3 Legged Mahogany Box

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Here's another 3-legged box turned on my lathe, made from Mahogany scraps glued into a blank. It measures 2 inches in diameter and just over 4 inches high. The finial is a glass sphere.

 

Tiny Mahogany Box

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Here's another Mahogany box made from scrap wood glued into a block and turned on my lathe. The box measures 2 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches high. It has three "feet", and a finial. The finish is high speed wax.

Small Mahogany Box

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This is a small Mahogany wood box, measuring 3.75 inches in diameter and 3.5 inches high. This is made from scraps of Mahogany glued together into a block, then turned on my lathe. The finish is high speed wax and shellac.

Tiny Maple Wood Bowl

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Here is a tiny Maple wood bowl turned on my lathe. The finish is high speed wax and shellac. The bowl measures 3.5 inches in diameter and 1.75 inches high.

Small Walnut Wood Box

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This is another small wooden box turned on my lathe. It is Walnut wood. The box is just under 2 inches in diameter and about 1.5 inches high. The finish is shellac and Carnuba wax.

Tiny Three Legged Box

This is a lathe turned box made from Maple wood. It's just under 2 inches in diameter, and a little over 2 inches high. The cap fits firmly. It has a hand rubbed linseed oil finish. This is one of my better results. The height of my current wood turning skills. I'm rather pleased with it.  This wood came from a tree in my own yard; a Silver Maple. It was a large tree we had cut down this year. I saved some logs from it, so expect to see more of this wood in the future. 

Lathe Turned Needle Case

This needle case is just under three inches long. It's made from Mahogany and has a snug, friction fitting cap. It has a hand-rubbed boiled linseed oil finish.

 

A Small Sculpture

This is a small sculpture made of Spruce wood. It's all Right angles. The minimum number of lines to define a cube in three dimensional space. Each beam is six inches long. Each side is one inch wide. There are only two possible ways to display this construction. The reclining position shown above. (Flipping it over, it looks the same.)

Below is the second way to display it. No matter which side it's "standing" on it looks the same.

Guitar Pick box: band saw box

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Here's a tiny band saw box made from Rosewood. It measures 2 x 2 x 3/4 inches. It has a brass hinge pin, and the lid is friction fitted (no hardware other than the hinge pin), the lid snaps closed. This is made from one solid piece of wood, so all the grain is in line front, back and sides. It's been sanded to 400 grit. It is finished with boiled linseed oil and a final coat of Museum Wax.

 

box with lid open to see interior.

Another view of the open box.

Mobile' #64

This is Mobile' #64, made from mild steel with blue glass inserts. The finish is a clear satin varnish. It measures 16 inches tall and 15 inches wide.

Mobile' #63

Here is a painted steel mobile, #63, with colored glass marbles inset into some of the elements. The mobile' measures 10 inches tall and about 11 inches wide. The paint colors are transparent. Very heavy for its size.

Segmented Bowl

This is a segmented bowl made from (top to bottom) Oak, Mahogany, Oak, Poplar, Spruce. It measures 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall. Finish is high-speed wax polish. My first segmented bowl.

Pine and Mahogany Wood Bowl

This bowl, turned on my lathe, is made from layers of Pine (this light colored wood) and Mahogany (the darker wood). It measures  5.25 inches in diameter and 3.25 inches high. Finished with a high speed polish and Carnuba wax.

Guitar Pick Box

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This is a small box I made, in the shape of a guitar pick, for storing guitar picks. It is made from Mahogany wood. It has a brass pin for a hinge. It measures 3/4 of an inch thick and just shy of 2 inches in longest dimension. The lid has a friction fit . . . there is no closing latch . . . the friction fit holds it closed. Did most of the work on this on the band saw. Finish is boiled linseed oil only.

Small Maple Bowl

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This is a small Maple wood bowl turned on my lathe. It measures 3.75 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches high. High speed polish wax finish.

Yet Another Walnut Bowl

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Aaand another Walnut wood bowl. This one is 6 inches in diameter and 1.75 inches high. It has a matte finish.

