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Bowl depth gauge

Ever made a lampshade out of a bowl?  I’ll never admit to it, but I’ve heard of people hollowing right through the bottom of a bowl

I recently turned a bowl and the bottom was a lot thinner than I liked and getting dangerously close to becoming a lampshade.  So I decided to [...]

Turning a wooden morse taper

For the technically inclined a Morse Taper #2 has a angle of 1° 25′ 50″, as gleaned from the fountain of knowledge, Wikipedia.  For the less technically inclined, myself included, turning a wooden morse taper is a quick and easy project that can be done with some simple measurements.

The first step [...]

Log Processing Platform

For the longest of time I’ve been working on the ground when processing my logs with a chainsaw.  I had a wooden pallet and I would position the logs on it and then cut them.  It worked OK.  Often I had trouble securing the logs so they didn’t move while I was cutting them, [...]

Threaded wooden dowels

I spent some time this weekend organizing my workshop.  It often feels like I spend more time organizing my workshop than I do working on stuff.  A big part of the problem is I keep on buying stuff and then I have to find a home for it in an already crowded space.  A [...]

Chuck Reversing Adapter

Every now and then I buy a tool/gadget that takes a time consuming process and just simplifies it.  Yesterday I picked up a chuck reversing adapter from my local Woodcraft, and is it going to make life easy!

A chuck reversing adapter is used to take a turning that is mounted in a chuck [...]