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Woodturner Shop Safety

9 Shop Safety Tips for Woodturners

Wood turning involves spinning wood and sharp tools.  Spinning wood can lead to dangers and injury.  But following some simple shop safety tips you can avoid common injuries associated with wood turning.  Let’s start by looking at your woodturner shop. Did you notice that I said “your shop” and not mine?  There’s a reason for …

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Finding Birch for Woodturning Projects

Finding Birch for Woodturning Projects For the Local Market

Birch is an excellent wood for turning because it’s close grained and finishes well.  I like to use local wood whenever possible in my woodturning and since our ranch is 140 acres of forest, it seems natural to harvest our own wood for turning.  Mostly I look for wind-downed trees for turning.  While I’ve seen …

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Setting up your lathe to secure your wood

How to secure wood to your lathe

In order to turn wood on a lathe you have to secure the wood to the lathe.  For spindle turning the wood is held between the head stock and the tail stock.  For bowl turning I will show you how to mount a bowl blank with a face plate.  These two methods lets the lathe …

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Face plate on turning blank

5 Steps to Prepare Rough Wood for Turning

A very common question is where do I find wood for turning.  The next challenge is, once you have collected some wood, boards, or branches, how do you get the rough wood onto your lathe?  The key to successful woodturning is preparing the wood to turn, then securing that wood on the lathe so that …

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Prepare Your Shop - turning tools

5 Tips to Prepare Your Shop for Action

As I write this we are on the cusp of 2017.  A New Year and a new season for turning.  To help you get things together for the New Year, and anytime you need inspiration, here are 5 steps or tips you can take to prepare your shop for action. Preparation Get yourself lots of …

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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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Health Challenges

Five Common Turning Woods and Their Health Challenges

When we turn wood we recognize the differences between hard wood and soft wood.  This has an impact on how we use our tools and what we will turn from the wood.  Wood also has other properties that are important as well.  This article looks at health challenges that can arise even from the most …

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Wood Lathe Pulley Tip

Mini Lathe Tip: Changing Pulleys

  Playing with my new mini wood lathe has been fun.  You do have to change the pulley frequently as you go from roughing to shaping to sanding your project.  As I was informed in the product reviews there was a process to changing the pulley on the Excelsior Mini Wood Lathe.  Removing and replacing …

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A Wood Turning Lathe

Wood Turning Safety Tips

Safety Tips to Increase the Safety of your Turning Wood turning involves spinning wood and sharp tools.  Spinning wood can lead to dangers and injury.  But observing some simple rules can help you avoid common injuries associated with wood turning. I wanted to introduce this blog with an exciting do what I say not what …

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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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