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Whenever I make something new to me it seems to get old before I'm finished. I have made 30 of the ornaments already so it's not new anymore. I have six more to go sometime soon.
I sharpened the round carbide cutter and what a difference.

I use a spot of hot glue on the end of each quarter and masking tape for the inside turning. Edit: I'm going to have to retract a recommendation to use hot glue. I glued up another 12 ornaments and had a real hard time getting them apart. I had to split them again with the bandsaw. I added a generi...

If you need on another grandchild I sure would like one of the Mr. and Mrs. Frosty.

Great job!

Good morning Bill, I thought actually turning an inside out ornament without the duplicator was fairly easy after the first one. I use a spot of hot glue on the end of each quarter and masking tape for the inside turning. I use polyurethane to coat the inside of the turning while it is still on the ...

I started making some Christmas ornaments the first week of December just prior to the Shopsmith lathe duplicator ad. So off and on over the last two weeks I made a set of 12: 6 walnut, 3 red cedar, and 3 maple for son and family in Alaska. My wife put them in the mail Friday before I got pictures (...

I bought an Oct 1955 Mark 5 parts machine yesterday. In the materials with it was a small pile of Hands ON. Here's the Toy Kitchen.
It is not the exact one you were looking for but I hope it helps.

Five are unfinished and one has Minwax clear semi gloss spray polyurethane.

Thanks Bob84 for fixing the link.

I made five trucks for the December toy drive and one for me. The inspiration was this C Cab truck from Canadian Woodworking. $matches[2] https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/plans-projects/“c”-cab-stake-truck I have to make these for kids to play with so some things get added and other things taken ...

I have four 1"x4" 45° braced boards coming down from the ceiling with a 4" box on each in a 24'x30' shop. You can plug 4 cords in each one. They are about 6 inches above my head with one in each area where I thought I wanted major tools. I also have outlets every ten feet around the p...