Woodturner Makes a Rattle

Here’s a neat video where a wood turner uses a bow driven lathe to turn a small baby rattle. He uses one hand to spin the headstock, his other hand and foot to control the cutting tools! The guy uses his feet to turn! Very cool to watch.

Posted in Demonstrations, Homemade Tools, Projects, Toys
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Woodturning Turning A Base For Basket Weaving

Carl Jacobson (thewoodshop.tv) shows you how to turn a base for a woven basket. Very clever project that turned out beautiful.

Posted in Bowls, Demonstrations, Misc. Projects, Projects, Tutorials
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Turning Salt and Pepper Mills

The Apprentice and The Journeyman provides a woodworking video tutorial showing how salt and pepper mills are turned on the wood lathe. Black walnut is used in this wood turning along with a variety of lathe tools. www.TheApprenticeandTheJourneyman.com

Posted in Demonstrations, Pepper Mills, Projects
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Woodturning a Salad Bowl

Here’s a long 5 part series on turning a huge Salad Bowl. It will take you awhile to get through all the videos, but it is fun to see it come together in real-time.

Part 1