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I often hear turners talk about “free wood”.  To my mind there is no such thing as “free wood”.  Between the time and mileage spent driving to pick up the logs and the time and energy spent processing the logs into blanks, I often feel it would be easier and cheaper to just buy [...]

A wooden mallet is very useful in the workshop and I’ve been meaning to make one for a while.   To make things a bit more interesting I decided to make one with an oval handle using off center turning.  An oval handle is also more comfortable to hold than a circular handle.  I made this from cherry, probably not the best of woods to use as it is not the hardest of hardwoods, but it is what I had on hand at the time.

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In a recent post I mentioned I had made a Quarto Board Game for a friend of mine.  It is made from walnut and oak that he sent me.  It was a fun project and was done almost entirely on the lathe.  I used a table saw to cut the stave sections for the sides of the box, and a drill press for the inlays on the top.

This is an article on how I made the board game.  The techniques here could be adapted for a number of different games.  You can download a copy of the rules for Quarto here.

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