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Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast

Its that time of year.  Early fall, the children are back in school, and you’re still working at harvesting the garden.  Way too early to think about Christmas, but it is the right time for some quick wood turning production work.  That’s right, getting ready for the Christmas Fairs in November and early December.  Turn …

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Olive Wood, honey dipper, pen blanks, and olive platters

Olive Wood for Your Turning Projects

Olive Wood is a fruit wood with lovely grain patterns. It is a hard wood which requires sharp tools and it will take a great finish as well. There is a fruity odor as you are turning it. Normally you turn smaller projects with olive wood rather than large bowls. It is fun to try …

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Jar Lid - A cup of coffee and a lid on the sugar jar.

Jar Lid: A Woodturning Project

Mason jars and mason jar memorabilia are all over the place.  I know of one restaurant that serves its water in mason jars.  (It used to be only rednecks that did that.)  You can get mason jar shaped measuring cups, mason jar shaped cookie cutters, mason jar measuring spoons, and mason jar salt and pepper …

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tea light holder, the finished candle holder with 4 lit candles

Tea Light Holder: A Woodturning Project

I liked turning the first two tea light candle holder projects.  The simplicity of turning a holder out of a branch while leaving some natural bark is very attractive.  The second tea light project was making an upside down bowl for the tea light holder.  In looking at the upside down bowl I wondered about …

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A single tea light holder made out of an upside down bowl.

Tea Light – A Woodturning Project

This second tea light holder project, is an upside down bowl.  It is easy to turn because you use the hole for the tea light to enable you to hollow out the bowl.  The outside of a bowl is usually quite easy to turn and to make smooth and shiny.  For beginning turners the inside …

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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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Woodturning – How to use a Captive Ring Tool

A captive ring tool is used by turners to create a captive wooden ring that is decorative and / or functional on a turning, and is a puzzle to those who don’t know how it is created. A Captive Ring Tool I have turned Captive rings on numerous spindle turnings which include Honey dippers, crochet …

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Wooden Bowl – Larch

From the wood pile to the dining room, making a turned wooden bowl from larch. A Woodturning Adventure Firewood!  This is what keeps us warm in the winter.  We have a lovely wood fired cook stove in our kitchen.  Weekly chores include splitting enough wood and hauling it to the house for the week.  Usually …

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Woodturning - Add a burn line

Woodturning – Add a burn line

How to add a burn line to your woodturning. Adding a burn line from a wire can accent a turning with a nice touch.  A burn line can emphasize the rim of a goblet or vase.  You can use them to differentiate sizes of crochet hooks or different tatting bobbins.  They can focus your attention …

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Sanding Your Wood Turnings

Sanding your turnings can be a chore or an element that sets your turning apart from the ordinary.  As I have focused on achieving a smoother finish my turnings look and feel that much better.  Sanding is a process that most turnings should go through. Sand Paper and Sanding in General Sand paper or glass …

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Rolling Pin: A Woodturning Project

Wood makes beautiful utensils for the kitchen.  They are lovely to look at, to hold, and to use.  Made out of a hardwood, the rolling pin will be both beautiful and useful.  These rolling pins are a French style of rolling pin where you use the pin by rolling it with your hands rather than …

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Coin Bank: A Woodturning Project

You need a place to save your extra change. Whether it is for a night on the town, exotic wood to turn, or for more woodturning tools, you need a coin bank. If you are saving for your turning projects then let’s get busy and turn a coin bank to help you save. The inspiration …

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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…

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

Before you start teaching woodturning to children ask yourself 3 important questions

Teaching woodturning to children – 3 preliminary questions

Teaching woodturning to children – 3 preliminary questions
A muddler to mix the fruit and herbs in your cocktails

Muddler – A woodturning project

Muddler – A woodturning project
Parting tool is versatile

Parting Tool – More versatile than you thought

Parting Tool – More versatile than you thought
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