This goblet with its two captive rings on the stem, symbolizes everlasting love between a bride and groom, and signifies a strong bond for the couple’s future.
Woodturning
Canadian Woodworking woodturning articles explore lathe projects, hand-tool techniques, sharpening tips, wood selection, and creative approaches for shaping expressive, finely detailed wooden forms.
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In this final article Bruce shows you how to decorate the tops of the queens, rooks, bishops and kings.
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Last issue, Bruce talked about using traditional ring turning to make the heads of the knights. Now he turns to the bases for all the chess pieces.
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Chess is one of the world’s most popular games. In this first article, I will begin with the most challenging part, turning the knights.
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Give anybody a knife and a piece of wood and their natural instinct is to start making notches.
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Making a new tool handle is an enjoyable process that provides you with the opportunity to further develop your design skills.
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This candle stand is quite unique, with the base appearing rather natural and rugged, seemingly untouched, while the top is a smooth, turned surface.
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Although there are many different styles of plumb bobs, they all, in essence, do the same thing: they enable you to establish a vertical line. Plumb bobs are one of the earliest tools know to man.
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This turned mallet uses purple heart for the handle and osage orange for the head.
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I like to give gifts that are hand made, and because I’m a notoriously cheap person, it’s a good thing I’ve got a little wood shop! Personally I don’t think there’s anything nicer than things made from beautifully figured wood.
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This handy brush is great for getting at any hard to reach places, and is especially suited for dusting your computer's keyboard. It is a simple spindle turning project that becomes extraordinary when you use any one of a variety of beautiful exotic woods.
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In this article I describe turning a piece of wood that is not round, and retains its square corners.
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This is an easy project that is a great spindle exercise. You can make it an elaborate piece, with multiple woods, as shown in this article, or you can make it from one piece of wood.
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The piece is actually comprised of a few different woods, but the main focal point is the elk antler, which makes up the body of the bowl. This project incorporates some box making techniques as well as bowl turning techniques.
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While this article is written primarily for novice scrollers, advanced scrollers may be interested in the technique I used to attach the pattern to the project pieces.Â
