Woodturning Olive Vase – What to Teach a Novice?
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For this project, I’m preparing for a fiend’s daughter to come have a first experience with woodturning.
This is a small 5″ vase from semi-dry olive wood finished with beeswax and mineral oil. A small glass insert protects the wood from moisture (somewhat).
What projects do you think are good for a teenage beginner?
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Do Not Let Your Spouse See This Woodturning Present
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My wife convinced me to purchase a SawStop table saw. I guess she wants me to keep all my fingers. My previous saw was a vintage Craftsman table saw. Years ago, I had purchased an Incra rip fence for it which has worked well. The saw’s mobile base had worn out and replaced with a wooden base with casters. The new base was longer to also support the Incra fence support which had repeatedly bent.
Wanting to keep the Incra fence instead of the expensive SawStop rip fences, I decided to swap the saws but keep everything else.
One major item was the extension tables on the SawStop. The Craftsman extension tables were reinforced and solid. The SawStop extension tables are flimsy without their rip fence rails. This problem was solved with wood pieces that bolt to the Incra fence rails and the extension fences.
The other big deal is the miter gauge slots that are both further away from the blade on the new SawStop. I rely on a cross cut sled to safely and accurately make cross cuts. I have to move the strips or remake the sled.
I trust these are good decisions that will serve me for years to come.
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Woodturning Candy Cane Tree Hanger – A Sweeter Ornament
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One of these Christmas ornaments is simple and quick. However, when given to children, there has to be enough to go around. That is the complication!
Each is about 2 inches long and about 5/8 inch diameter. A 3/8 inch hole holds the sweeter part – the candy case. Lacquer was my preferred finish for these. The is a variety of pen blanks from a “Tropical Hardwood” bundle.
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Christmas Ornament Challenge – 2018 Results
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Results are complete for the 2018 Christmas Ornament Challenge.
Finalists are:
# Maker Title
2 Eli Polite Expert Impossible
69 Pedro Trinidad Novice Tres Reyes Magos
9 Jim Beckwith Confident Carved Cherry Sea Urchin Ornament
68 Gene Dellinger Novice Pierced Hollow-Form with LED Candle
5 Mauro Migone Confident Hollow Sphere Ornament
44 Larry Lemon Expert 16″ Nutcracker
20 Grant Christiansen Confident Nativity Ornament
29 Seth Miller Novice Ohio State Permanent
32 Bert Delisle Confident Nativity scene
15 Martin Young Confident 3 Stripes
19 Rick Morris Confident Bowl, with Christmas Trees
33 Darryl Jones Expert Colored Pencil Ornament with Dyed Maple Finial
38 Rod Jewell Confident Fire of the Spirit
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Woodturning Simple Quick Ornament From Scrap
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This Christmas ornament is simple and quick. It is made from leftovers and a tropical pen blank. The round pieces are padauk. The disk is ash. It is finished with shellac friction polish. It is about 2.5″ by 4.5″.
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Christmas Ornament Challenge – Viewer Review
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Here are the ornaments in the 2018 Christmas Ornament Challenge.
This is the opportunity for viewers to pick their favorites. Please express your favorites in high to low order separated by commas such as 1,2,3,4,5. For voting purposed, it will be easier for us if you vote via YouTube. But if you cannot on YouTube, please vote via a comment to this post.
Enter your picks in a single comment by December 11, 2018. Multiple comments from the same person will not be tabulated.
We’ll announce the winners in another video.
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Live Center Options For Woodturning
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I appreciate my OneWay live center. It is well made and a good design. The design enable me to tap other items to enhance its capabilities.
In this video, I make a finial steady that mounts to the live center and keeps thin finials from breaking while I’m turning them.
I also show how to drill out a #6 rubber stopper. I use a rubber stopper whenever I need pressure from the live center but do not want the wood to be marred.
I use a standard 3/4″ 10 tpi tap from a industrial supply company.
The #6 rubber stopper came from Amazon.
Similar live centers are offered by: (may have different threads)
- OneWay
- Penn State
- Robust
- Easy Wood Tools
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Woodturning Segmented Thanksgiving Cornucopia
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I’ve been planning the cornucopia for over a year, letting the design evolve until I could take it on. It is a long project because I wanted it large enough to be able to put fruits inside.
This cornucopia is 10 inches in diameter at the largest ring and about 20 inches long. The wood is mostly oak with one ring of cherry. With 22 rings of 12 segments each, it has 285 pieces including the veneer added to strengthen the rings. The finish is walnut oil. Rings are held together with 22 gauge copper wire. Small coconut shell beads stretch one side to bend.
The Christmas Ornament Challenge entry is open. Get yours in during the month of November 2018. All crafts are invited. No video required. See http://www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges for rules and entry procedures.
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Woodturning Planetary Ornament – Insert Fun
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This one is my daughter’s favorite ornament of all my recent ornaments. It used a piece of scrap walnut and other left over thin wood strips to create random angle slices in the body. This I call my “Saturn” style.
For this ornament, it is important to drill a center hole entirely through the ornament. Then insert a dowel in the hole to keep the pieces aligned when gluing. Unfortunately, then the dowel has to be drilled out again after each slice is glued to align the next cut. With the final slice, I still drill out the center to hold the finials in place.
The woods are walnut, maple, honey locust, oak and padauk finished with shellac friction polish.
The Christmas Ornament Challenge entry is open. Get yours in during the month of November 2018. All crafts are invited. No video required. See http://www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges for rules and entry procedures.
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Segmented Woodturning – Not A Plain Christmas Ornament
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What do you do with leftover wood? How about when you worked a lot to make a laminated blank?
In this case I had to make additional segmented rings to have enough for the globe of the ornament.
It is traditional when describing a segmented piece to describe the number of segments. In this case, there are eight main rings but the piece count varies with each ring. Did I handle each piece individually? No. But I still count them individually.
Counting all the pieces, this ornament has 147 pieces of wood, Oak, cherry, yellowheart,maple, walnut, and a tropical hardwood. It is about 3 inches in diameter and 8 inches in height, finished with shellac friction polish.
The Christmas Ornament Challenge entry is open. Get yours in during the month of November 2018. All crafts are invited. No video required. See http://www.AsWoodTurns.com/Challenges for rules and entry procedures.
Enjoy!