Tool Articles

During the 2025-03-19 meeting of World Wide Wood Turners, Bob Grinstead showed us his homemade carving station. Here is some information about the station, allowing your to use it to create your own ...

Using a Steady-Rest can be used to help turning large plates and platters. Most times, turning a flat piece to a very thin thickness (less than a quarter of an inch or 6 mm), such as a disc or platter, is not much of a problem. Especially if it is a small diameter around ...

After being warned about burrs eating fingers. I decided to make a carving vise to use with my Kutzall burrs. I didn’t want a 1" (25mm) burr ...

Here is my chainsaw mill for those who haven’t seen it. I folds up into a small package you can put into your car. 4 pieces total. The beauty of this is I only load the logs once, then leave them on my trailer to cut. In use, I load the logs on my trailer, then ...

By Robert Edwards This accessory can be constructed in order to determine the thickness of the bottom of a vessel. Using plywood or similar material, cut two pieces approximately 6” long and 4”wide. Assemble at right angles to each other. On the bottom piece, attach a piece of stock that fits between ...

Here is a decorating elf tool I made for embellishing tops and boxes. It uses a standard 1/8” cutter ofany shape. A ball cutter works great. I bought: 1/8” id x 3/8” od x 5/32” bearings (you need two, Amazon). 3/8” x 3/8” rare ...

As shown during the July 3rd meeting of World Wide Woodturners, here is Paul Hannaby’s Morse Taper stand. The stand can be free standing or could be mounted flat on a wall if the protruding corner ...

I started with a piece of laminated plywood from an old cabinet. It was only slightly larger than the round piece in the photos. I took a 1-1/2″ x 5″ block of ...

During the 3/29/2023 meeting of the World Wide Wood Turners, Waukeene explained a jig he created to hold turned eggs for sanding. If you want to create this jig, the following describes the construction. Warning, if you make this jig, remember to drill the holes before you cut the slots … or you may find you ...

If you would like your own hardcopy of this description, click here Bob Clark put together a great explanation on how to drill a whole in a solid rod, permitting turners to create a endmill gouge that has been discussed multiple times in our meetings. During each discussions, members that have made the gouge have ...