I had some free time yesterday and a Pecan log/limb that kept saying; Turn Me – Turn Me!
I guess this is what it wanted too be!

Finish; Wipe on Poly.
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Small turned Box with Lid.
This spalted Maple has some wonderful colors and patterns.
Don’t quite know what to do with it – Sugar, Honey, Candy, Stash box???
Any Ideas?

Sanded to 600 grit, Mineral oil and Beeswax

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I drew inspiration for this non-wilting flower from Harry's projects, he has made many, I have made One; and I was graciously given a length of wood, which I used a piece of for the-Tulip from another fellow Lumberjock. PASs- when we met at a craft show almost 2 years ago.
Species unknown; as you might know PASs has several Beautiful projects made from Dunnage, which this came from: I think he has since identified some of this stuff. —- Nice colors and nice to turn, maybe it came from one of those —Tulip tree?

Finished Tulip with a little Mineral oil & Beeswax- One coat of Poly wiped on the vase & twig just to clean it up.

Woods; Elm twig, Crape Myrtle, & Tulip tree??

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Recently I cut back a Crab-Apple tree in the back yard and finally started playing with some of the wood.
It has some very interesting Grain and turns very nicely.
Now I just may have too take the whole tree down!

Finished with some wipe on Poly.

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For this decorative board effect, I needed a stepping and yet repeatable stop on the tablesaw fence.
So I came up with this idea.

Dollars’ worth of Dimes,

Make a cut remove a dime, make a cut remove a dime and so on, till all your dimes are gone, then there are 8 full width pieces in the center of this board then it steps back down, add a dime make a cut and so on;
If you figured it out correctly your making your last cut when you have your dollar back on the fence!
(Depending on how long the initial glue-up is)

It’s Cheap, Effective, & Exacting.
I could have been even cheaper and done this with Ten Cents but I thought all those nice colored boards deserved a, little bit of Silver, plus I liked the thickness of a dime.

Here are lots more Photos of the build if you’re interested.

Dollars’ worth of Dimes
It measures 15-1/2” x 14” x 3/4”
Finished with Cutting Board conditioner & Beeswax.
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Here’s a couple accent lamps.
One of spalted Maple, the other (below) is a piece of recently cutback Crab-apple, had some nice colors.
Finished the Maple one with, Wipe on Poly,— Crab-apple finished with Mineral oil & Beeswax.

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Everyone is making these; I had to give it try.
I didn’t have a digital angle reader, so I drew a 60 degree angle with a protractor and cut it out, (last photo)
then used it to set table saw angle, worked great first time!
There are a few flaws but not bad for first attempt.
It’s not very big, 8” x 12” x 1” – next time I’ll go bigger!

Finish; Mineral oil & Beeswax.
Wood; Cherry, Maple, Black-walnut.

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Here are some more photos if you would like to look.
Tumbling Blocks Board

There are all kinds of scoops on here, I think Alongiron
and I May have came across the same article Elegant Coffee Scoops
These were turned on a face plate, Someday I will have a Chuck. Fun little project to practice some thin wall turning, great item for those Coffee Connoisseurs. They hold just over 2 tablespoons of your favorite Beans!
Woods: Teak, Mahogany, Black Walnut, Maple, Oak.—Finish: Mineral oil & Beeswax.

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She will never know the Love it took too hand sand that Router Burn out of there!

Cherry, Mineral Oil, & Beeswax.
Happy Valentines Day!

Made the first one of these for a Christmas swap, it was such a hit I had requests for more!

Woods are Black walnut, Holly, Purple heart & Cherry – wiped on some Cutting Board conditioner.
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This is very similar to the last board. But I added a few more layers.
I couldn’t come up with a name but there are 11-pieces in each row, and there are 30 separate rows, with 4-more pieces that make up the frame, thus #334

Woods- Cherry, Holly, Black walnut, & Purple-heart.
Measures 16” x 12-1/4” x 3/4”
Here are a few more images if you would like to take a look #334
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Decorative Cutting Board, woods- Cherry, Holly, Purple-heart, & Rosewood.
Measures 12” x 11-1/4” x 3/4” Finished with Butcher Block Conditioner.

