MiniLathe Bottle Stoppers

Today: Bottle Stoppers Tomorrow: The world!! For firsts they are very cute..they appear to be well crafted & finished well.. Keep fightin’ the good fight!

-- We call the destruction of replaceable human made items vandalism, while the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources is called development.

Very nice!
My favorite is on the left.
Thanks for posting

-- Safety first because someone needs you.

Nice job. I assume that they were all cut free hand. (No pattern to guide you)

That’s what makes them very unique.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Very nice, my favorite is the Plum.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Really Cool, Barbs!!

I really think the fruit wood theme is inspired. After all we have wines made from practically every fruit, why not a stopper- from their tree- as a match!

Lew

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Thanks everyone. The plum is from a root ball, and this is the only one I could get out of the wood because two other blanks were put on the mandrel and as I turned I kept running into big pockets of Dirt. They weren’t worth keeping. Loved all the color, but it was hard to get a usable piece out of it. Next time, I hope I can get trunk wood of a plum tree!

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

Thanks Autumn; when are you due home?
Lew, I hadn’t thought of it as ‘inspired.’ I live in fruitwood country, and use what is available to me. Good selling point though, huh?

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Those are nice barb, really like the first and last one.

-- RStadler

Hi Barb;

Beautiful turnings.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Yes they are beautiful turnings.

-- Janice

Thanks all. They’re such little things, but can be beautiful if the wood is good. That’s usually true of any work, isn’t it?

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

Well done Barb, I like the woods you have chosen. Keep them coming.

Thanks for sharing Barb.

-- When you know better you do better.

Great going, Barb. They look really nice, especially for firsts.
Each piece you do is bringing you another step closer to making the move to making some masterpieces on that big and beautiful new lathe.

O-o-o-o-o-o-o, Snoopy Happy Dance!

-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

Your work is inspiring me! Now I have to go find a source for fruitwood somewhere …

-- Susannah, Melbourne FL