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Round Wood Projects

"Round wood" is the term used for projects created on the lathe.
For anyone not familiar with what a lathe is, it is basically a machine used to spin material,
in my case, it spins wood and other soft materials such as the acrylics used for making pens.

Here are a few of my Round Wood Projects:

--------------------------- Easter Eggs ---------------------------

Every year at Easter I make a batch of eggs to hand out to the immediate family.
Unfortunately however, I don't always remember to take photo's. Here are some when I did.


Spalded Maple Eggs	Painted Eggs	Chakte Kok & Zebrawood	Black Palm Eggs

Spalded Maple egg cups	Chakte Kok close-up	Zebrawood close-up	Black Palm egg close-up

Acrylic egg on stand	Hidden Egg-1	Hidden Egg-2	Hidden Egg-3

--------------------- Christmas Tree Ornaments ---------------------

Just like Easter, I like to make Christmas ornaments for everyone in our immediate family (I've had others ask, but it just got to be too many so I finally had to start saying no). We give the ornaments out at the end of Thanksgiving dinner so they can display them on their tree during the current holiday season. I also try to make a homemade Christmas gift for each of the families, so that means I have to start on the tree ornaments very early so I have time to get everything finished. Depending on the complexity of the projects, sometimes I'll have to start as early as late September!


Globe	Globe group	Globe group	Icicles

Inside / Outside (2008)	Inside / Outside Display	Black Walnut Angels (2013)	Angel Display

)Bird House (2015)	Bird House Display	Mahogany Bells (2016	Bell Display

Multi-turned Globe (2017)	Multi-turned Globe Display	Inside-out Jingle Bell (2018)	Inside-out Jingle Bell Display

Split-turn Coaster (2019)	Split-turn Coaster Display	Split-turn Peppermint (2020)	Split-turn Peppermint Display

Multi-axis Pickle (2021)	Multi-axis Pickle Display	Captive Ring (2022)	Captive Ring Display

	Gnome (2023)	Gnome Display

------------------- Other Christmas Ornaments -------------------


White table Angels	White Angel wing closeup	Turned wings & halo Angels	Angel close-up front

Angel close-up back			Ornament Display Rack

------------------- Turned Bowls and Platters -------------------


Oak & Ash Segmented Bowl approx 4" dia x 4" tall	Spalded Maple Bowl approx 5" dia x 3" tall	Spalded Maple with Bark & Bow-tie	approx 9" dia x 4" tall

Winged Bowl in Locust	approx 8" x 5" x 5"	Oak Bowl with Pins Black Dye with Liming Wax	approx 7" dia x 3" tall

White Ash Bowl with Live Edge - approx 11" x 9" x 5"

------------------- Miscellaneous Turned Items -------------------


Spalded Maple Salt & Pepper Set	Offset Turning approx 1.75" dia x 3" tall	Rude Oslonick Candlesticks	Whistle / dyed maple

Baby Rattle - Maple	Baby Rattle - Mahogany/Maple	Baby Rattle - Maple/Redheart	Spinning Tops

Musket Tompions
This was an unusual project! One of brothers is in a colonial re-enactment group, and during a visit he showed me an old tompion and ask if I thought I could make them. Always up for a challenge, I said SURE! During my research I found that most tompions were homemade, so their wasn't a specific shape. Since I had to make quite few (4 DOZEN!), I selected a shape that was fairly easy to replicate in batches. The turning was the easy part. The notches were the challenge. They had to be cut after the tompions were turned. And since I had to cut so many, I made a jig to hold them safely during the cuts. They have two cuts, at 90 degrees, so I also had to come up with a way to register the first cut so the second cut was at 90 degrees. I made three different caliber sizes: 75, 69, and 62. I cut the slots in the 75 and 69 caliber on the table saw with a thin-kerf blade, but I wanted thinner slots in the 62 caliber. So I cut those on the bandsaw using a 3/4" resaw blade. The blades natural drift made the slots just slightly thinner than the thin-kerf bandsaw blade.

Also be sure to check out my turned writing instruments:
Ball-points, Roller-balls, Sketch Pencils, and Custom Fountain Pens.