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You can find more photos here Decorative Cutting Board.

I had two off-cuts from a glue-up that I made for a decorative cutting board that I am working on.
And I needed a gift for the Yankee-Swap at X-Mas party, so I thought I would put these end cuts to use.
Made from Holly, Cherry, Purpleheart, & Rosewood.
Finished with Cutting Board Conditioner.

The knife is strung with .018” Dia. Stainless Steel fishing line leader.
You can slip the wire of the knife over the handle of the board and hang both together
from hole when not in use.

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Bouncing around the web one day I found a somewhat incomplete drawing for these silly things. They Flip Upside-down when Spinning. So I re-drew it in Sketch Up to Scale, so I could pull-in some of the missing dimension.

Turned this out of Mahogany between centers. Broke two when I was nearly finished with them – I guess the third times a Charm. I kept thinking this would be much easier with a Chuck and a Drill Chuck on tail stock end. Someday! still Fun and a challenge to turn, for me anyhow!
Here’s a short Video even has Christmas music just by Chance.
Tippe Top

If any one wants the Drawing you can find it here, Tippe Top Album
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Happy Turning!!

This is for the Boy Scouts out there.
About 2yrs. ago I made 12 of these, Arrow of Light Awards for my sons Cub Scout Pack.
All Cub Scouts receive one of these when they become Boy Scouts.
Well now another Cub Scout Pack has come back and asked for another 8, making 14 just in case!
Made from Southern Pine, first stain very dark, then 3 coats of Poly, then Rout, re-trim, re-stain outside, re-seal arrow portion. Whew!!

It really is quite an Honor to make these for the Scouts, they work very hard to achieve this Award!

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One of my Neighbors took down this Silver Maple tree about a year ago.
It has some interesting grain. Wish I had a lot more of this. Fun to Turn!
All are finished with Wipe-On Poly, the bowl has Mineral Oil and Beeswax on inside.

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For my Daughter and Son in-laws Wedding, I made this Tree of Life Clock. Holly, Black Walnut, Ebony for the hands and Rosewood for hour marks.

Then Turned this Salad Bowl out of Teak.

Once it was turned on a face plate I realized that I needed to make a Long-worth Chuck.

When the bowl was done I decided they would need some spring open Tongs. Teak, Ebony.

These Tongs fold back on themselves for easy storage,
when flipped all the way around they are spring loaded.

I guess maybe this should be a 4 in 1 project.
I got to keep the Chuck!
More Clock Images here

Long Worth Chuck & Bowl Images here

I’ve seen a few of these on here lately.
My son actually made these about a year ago, with a little setup help.
He ended up selling some of them and one became a X-mas tree ornament with a little fishing line drilled thru one corner.

We made a short video of the process just thought we would throw it out there.
If you would like to look, here is link to—
Stephens Cube in a Cube in a Cube
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Square all equal sides is the key.
Made from: Teak, Danish wood oil.

Needed to get my wife’s printer off the floor.
I had an old piece of composite marble that came out of an end table, I was able to cut it down to fit this project.
Also I started with some beautiful rough sawn Mahogany

I had no way to plane this stuff, and I wanted to keep a piece of it, the full 15” width that it was for the bottom shelf. So I built this sled for Router that would ride on a couple stainless steel pipes that would lay nice and flat on bench on either side of work piece.

Do one side then flip and do the other.

Worked great!

Stained, then Rubbed in some more stain with some 600 grit – before assembly, I like to fill a little of the grain this way. Assembled all then just rubbed in several coats of paste wax.

My wife still needs to pick out a handle for cedar bottom drawer.
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More pictures at Google albums

Very Proud of my Son.
For X-mas he received a Pen Mandrel for our Lathe and a couple of pen kits.
Well between homework and Scouts he just recently got around to putting it to work.
These pens are made of Rosewood, Celtic Knot is Holly. Finished with paste wax.
At one point he stopped the Lathe, (smiling) he said, “this is so much Fun and exciting, I don’t have to think about anything else when I am doing this” 11 yrs old

He had this Celtic Knot pen sold before it was made!!

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