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A Wood Turning Project: Rolling Pin

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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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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Shawl Pins A Turning Project

Shawl Pins: A Turning Project

Wooden shawl pins are a beautiful accessory to handmade shawls. You use the ring and the pin to interlock the overlapping section of the shawl. This keeps the shawl in place and the wearer is not only warm but can show off your turning work as well. Two sizes of shawl pins are turned in …

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Needle Case A Turning Project

Needle Case: A Turned Fiber Project

A needle case is a small container to hold needles in. Making the case out of wood protects the needles, won’t get broken like plastic, is nice to look at, and lets you show off your turning skills. Not bad for one little project. A needle case is a great accessory for anyone working with …

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Sett Gauge A turning project for fiber artists

Sett Gauge: A Turning Project

Sett Gauges – A Turned Fiber Tool This is a little turned tool that fibre artists love.  A wooden sett gauge 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. What is a Sett Gauge A sett gauge helps …

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Mothers Day Gifts - Heart Shaped Vase

Heart Vase: A Turning Project

Heart Vase: A Turning Project A heart vase makes a great gift for Valentine’s Day. The trick to this vase is the heart shape turned on a thinner piece of wood. Because you do not turn the entire blank round you have the indentation for the heart at the top of the vase. To emphasize …

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Bird Feeders – Turning Project Part II

Bird Feeders – Turning Project Part II This is the second part on how to turn bird feeders. Part I showed you how to turn the central dowel that will support the two bowls. Part II is about turning the feed bowl and cover bowl to complete the bird feeder. Put the two together and …

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Bird Feeders finished and ready to go

Bird Feeders – Turning Project Part I

Bird Feeders – Turning Project Part I Bird feeders are a great way to watch birds. They can be simple or fancy and made out of many different materials. This turned bird feeder is made out of three wooden parts that fit together to allow the smaller birds access to the food while keeping the …

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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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Garden Ornaments: A Mushroom Box

Mushroom Box – A Turned Garden Ornament Turned mushrooms make great garden ornaments.  You can turn them in a variety of shapes and sizes.  These mushrooms are perfect compliments to a garden gnome or a water feature.  Made out of wood they are not harmful to the environment and no one is likely to eat …

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Gardening Row Markers

Gardening Tools: Row Markers – A Turned Garden Implement Turned gardening tools combines two great hobbies: turning and gardening.  Row markers can be turned and they will make laying out your garden a breeze. It seems so simple. Mark a row in your garden to plant the seeds in. If the row is longer than …

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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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