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 …
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 …
Turning for the Garden: A Garden Dibbler
Garden Dibbler – A Turned Garden Implement What can measure the correct depth to plant and how far apart to space the seeds? A turned garden dibbler can. This tool is designed to measure the correct depth for seeds, make a hole for transplanting, and can measure the distance between plantings. While one tool can …
Woodturning Projects: Christmas Trees
Christmas Trees – A Turned Christmas Ornament & Decoration It feels ironic to select a piece of wood, from a tree, and turn a tree out of it. We can’t exactly move the firs and cedars into our house, so these decorations are a great alternative. Christmas trees are good woodturning projects especially for new …
Wooden Utensils: Spurtles
Wooden utensils have been around for ever. They are easy to make and great in the kitchen. Wood is super in the kitchen and won’t scratch those non-stick pots or pans. A spurtle is the Scottish name for a stick to stir porridge. Why Spurtle? I haven’t a clue, but it’s what I’ve always called …
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 …
How to Choose a Mini Lathe
I’m going to purchase a mini lathe. During the winter months the shop is way too cold and it would take forever to warm up even standing 6 feet from the wood stove. A mini lathe would let me turn pens, small spindle turnings, bird houses, Christmas ornaments, small bowls, and lidded boxes. The larger …
