinne is a good …
Seed Starting Pot Maker
It’s seed starting time. You’ll want a few of these in your inventory for the farmer’s markets and craft shows. It’s used to turn pieces of newspaper into seed starting pots. Gardeners will love it. This easy to make seed starting pot form will help them save money and make good use of an item …
How to Turn a Canning Lid Lifter
Turn a Canning Lid Lifter Canning season is upon us. Here’s a quick wood turned solution to safely get those canning lids out of hot water. Turn a few extras and save them for the ladies at the farmer’s market who make jams, jellies, and pickled garlic during canning season. They make really good barter …
Turned tools for the Wood Turner
A great way to practice your turning skill is in producing tools for your workshop. This week we will look at several tools suitable for a wood turner and others. The videos show you how to turn a mallet, a hammer, a baseball bat, a garden dibble, tool handles, and a scratch awl. Enjoy …
Build your Inventory Fast: Turned Bowls
Every wood turner needs a collection of turned bowls in his inventory to prove his skills to the public. Bowls are easy sellers at craft fairs and galleries. They are useful, decorative, and can really showcase the creative skill of the turner. Bowls are also good practice pieces to warm-up at the lathe. At one …
Build Your Inventory Fast with these Quick Wood Turning Projects
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 …
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Turning Toys – Wooden Tops
This is a quick and easy project. A spinning top can be made from some of the smaller pieces of wood lying around the shop or from local wood. The top needs to be an inch in diameter, or larger, to have good inertia. The handle should be a narrow diameter so that it can …
