Only 63 days to go…
…to the winter solstice!
And obviously, we need decorations, so…
Time for a little spindle turning. This is the quick centerfinder I got off aliexpress a while back – it’s a nifty little thing. For any spindle blank I could get on my minilathe, it’s just much faster than any other centerfinder I have. Though if it’s not a blank, if it’s a branch or whatever, it’s not so good. But for prepped blanks it’s nifty.
Also, because this is spindle turning, it’s less likely to grab a tool and shove it through your faceplate, so small people can help…
At first, it was just help to stain the wood and sand it at the end, but on the second tree, we progressed to learning about the spindle roughing gouge…
I think that might be far enough to go for a while yet, but we have more snowmen and trees to make before December gets here.… Read the rest