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 …
A Wood Turning Project: Baby Rattle
I’m not sure which is more amusing. Watching a baby with a rattle or an adult trying to figure out how the rings were put on the rattle in the first place. Captive rings are a woodturning trick and I use captive rings on this baby rattle. Wooden Baby Rattle with Captive Rings Wooden toys, …
Wooden Bowl – Larch
From the woodpile 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 cookstove in our kitchen. Weekly chores include splitting enough wood and hauling it to the house for the week. Usually, all I want …
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 …
7 Gifts for Mom Made on the Lathe
Most mothers I know love getting presents, cards, and calls on Mother’s day. Their favorite kinds are those made by their children. If you haven’t given your Mom a Mother’s Day gift in a few years now is the time to turn over a new leaf and make her a present. These presents range from …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
