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  1. Hurricane Candle Holder from Dunnage

    We buy the glass tops to lamps and candles at the second hand stores for me to make bases. This is my first attempt at a "Hurricane" Candle Holder. I think the top is actually from a Kerosene Lantern, but it worked great for this. The wood is more Indian dontknow dunnage. This particular piece...
  2. Ice Cream Scoops

    A couple days before Christmas Deb stopped by woodcraft to pick something up for me. She also brought back an ice cream scoop kit (very nice stainless kit.) She suggested I make a handle for it from dunnage to give to our daughter in law (that gets the dunnage for me.) So I grabbed a pre-cut...
  3. Flat bowl from Dunnage

    I was in the shop yesterday trying to figure out how to fit 1000 square feet of shop equipment into a 750 square foot shop. I needed a brain break and decided to relax and play around on the lathe. I have a bunch of bowl blanks I made for the Christmas show season but didn't get turned, so I...
  4. Small bowl (4 inches) from dunnage

    Yep, yet another bowl design from the dunnage pile. I made a lager "inverted" bowl a couple weeks before Christmas and thought I'd try it out on a smaller scale. Indian dontknow wood, sanded to 320 grit, one coat of 2# shellac buffed off while wet, then about 3 or 4 applications of superglue on...
  5. Yankee Candle holder from Dunnage

    Trying to kill off the bowl blanks from Christmas…Deb was throwing away some old Yankee candles… They're all the same diameter jar so as I was taking them to the shop (for the wax of course) I thought….why not. More dunnage (Indian dontknow) sanded to 320 with a single coat of 2# shellac buffed...
  6. Ice Cream Scoops from Dunnage.

    I made a couple of scoops for Christmas presents and posted them to Pinterest To my (pleasant) surprise it generated a request for more. I have the process down to 30 minutes from grabbing a handle blank to ready to glue the scoop on. Pinterest a pretty nice site, it lets you price items...
  7. Mallet / Table Leg from Dunnage

    I must have missed the email about the great mallet exchange. But I have to show my dual purpose mallet. I turned it as a practice for making some oak table legs for a customer. The wood is more of the Indian dontknow I use for most of my work. This particular piece is incredibly dense...
  8. Cane handles

    At our Christmas craft show a gentleman took my card who was interested in getting a set of custom handles made for one of my dunnage canes. He brought a slab of curly maple to the shop and we discussed the types of handles, one long grip and one ball end. He wanted a military challenge coin...
  9. Lots more Ice Cream Scoops

    I made these one afternoon. I make handles for several things, so I have lots of blanks cut and ready to turn. The one with the pointed handle is an off axis turning. I made the scoop end on axis, then shifted about 1/4 inch in one direction, then 1/4 inch in the other. But I didn't turn the off...
  10. 3 Tier Coin Display

    A customer at one of the craft shows asked if I could do a 3 level coin holder. She didn't want anything fancy, so I made three standard 2 slot holders and epoxied them together. Indian Don't know wood. Sanded to 320 grit, sealed with 2# shellac, polished on the Beall buff system. I think the...
  11. Candle Holder from dunnage

    The wife and I go to the thrift stores looking for things I can incorporate into my woodworking. We picked up the glass cylinder for a couple of bucks. I used a pre-made bowl blank to make the base. In use the candle sits on a glass plate. Base is about 8 inches in diameter. Base and cylinder...
  12. Hanging Challenge Coin Display, from Dunnage

    I made these a while back and just realized the only picture I'd posted was when I tried cutting my finger off a Trepanning (circle cutting) bit. Made from scraps of dunnage left from squaring stock on the tablesaw. Each hole is cut to fit the coin. But in requiem, the wood is so thin, (about...
  13. 5 1/2 inch saucer in Curly Movingui (dunnage)

    As I posted in a blog article a small bowl I was experimenting with flew apart at 1300 RPM. No injuries, minimal damage, lesson learned. Not to be intimidated, I glued the pieces back together and finished the bowl. This is one of the few pieces of dunnage I feel comfortable naming the species...
  14. 9" Butcher Block Bowl from Dunnage

    Decided to try something different, a butcher block bowl. Tablesaw wasn't set properly so there was some gap in the "square" sections, so after turning I had to fill some gaps in the bottom with shavings and superglue. Due to the nature of superglue on open end-grain I actually finished the...
  15. Wood Storage Dunnage

    With the recent weather of snow, thaw, freeze, rain; I had some water come into my shop door (tuck under garage). Made this dunnage from treated lumber to fit the space. Used deck screws that resist corrosion. I made the arches with a hole saw on drill press.
  16. Traveling Work & Saw Bench

    A couple years ago, I first ran across Greg Miller's Saw Stool on Steroids. The idea rattled around until I decided to build a modified version, to make it more versatile for my needs. While not a total Christopher Schwarz fanboy, I can relate to his advice for workbench building material...
  17. Business card and Smart phone holders from dunnage

    I had some scraps of wood left over and was trying to figure out what do make with them. The wife said she was going to go buy some business card holders for her cards at the craft shows we go to. BINGO!!! I made a few and they worked great…one more thing in the repertoire. We sold some so I...
  18. Harley Davidson paperweight, from Dunnage

    I got this Harley Davidson gas cap cover about 18 months ago to make a paperweight to sell at a Harley festival. I didn't get it done before the show, so It's been riding around in my craft show box. I dug it out this afternoon and made this using a bowl blank I made up before Christmas. Just a...
  19. Drop-edged (Mushroom) bowl from Dunnage

    I was getting ready for our big Christmas craftshow and glued up about 30 bowl blanks from the dunnage I use for most of my work. I didn't get them all turned and was looking to make something different for the wife. This idea came to me after the wood was on the lathe. I don't usually stain...
  20. Burned bowl from Dunnage

    I sometimes add a wire burnt line to my turnings for visual effect. This time I tried using a torch to scorch the wood. I was looking for a fade from burnt to natural. I did learn that if you run the lathe too fast the wood heats up instead of scorching…this is a bad thing for a glued joint...
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