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Many seem to have questions on how the rattles are made. I will describe how I do it as best I can. I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish this task and would love to see how you do it. I start out with a 2"x2"x6" turning bland. I make the the entire length round. Then I make a dovetail tenon on each end so as to mount them in the dovetail jaws on the chuck. I also make a parting cut two inches from the end leaving a 2" and a 4" piece. I mount the 2" piece to hollow out the inside cavity. I use 1-5/16" as the inside diameter and allow for a 3/16 recess so I am going to go a total of 1" deep from the end. I have a steel washer that I use as a guide to size the cavity. I size the recess to 1-7/16" and go 3/16" deep and then hollow the inside of the 1-5/16" ball to 13/16" deep from that ledge. 13/16" is half diameter. The recess ledge is the center of the ball both inside and outside. Now it can be rough turned on the outside. Use the parting tool to make a cut at 1-1/8" which is the end and round it over as required. I then part it off and mount the handle end in the chuck. A 3/16" long tenon needs cut on the end to fit in the top piece. Cutting the outside makes it much easier to sneak up on a good fit. The very end of this piece is the center of the ball so hollow it out to 13/16" deep for the other half of the inside cavity. Add the media being used for the noise maker, BBs in this case, and glue it together. There is going to be some squeeze out of the glue so don't move it around until the glue dries to prevent getting glue on the balls and gluing them to the insides. Remember to align the grain too. Mount it back on the lathe when the glue dries. Keeping in mind the center of the ball is 3/16 from the glue line turn the rattle to the final shape and sand and add burn lines as necessary. The glue line should be the first burn line from the left. I add two more to the right because I find three burn lines most pleasing to the eye the center burn line is real close to the actual center. I like to sand to 400 grit. I like to leave the end piece for a handle to use while applying finish. In between coats remounting can be done if desired for removing dust nibs and smoothing. Once the finishing is done, part off the end piece, and rub some finish in the fresh cut. Now it is time to take some pictures and share them here.
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Young couple next door just had a baby. I like to give a rattle for newborns and noticed I was out. Spent a couple days making these three out of Hard Maple. My niece recently showed me a video of her baby playing with his. She said it is his favorite because it is the loudest. Never thought I would hear that as they don't sound very loud to me.
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Finished a few baby rattles I have been turning in my spare time. They are all done in Maple with the two darker rattles finished with Amber Shellac and the lighter one done with Wood Turners Finish which is a water based finish. I used BB's in one and bearing balls in two. The bearing balls make more noise. I used 12 BBs in the one and it weighs in at 1.45 oz. I used 6 bearing balls in another which weighs in at 1.50 oz. They are 2" OD on the rattle end and 4.75" long. I made an inside and outside template to strive for a 1/8" wall thickness. The center burn line hides the glue line. Critiques and comments welcome.
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This is a scanned document of the now defunct Workbench Magazine of this era. Permission was granted by the new Workbench Publication for The Patriot Woodworker community to copy and use the old Workbench Magazine at our pleasure, and for free distribution and re-use. These old Workbench Magazine's were fairly light on the detail, but with some prior knowledge and experience you can use this plan as a great jumping off point to build this wonderful piece of furniture history. -
Patriot Woodworker Paul Corona shared this on our Facebook timeline, and it move me, woodworkers never cease to amaze me with their kindness. We are a pretty good bunch of folks aint we? In Cokato, MN a man bought a crib at a garage sale and then learned it was supposed to be for a baby that had been stillborn. He turned it into a memorial bench and brought it back to the mom.
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I delivered the baby bed project yesterday. I've been working on it way too long, but at least I got it done before the baby showed up. I had a heck of a time with the connector bolts, trying to blindly get them to hit those little threaded barrels just put me over the edge. I ended up getting some threaded inserts and running a die down the connector bolts to get more threads and putting it together like that. It looks plenty strong to me and pretty easy to assemble.
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