Turned wood box with lid

Turned a little box using ambrosia maple. Finished it with hemp oil. All turned from one piece of wood. Also inlayed a small button of abalone shell in top of knob on lid.

Pen Project with Cross Clip for Church

I just finished doing a project for a church. The church was expanding and had to cut down a Maple tree. They contacted me and wanted me to make 200 pens for them.

I used a slimline kit for the base. I added a fancy center band and a cross clip from Woodcraft.

I made a sample and we agreed on a price, the church shipped the wood to me. It arrived on a banded pallet, which consisted mainly of cut up logs. I had to take the logs and cut the logs into pen blanks.

As you can see from the picture at the right, the shipment basically looked like a load of fire wood. Some of the logs were pretty big. I split the logs and then used my band saw to cut the wood into rough pen blanks.

The rough pen blanks were dried by stacking them and air drying along with the use of a micro wave oven to air dry the blanks.

Once the blanks were dry, there were cut, drilled and turned to shape. There were sanded and finished with a protective coating.

The pens were assembled and packed in plastic pen cases and shipped to the church.

The church was very please upon receipt of the pens. There was a lot of work involved in making 200 pens at one time but I enjoyed the project.

If you have a project you would like made from a special piece of wood or any custom project, please contact me.

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Mini lathe project, Garden Dibble

GARDEN DIBBLE

This is an easy spindle turning project. A dibble is a tool used by a gardener to make holes to plant seeds, bulbs or small plants. I started with a pieces of white oak. You could use maple, ash or any hardwood.

I started with a piece of wood 1 1/2" square and 12" long. I used a roughing gouge to get the piece round.

I them used my skew to finish the project. I turned 1" knob on the end, then a 4" handle. The pointed end is marked at 1" intervals to show how deep you are making the hole.

This one can make up to a 4" deep hole. One I completed the turning, I used sand paper to smooth out the project, them completed it with a couple of coats of wipe on poly.

This is a quick easy project, any gardener would love.

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