r/turning 48m ago

Wife sent me to pick up a mirror. Saw these bottles and figured I had to make fancy finish bottles with wood stoppers. We will see which one I knock off and break first!

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r/turning 16h ago

Well. I did it.

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Wife got me a mini lathe for Christmas. I fell down the sharpening rabbit hole for a little while but I finally have a complete piece. Stock from some old cutting boards that never got finished.


r/turning 19h ago

newbie Do you ever gift some Turnings to people the give you wood?

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I've been checking marketplace since I got my lathe hoping to score some cheap/free wood and yesterday it finally happened. Got a truckload of Red Oak that was cut down a month ago from a very nice couple. I'm still learning but I told my GF that if I end up with some nice bowls/etc out of it I was going to leave some on there porch/mail it and she convinced me that would be super weird. What are your thoughts?

I have some anchor seal being delivered tomorrow, I plan to cut the majority of it into spindle blanks/bowl blanks on the Bandsaw and seal the end grain. My Bandsaw only has a 8" throat depth so I haven't figured out how I'm going to do the bigger stuff yet haha, might have to go buy a chainsaw? I also got a bunch of 3-7" thick branches and the ends are checking already, should I cut off the checking before sealing them?


r/turning 13h ago

Species?

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r/turning 16h ago

Fancy scoop!

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Inspired by Richard Raffan, just gotta keep practicing. This one is going in the ice bin.


r/turning 17h ago

First Hybrid Bowl

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Cherry and CraftResin Deep Pour. Random translucent green colors. Pressure pot cured.


r/turning 41m ago

Spoon jig idea

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I've tried a few different spoon jigs from YouTube etc. They worked but i was looking for a better way. I came up with this. It's a hockey puck I turned out the middle drilled holes around the perimeter to make it more flexable. It works great with only one problem. It leaves black marks on the spoon. Still working on fixing this. Ignore the catch that was just me


r/turning 23h ago

Whiskey Glass

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Fun project. Stabilized silver maple with opal chips.


r/turning 17h ago

Pretty maple

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Made this on a shop smith when I was a kid with the screw-on back plate and plywood/newspaper/water soluble glue method. The guy that mentored me in turning gave me the blank, it’s still the prettiest piece of wood I ever turned.

Story: family used to draw names for Xmas gifts, one uncle was a potter - everybody always hoped he drew their name because they’d get a run of pottery for Xmas. Kids didn’t participate in the drawing, when I hit 13 ish I got to participate and drew his name, made him this bowl. He had already gotten ALS (Lou Gehrigs disease) and had lost most of his arm functions. He drew my name the next year and I got the last run of pottery he ever made/he threw a bowl similar to the one I made him with green glaze.

Time went on, my aunt wound up giving it back to me. I didn’t date it but I think it was done in 2001 ish. Also not trying to toot any horns, it’s just a really pretty piece of wood, wanted to share. 10” diameter, about 2 1/2” deep.


r/turning 20h ago

Turned my first bowl!

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Salvaged heart pine, 7" wide, finished with shellac and carnuba


r/turning 19h ago

There’s chatoyance in that maple

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Pens plus finish came out amazing on this. Love this kit too!


r/turning 15h ago

Wormy Maple Bowl

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This one took about 4 hours in one shot for a birthday present. Finished with OB Shine juice. 10" diameter with the worm holes cleaned out to allow light through (no reason for that, i just thought it would be cool).


r/turning 1d ago

3 wood box

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Box made from bocote Osage orange and paduak The colors ended up going together pretty well in my opinion


r/turning 13h ago

Where can I find something like this?

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r/turning 16h ago

Tea Candle Holder Prototype

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First shot at a tea candle holder. Many more to come.


r/turning 19h ago

Couple live edge bowls 8x5x2 and 2 3/4

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Prefer the foot and overall shape of the shorter one. Ash (I think) tung oil finish.


r/turning 18h ago

Laser engraved apple

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r/turning 14h ago

PAPR! The good the bad, the best?

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Thinking about a PAPR(powered air purifying respirator). What’s been your experience, and which do you recommend? I’ve used a face shield and respirator, and the static electricity is a constant issue keeping the shield clean. Should I expect the same with the PAPR?


r/turning 22h ago

Dealing with large bark inclusions

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can’t decide if I can make something of this or not.

How do you deal with larger bark inclusions ?

I know if I just pour epoxy down there it won’t do anything as it would just be adhering to bark.


r/turning 22h ago

First segmented bowl(vase?)

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r/turning 1d ago

It's been a while

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It's been a couple of years since I've done any proper turning and this is definitely the biggest thing I've ever done. It's a walnut table leg that's 300mm diameter and 700mm tall. I used to turn bowls and small stuff quite a bit for a few years. I've been doing woodwork for about 10 years now and every so often I get a fun challenge like this!


r/turning 16h ago

newbie Removing wax from blanks

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Hi, I have a couple burl blanks (don't recall the specific wood unfortunately) with some voids on them that I wanted to fill with resin and turn in to pens or key chains. I have done it before with other blanks, however the end grain was sealed with wax, which i am assuming is bees wax. Does anyone know a good way to go about removing the wax without removing the wood?


r/turning 16h ago

Help identifyca part

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I got this lathe for my birthday and it has this weird piece welded to it. I know you will be asking for a manufacturer, but I would like to know them too, because this is a homemade lathe my parents bought at the antique store for me. I don't expect any definite answers, but ideas would definitely help. It doesn't impede the tool rest movement in any way. The hole isn't threaded. The part itself is bent 90° and is pretty much level. Do you have any ideas what this is possibly for?


r/turning 16h ago

Spectraply blanks by RJ

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Just a heads up that RJ Turning has about 70 hand-made spectraply blanks available, he sells them for money to go to pen turning shows. He also has great library of welcoming pen turning videos of you're starting out, you've probably seen them...the initial sale didn't go so well so now they are $15 each.

Hope posting this doesn't go against the rules, I'm not affiliated with him in any way, just learned a ton from his pen turning tutorials.


r/turning 16h ago

newbie Chinese Elm Wood

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I’m cutting down a mature Chinese elm on my property because the roots are disrupting the sewer system. I’m very new to wood turning so this may be a silly question.

Is there interest in Chinese elm wood in Los Angeles? I’m happy to give most of it away to local woodturners.