Another Small Walnut bowl

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Here is another Walnut wood bowl turned on my lathe. This one's 2.5 inches high and 3.5 inches diameter. Walnut is beautiful wood and a pleasure to work with on the lathe.

Small Maple Wood Bowl

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Here is another small Maple wood bowl with nice figuring in the grain. It measures 3.75 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches high. Finished with a high speed wax polish.

Small Walnut Bowl

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Here is a small Walnut wood bowl turned on my lathe. Made from a very nice piece of wood too small for making much else out of it. Bowl measures 2 inches high and 5 inches in diameter.

Spalted Maple Box

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This is a footed spalted Maple box turned on my lathe. It is 2.5 inches in diameter and 4.25 inches high. There were some voids inside this piece of wood which I filled with black Milliput epoxy. Here, I'm challenging myself with more difficult things to turn. I'd call this one a success.

Small Pear Bowl

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This is a small footed bowl turned on my lathe. It is Pear wood. The dimensions are 1.75 inches high and 3.25 inches in diameter. The dark spot is a bit of bark, giving this bowl a unique bit of character. Up until now, it's been too cold in my shop to do this kind of work. Expect to see more soon.

Rolling Guitar Rack

I made a guitar rack because it takes up less space in my studio than a bunch of single guitar stands. This one holds 6 to 10 guitars depending on what kind I put on it. This stand takes up the space of 3 single guitar stands. It has wheels and the neck yokes on the top bar can slide along that bar to line up with whatever guitar I decide to but on it. This cost next to nothing to make . . . made from scrap wood and carpet, the wheels came off an office chair that broke . . . threw out the chair and saved the wheels.

Scrap wood bowl #2

This bowl is about 3.5 inches tall and a little over 4 inches wide. It is made from (top to bottom) white pine, mahogany, oak, mahogany, oak, mahogany, ponderosa pine, mahogany, and cabinet grade, maple veneer plywood. The bottom is recessed with 3 "feet" cut into it.

Glass Canister

Here is another canister I made from glued-together blocks of scrap wood from my shop. The canister is 9.5 inches tall and about 3 inches wide. The bottom is two pieces of 3/4 inch pine boards glued together and turned. It has a groove in the top side to accept the bottom of the glass cylinder. The bottom side of the base is hollowed out. The glass cylinder was made by cutting off the top and bottom of a wine bottle, keeping just the straight part. The lid was made from a block off layered scraps, top to bottom: Oak (knob), two 1/8 inch layers of Redwood, cabinet grade plywood, and Redwood at the bottom of the lid. The glass was glued into the groove.

A Small Spalted Maple Bowl

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Here is a nice little spalted Maple bowl I turned. It measures 2 inches high by 3.5 in diameter. I had this nice piece of spalted Maple that wasn't too far gone. There's a bit of bark left near the base on opposite sides of the bowl. I finished the bowl with sanding sealer and a couple of light coats of high speed polish. There is a "foot" around the base of the bowl. A very beautiful little piece of wood is now a beautiful, functional object.

Very Small Walnut Canister

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I made this Walnut wood canister from what was left of the spindle from which I turned the last canister I made. This one's only about 1.75 inches long but the same width as the last one I turned, 1 and 3/16's in diameter. This one's finished with a light coat of high speed polish and carnuba wax, unfinished inside.

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A Small Walnut Canister

 This is a small Walnut wood canister. It measures 3 inches high and one and 3/16 inches in diameter. I've added a series of beads to both the cap and the body of the canister. This was made from a couple of pieces of Walnut glued together. They were too small for much else. Walnut is such nice turning wood, I hated to see even the scraps go to waste. This is great wood to work with. Easy to turn, and it finishes very nicely.
My wood turning skills are improving. I've still a ways to go before I'm adept at all the cutting tools. I learn something every single time I work at the lathe. There are still many things I'd like to try. I'll get to them eventually. I like making the bowls and canisters. There are so many possibilities as to the kinds and shapes and sizes, and woods. They are also functional as well as beautiful.