Quick Guide: 6 Basic Woodturning Tools
What you need to know to get started with woodturning tools, tips, and techniques. Learn about basic tools you’ll need and how to use them.
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Lathe-Turned Cryptex Keeps Your Secrets Safe
Watch Carl Jacobson make a five letter solid maple cryptex on his lathe. This piece is functional and can be made to open with any code.
You Don’t Have to Like Dolls to Enjoy This Kokeshi Doll-Making Video
Yasuo Okazaki is an amazing woodworker that makes naruko kokeshi dolls, which he hypnotizingly shapes and paints while they spin on a lathe.
Maker Loses Wedding Ring in the Surf, Immediately Fabricates Another
Our friend Jonathan Danforth, programmer, Maker Faire North Carolina founder, and avid woodworker, was heartbroken when he lost his wedding ring last weekend: I was swimming in the ocean in South Carolina and managed to lose my ring in chest-deep opaque surf. I reached out to the Treasure Hunters forum, and even to a local […]
See the Amazingly Detailed Build of this Pint-Sized Barrel
Robbie the Woodworker shows you how to make a cooper barrel. He also teaches you which unmechanized tool would be used to complete the task.
Turning Beautiful Spoons on a Wood Lathe
It’s interesting to see what can be made using a lathe. Beyond making simple table legs, users have created everything from intricately designed pens to highly detailed jewelry using a myriad of materials. Wood, one of the more versatile materials, can be combined and manipulated with other types to create some truly stunning pieces such […]
Machining a Skeleton Clock from Scratch
Chris of Clickspring presents a fascinating step by step process of how to build a clock from scratch. More than a tutorial, he demonstrates the fine craftsmanship and precision machining possible in ammature clockmaking. The project covers building everything you need for a John Wilding, large wheel, skeleton clock; an open design that displays the […]
