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Gilette Razor with a cocobolo handle
I wet shave with Double edge Safety razors and Straight Razors. this is an antique Gillette Double edge I refurbished and turned a cocobolo handle for. I used a CA Glue finish.
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Maple handled Shaving Brushes
Shaving Brushes I have made all are made of Sugar maple, the first three have a epoxy coat finish and the last one (which is my personal brush) is simply lacquered
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Maple Fishing Lure
This is a first experiment with lures. it is made out of Sugar maple and has a high gloss CA glue finish, a friend of mine who is a better fisherman than I, is going to give it a dip and see if it...
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Refinishing Hamilton Drafting Table
Well about 2 weeks ago I was mulling over the materials need to build myself a drawing table. Then providence interceded and I found this old Hamilton on a surplus auction at my local university. the...
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My first mallet (maul)
This is a practice piece getting ready to make some setting maul style gavels for my Masonic brothers. It is a soft maple head and a padauk handle friction set in place. I was very happy to get the...
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Masters Gavel
A Maul Style gavel for a friend of mine who is becoming Worshipful Master of his lodge, His Fathers Gavel (who will be senior warden) will be put up tomorrow. the head is turned from a nice piece of...
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Masters Gavel Part two
A friend of mine is becoming Worshipful Master of his lodge, this Maul Style gavel is his Fathers (who will be senior warden) . the head is turned from a nice piece of Ash with some pretty spalting and...
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Halloween casket
So … one of my other major hobbies s Halloween! This year I needed to build a new casket to be turned over in my haunt My wife then distressed it and put in a tattered lining. It is built from 14- 6’ x...
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Halloween sign
As i posted on my last project I am a Halloween nut. this is the new sign for my Haunted Cemetery. I cut it from 1/4 plywood with a saber saw and re-enforced it with SS lathing mesh which helped make...
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segmented shaving brush
My first attempts at building a segmented piece for turning. It is Walnut Maple and Cherry with purely ornamental walnut dowels. the finish is CA glue. I am pretty happy with this but I need to get...
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Maple Bowl
Finally got around to trying my hand at turning a bowl. I had a chunk of curly maple that had been lying around so I set it up on a block and my face plate (first time I used the faceplate too) I had...
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Shaving bowl and brush
My Daughter ended up claiming this one for her legs. It’s a 5 inch bowl and matching brush with a CA finish. She squeaked when she realized she could have it. ( Don’t get a squeak every day for my wood...
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Pecan Gavel
This is the Gavel I made for Monica Riney, my darling wife, for her year as Worthy Matron of our OES chapter. It is made from Pecan wood naturally fallen from the tree in the front yard of the house...
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Bowls
I am rapidly turning into a bowl junkie The first one is 3.5 inch Tiger maple with a CA finish, the second is 8 inch Brazilian Rosewood with a wipe on Poly finish and the third is 5 inch Hard maple...
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Texas Stars
Texas Star wall hangings. After I made 2 from reclaimed oak from a Rt 66 flat bed with angle iron edges and lag blots , I decided to use the scrap cut out stars to make 2 more. I used some cedar fence...
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Pallet Bowl
this is a trash to treasure kinda project. I dismantled pallets planed then then glued them into a block. then I planed and trimmed the block and put it on the lathe and the beautiful bowl at the end...
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Toasting Cup
Turned a cup for a dear friend of mine who passed away. this cup is for the toast given in her remembrance
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second pallet bowl
same pallet second glue up and turning. I did a bead rim and a thicker wall this time, no blow out.
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back into to wood
I had a crazy idea this weekend, I figured Newspaper is made of wood pulp, I should be able to find a way to make it back into a turnable blank of some kind. after a few different failed experiments I...
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Pallets and Singer oh my!
I built this table using an old Singer Treadle sewing machine base and reclaimed pallet wood. After dismantling the pallet I Ran the boards through a planer to clean them up. After selecting wood some...
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