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 …
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. …
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 …
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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Turned Wooden Christmas Bell
Bells are a traditional Christmas ornament. They are part of the Christmas narrative. Jingle bells, sleigh bells, silver bells, I think you get the idea. A turned wooden Christmas bell will be a lovely ornament on the tree. A bell shape is fairly straight forward and a quick search through my Pinterest board, featurning 100+ …
Turned Wooden Snowman
It is December and there is snow on the ground. Do you remember trying to make your first snowman? I can recall thinking the snow was perfect and running out to make a snowman. Then as I rolled the snowball and accumulated snow all of the leaves that hadn’t been raked were sticking to the …
Muddler – A woodturning project
Woodturning projects can have funny names. You can turn a garden dibbler, a spile, or a spurtle. Now you can turn a muddler. What is a muddler? It is used for muddling the flavors of fruits and herbs in alcohol and is a straight forward woodturning project. Design Considerations for a Muddler The purpose of …
