today's quicky toothpick holder

That’s pretty clever. Your own design, I’venot seen one like it?

-- Dan - Valparaiso, Indiana, "A smart man changes his mind, a fool never does."

Dan, I found a video on youtube.. Not too difficult to do. I only needed to see the parts involved, after that I pretty much winged it. Took about 4 hours from picking the wood off the shelf to putting it on the kitchen counter. I probably went way overboard with the spindle inside because you really can’t see it, but hey, if you’re going to put something on the lathe, might as well make it fancy.

Looking at the video now, I see that I made mine much bigger in capacity than this guy did. I used a 3×3 chunk to start with, and used a 1 3/4” forstner bit. Cebil made plenty of smoke going down the end grain. Hope you give it a shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI7LuEOfF0s

-- Scott, Irmo SC

Very nice project. Also a great idea.

-- http://reclaimedbuilding.blogspot.com/

Scott,
Great Project!! What a nice gift, simply beautiful!!

Thanks for sharing

-- Chuck Emery, Michigan,