A few years ago I made a small bathroom cup on my lathe. I turned it from a glued up block of maple, purple heartwood, and walnut. The cup lasted me about a year and a half and then the glue failed. I had used Titebond to glue the blank together …
Category Archive: Walnut
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Dec 12 2014
Pass Through Window
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Sep 10 2012
Checkerboard And Checkers
It happens to all of us, you start a project, something more important comes around, and you forget about the first project for a while. I started gluing up a checkerboard in March, then something came up and I ended up leaving the finished glue-up sitting flat on my bench for about a week. When I …
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Jun 07 2012
Wooden Bookmark With Pressed Clover
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Apr 02 2012
Toothbrush Holder
We needed a new toothbrush holder. Our old one, a clear plastic tube with duckies floating in a mysterious blue liquid, was leaking. Also with it’s tiny holes, it just couldn’t hold the thicker handle toothbrushes that my children use sometimes use. I thought, “I could actually make a something useful on …
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Mar 28 2012
My First Bowl
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Oct 06 2011
Walnut Turner’s Cube
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Sep 22 2011
Making Another Toy Car
I’m taking a step back and showing how I made the wooden car I recently posted here. I first got the idea for this particualr design by looking at some of the wooden cars on the Arizona Wooden Toys website. I liked the design of their “Zoom Racer;” I thought the …
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Sep 13 2011
Finishing Another Toy Car
I swear I already wrote about my newest toy car design, but I can’t find an article on my site. I realize that if I can’t find what I’m looking for on my own site, you poor readers that have to dig through my ramblings are screwed if you need to find an article. I’m …
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Jul 13 2011
Ladder Toy
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