Wood Turning

Spiral turned pepper mill

This is a pepper mill made from an old table lag of walnut. I used a Laguna tools Pinnacle Lathe with a spiral turning attachment. I show the whole process edited down to 9:30. This is not my first pepper mill but is the first with a spiral. I recommend using a forstner bit with extension for hollowing but I did not have one long enough.

Submitted by: John Shorba

tippe top and top rink

I’ve been making some tops, and I learned about tippe tops. Alan at “As Wood Turns” has a nice video, but his top didn’t work!! This one does. Very cool, I’d say.

Submitted by: Dan Moerman

Shaving set

A shaving set I turned as a gift to one of my good friends from his wife, it was my first try at this and I thought it turned out pretty good

Submitted by: Patrick Mathis

beehive bottlestopper

Hi Carl-Greetings from Massachusetts.

I really enjoy your website and videos. I’ve been turning, on a very limited basis, for a couple of years. I don’t get as much time in the shop as I’d like. I am essentially self-trained, though I have taken a couple of classes at the local Woodcraft store.

Your videos really make me think a lot about my turnings, and give me ideas about things I’d like to try. A couple of years back, I bought the Ruth Niles bottle stopper kit, and have made a few. I’m attaching a photo of one of the better ones I turned…I call it a “beehive stopper”, for obvious reasons. It’s made from Maple, from a scrap I got at the Home Depot.

After watching a few of your older videos, I invested in a couple of bowl gouges and am taking a bowl turning class at the end of the month at Woodcraft. I’m looking forward to moving beyond pens and stoppers. If things go well, I’ll send a photo of my first bowl.

Keep up the great work on the videos.

Eric

Submitted by: Eric Weinstein

Turned Honey Dippers

Just starting out wood turning. I love honey and what better thing to practice turning than honey dippers.

From left to right:
Mahogany and Purpleheart
Mahogany
Walnut
Maple
Lemonwood (degame)

Enjoy!
Cactus Chris
From the Cactus Makeshop

Submitted by: Chris P

Coffee Bean Bottle Stopper

Coffee beans cast in white epoxy and then turned on the lathe into a bottle stopper. It turned out real well, especially considering that this was my first bottle stopper I have ever turned. Thanks.

Submitted by: Mitchell Longwill