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Here are a couple of Christmas Ornaments that I turned this year.

My daughter challenged me to turn an ornament that would light up.

I have done many searches and have never seen a sea urchin ornament that could be lit up.

I FOUND A WAY!!!!

When researching ornaments I saw a lot of the sea urchins. On making them, every one had the same problem. You cannot glue to the urchin because of the irregular shape of the shell. The only way to hold the top and bottom on is to put a post between the 2 pieces.

Well, this makes it awful hard to drill a hole in the top and put a mini light in it. I figured out a way to connect the two pieces and still put a light in.

Also have a 9volt battery pack attached to one of the mini Christmas lights so you can put this on a stand on the mantle or shelf.

For the tree, I made a jumper that plugs into the tree lights. This way when the tree is on so is the ornament.

On the first ornament, the top and icicle are made from Walnut. The second one, I used a glass icicle ornament. You can see that on the glass one, the light carries all the way through the icicle.

Hope you all like my ornaments.

Thanks for looking. Please post all comments and suggestions.

Scrappy

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Cool job on that lighted ornament! Where there's a will there's a way. Nice turning,Dan!!
 

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Thats a real cool piece Scrappy,
( I know Daughters, now she will want something elese :: )) )
Nice job mate
Pete
 

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Great ornament.
 

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Scrappy that is really cool!
Very beautiful work!
 

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Wow! That looks amazing!
 

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Really nice work. Love the imagination.
 

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Great looking ornament. Now you gotta tell us how you did it.
 

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Nice looking ornaments Scrappy. Bet She loved them.
 

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dan great work
funny cassie and i were just talking about you yesterday and here you post a project and a realy cool 1 at that
 

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A great looking ornament that can be displayed year-round. Awesome idea and beautiful work.
 
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