It is often harder to select gifts for men, but I’ve come up with a few ideas. For me buying for Dad was a lot harder than buying for Mom. But everyone likes to get handmade gifts. You can turn a project specifically for them and that will make your gift very special. 7 Gifts …
Christmas Ornaments: Build Your Inventory Fast
Sometimes it is the right time of year for certain turning projects. September and October seem to fit for Christmas Ornaments. Its that time of year. Early fall, the children are back in school, and you’re still working at harvesting the garden. It might be a bit early to think about your personal Christmas, but …
Niddy Noddy – A Woodturning Project
This is a tool for fiber artists who want to make skeins of yarn. The name “Niddy Noddy” comes from the motion needed to wrap the yarn into skeins. It is made of a central bar and two smaller bars on the end. Each skein winder has its own length of yarn that you wrap. …
Turning Blanks from your Table Saw
Getting wood to turn on you lathe can be a challenge. However the off cuts from a building site have great potential as practice turning blanks. Off cuts of commercial 2 x4s make good turning blanks for beginners. The wood is usually fir, spruce, or pine. These are soft woods rather than hard woods. The …
Wood Trivet – A kitchen turning project
Turning a wood kitchen trivet is a great project to practice your bowl turning skills. You make the face of the trivet flat and shape the profile of the edge to suit your project. The end result is a wooden trivet you can be proud of. Kitchen trivets are used to protect surfaces from pots …
5 Pricing Mistakes that Cost You More than Just Money
Pricing your woodturnings is a real challenge because pricing mistakes not only cost you money but they affect the character and nature of your woodturning business as well. Here are 5 pricing mistakes to avoid when presenting your products for sale. One of the most common problems I hear from new woodturners is that they …
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Cup Holder Extension
Turning a cup holder extension I have an awesome coffee cup. It keeps the coffee hot for a long time. But it does not fit into the cup holder in my car. In order to solve the problem of not being able to use an extra-large coffee cup in my car’s cup holder, I had …
Woodturning Shop Notes
Shop notes are an often neglected tool of the woodturner. Planning your project helps you avoid mistakes and reduces your turning time. Keeping shop notes is easy with this template. Add them to your toolbox today. I can recall several occasions where I had turned a wonderful project. One was a seed pot maker and …
Turn a Mexican Train Dominoes Hub Even If You Are a Beginner
Turn a Mexican Train Dominoes hub and make dominoes more fun. This wood turned domino train station is a little challenging because it involves some refinement after the lathe. You’ll need some face-plate turning experience for this project, but it’s suitable for the advanced beginner. I played dominoes when I was a child. I don’t …
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