Thread: Makin' Shavings / Turner's Projects.

Wicked cool man, looks great!!

I set these limbs up in the lathe to drill them. Angling a little off center but still center enough to drill out the piff from end to end. I had just enough length to get them both out of the same limb. I've gotten my CA finish down pat nowadays. No blemishes or rough spots. It sure took a while to get the CA finishes figured out. I could still use another chuck so I don't have to change attachments so often.

Nice set buddy.

Originally Posted by MikeB52

Nice grain on those. Captured well in the profile you chose too.
Nice job buddy.

BTW, Cudos from my mentor! Thank Mike.
I'm hoping to make something tomorrow too. Time will tell.

Turned some handles and farrules for a pair of weeding tools I forged. Had to make myself a new one since i ran over the old one with the mower. (that really made some noise! ). The walnut handled one is for me and the oak handle one as a gift for my son. The white oak is from a historic tree in the area where the settlers made treaties with the natives.

Very cool with the twist. Nice work.

Nice pickle forks for sure. The whole project looks good, the handles and ferrules are a great touch to your forging.

Really nice take on a weeding tool. Love the results. Gives me yet more inspiration to try my hand at smithing sometime in the future.

My wife uses one of those regularly to get up the dandelions.

Today I managed to make 3 kaleidoscopes (Zebrawood) and one shave brush (Purpleheart).



Also made a tool to help clean out the taper on both ends of my lathe. I used a 20 guage bronze bore brush tip...