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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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Roughing Gouge – Turning Technique

The roughing gouge is used to turn your rough wood down to round.  The profile and shape on the gouge are suited to taking wood off of a spindle.  This is usually the first tool you use on a project.  It is long and heavy so that you can handle the torque generated by taking …

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Woodturning Workshop II – Tips and Tricks

This is my second woodturning workshop.  My first woodturning workshop is described here: Woodturning Workshops I – A great way to learn.  I spent three days at Lee Valley Tools in Kelowna in October of 2016, taking woodturning workshops.  I have been turning for around 20 years.  The school of hard knocks was my first …

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Woodturning Workshops Part I

Woodturning Workshops I – A great way to learn

Things I learned by attending woodturning workshops. I spent three days at Lee Valley Tools in Kelowna in October of 2016, taking woodturning workshops.  I have been turning for around 20 years.  The school of hard knocks was my first teacher.  Then I went and read books and watched some online videos.  A DVD on …

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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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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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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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A turned Kraut Pounder is used to make sauerkraut. To make sauerkraut properly youpound the cabbage with salt, in its container, and release its juices.

Kraut Pounder – A Woodturning Project

Coming from the old world a Kraut Pounder was used to make sauerkraut.  This is basically fermented cabbage.  To make it properly you need to pound the cabbage in its container and release its juices.  While there are many ways to achieve this, a turned wooden kraut pounder makes the job a lot easier. Wood …

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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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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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