More snow, then ice and then rain- you would have thought it would have been a good week for turning but, alas, the shop was filled with lots of maple strips, TiteBind III and beech-wood biscuits.

 

In between gluing the strips, I have been able to finally glue up a blank for a salt shaker I promised Mimi. I'm anxious to see what type of pattern emerges from the various wood species and the manner in which they were glued. If I was really good with Sketchup, I could probably produce a drawing but those skills are barely beyond the "box" stage. 

 

 

 

I'll need to trim the diagonal piece and then mount it on the lathe. This isn't going to be a grinder type of salt shaker- just a plain old fill at the bottom and shake out the top. I have the sneaky suspicion she's going to give it as a gift.

Maybe by next week, I can get it, at least, rounded.

 

Popular Woodworking has posted another Tim Yoder video on YouTube. Tim makes a colorful pendant.

What's really great about this episode is that Tim explains a little about dying wood and how those principles can be applied to other turnings.

 

 

Safe Turning!

The Salt is back!!! Nice topic Lew, thanks a heap! I remember the salt cellars, I still have that ol blog on our other site, it just needs to be transferred over, we'll get to it I promise. So what's with the dovetails or finger joints, was that board a mistake from another project?

2 hours ago, John Morris said:

 So what's with the dovetails or finger joints, was that board a mistake from another project?

 

They were just a pieces I grabbed off of the wood rack. Might have been test pieces when I first got my Porter Cable dovetail machine, many years ago. I never throw anything away.

Sounds like my wood rack scrap bin Lew. I have a dovetail samples and test pieces all over the place, I even have some favorites that just look really nice, two boards joined by DT's and they just sit there on a shelf, to be moved around when they get in my way.