Small Walnut Wood Box

 

This Walnut wood box is 1.5 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall. The lid is friction fit. A green glass sphere of a knob. Wet sanded with mineral oil up to 320 grit. No finish on the final box. There is some texturing around the lid.

Small Pear Wood Canister

 Here's a Pear wood canister (box), measuring 2.75 inches high and one inch in diameter. I've textured the inside of the lid and the bottom of the box. This was wet sanded and has a mineral oil finish. 

Old School Wood Turned Lighter

 

This item is 5.25 inches high and 2 inches in diameter. The wood is (top to bottom) Walnut, Cherry, Spalted Maple, and Walnut again at the base. I had this old flint lighter part laying around and wanted to make something on my lathe to hold it. I decided to make it in the shape of a ceramic vessel, since I'm working with these shapes all the time in my restoration business. I used some scraps of wood that were too small to use for anything else. The finish is a high-speed polished wax. I'm rather pleased with the outcome. 

T-Connector Mallet

 

I've been wanting to make this for some time. I finally got around to it. This mallet is 10 inches long and it's 5 inches from the face of one hammer head to the other. That's a 3/4 inch steel threaded pipe "T" connector. The hammer heads are White Oak, the handle is Mahogany. The handle and both heads are threaded, not glued, into the T-connector. That makes this a little easier to fix if the wood breaks. This thing has quite a bit of heft to it. It goes well with the awl I posted a bit earlier. The finish is orange oil and wax. 

Mirrored Shelf From Old Piano Parts

 

This is a mirrored shelf I made from an old piano that me and my brother-in-law broke up a few years ago. I saved a bunch of parts from this because I don't like to throw away good material. 

This is the top of the front of an upright piano; the part where the sliding doors open and where the sheet music would stand. The wood is mostly Mahogany. The mirror was 12 X 48 inches but I broke the mirror when I was removing it from its original frame. It was glued in the frame, so removing it was difficult. The opening would've been filled by the original size of the mirror. Now that the mirror is smaller I had to fill the space with something, so I used a couple pieces of birds eye Maple at either end. That made nice accents and made the whole thing look just a little bit better. The whole thing measures about five feet long and about 16 inches high. It fits just right at the head of the bed. 

Here's a closer look at the Maple insert and baluster detail.

Drill Bit Awl

 

Some day this awl will be yours. 

I can't be the first person who thought of this idea. It is pretty cool looking though. That's a 1/4 inch twist drill bit ground tapered to a point. The twists are still very sharp, so it's easy to bore out and enlarge a hole with this. That's a piece of Plum wood for the handle, with a brass ferrule. Kinda Steam Punk lookin'.