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Published on 1/1/2025 Regular Kit Corner contributor Rick Rich tackles a wedding guest book pen.
Published on 11/1/2024 Trick out your ride with an easy-to-turn car air freshener from a kit.
Published on 2/1/2024 By Walter Wager: Turning a palm saver is a simple solution for making your tools user-friendly.
Published on 2/1/2024 By Tim Heil and Mark Palma: A burnishing tool is used in the woodshop to raise a burr on a scraping tool, creating an effective tool for refining a wood surface, even in challenging grain.
Published on 2/1/2024 By D.E. McIvor: Exchange your plastic seed pots for paper seed pots made with the help of a simple turning project—a seed pot press.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Jim Echter: Every advanced woodturner was once a beginner. Based on my thirty years as a woodturner, I offer a list of tips and suggestions that I wish I had known when I first started to turn wood.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Walt Wager: This article presents a way to get the inside-out ornament look without gluing and regluing. You might call it an “inside-out illusion.”
Published on 11/22/2023 By John Lucas: I had never done three-, six-, or nine-sided inside-out turnings. I turned a few experiments and one of them had a silhouette that looked like a snowman. That’s how it all began.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Ron Giordano: I made this bubble light Christmas ornament because it brings back memories of the old liquid-filled bubble lights from the 1950s and ‘60s.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Linda Ferber: Here’s where we push the limits of our top design to see which design elements can be manipulated and still achieve a spinning top. Spinning, but perhaps a little unbalanced, or as I like to call them—wobblers.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Rick Rich: We usually use a white plastic breadboard the size of a legal pad with ugly knife marks all over it, so I thought it would be nice to have something proper for serving cheese. Especially something with a real marble tile in the middle.
Published on 11/22/2023 By Tim Heil: I have stopped using commercial stainless steel bottle stopper hardware. Instead, I turn stoppers from wood. Making stoppers is a great way to use those beautiful small scraps of hardwood that are just too lovely to throw away.
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