Easy Woodturning Projects / Episode 1

in this video we'll be using a wood lathe to create some tea light candle holders out of some choice hardwoods so stick around one of the things I really enjoy about wood turning is that I never run out of gifts for people I figured out there with my own two hands and some tools I can create some beautiful things that people really enjoy when I first started out though I needed some more ideas for projects I found I was doing the same thing over and over again so in this video series it's my hope that I can give you some ideas that will help you develop and discover just how much you can do with a wood lathe I'm Jason geyser and this is geyser woodturner let's make some tea light candle holders the tea light candle is an inexpensive little candle I think I bought these by the Dozen they usually come in their own tin and if you're worried about the flame you can get these in battery-powered as well I've chosen these three hardwoods so that we can make three candle holders today and I've already marked the center so I'm going to pound in our drive center and I don't have to worry about a splitting this piece of boxelder it's a little bit softer I'm also going to use Hickory and honey locust that's in the back now what we're going to do is Mount our blinks between centers and prep them all to be received by a Chuck so that I can hold them on one end so this is our piece of boxelder I'm going to rough it and get it to the cylinder shape that I want and then I'll break out a parting tool and we're going to make a tenon on the end or a spigot and we're going to make it exactly the size that we'll need to fit into the Chuck the reason I need to hold it in a Chuck is so that I can work on one end to be able to hollow it out to receive our candle for our candle holder okay then we'll move on to our piece of hickory so we'll use our roughing gouge to round it to a cylinder and then again with the parting tool and I set a caliper so I know I get the right size 10 and I want to make sure that that's a good fit so that I have a lot of surface area gripping that piece of wood and then a little bit different on our piece of honeylocust since this is a branch I kind of want to leave that natural bark on there so what I'm gonna do is just make the tenon this piece isn't completely round but it's not real wobbly either we just want to make sure we can hold it really well with a chuck if you don't have a Chuck there are other ways to hold a piece of wood from the end such as gluing it to a waste block okay now we need to determine the size of our candle how big of a hole are we're going to need to put in the end the first method we're going to use is with a Forstner bit and I found out it's about an inch and a half and that gives us just a bit more space so that we can fit the candle in so we'll mount our piece of boxelder into the Chuck and tighten that up and then what we're going to do is just true up the face so that it's completely at a ninety degree angle to the the sides and that'll just give us a good surface to start from and I'll come in make a little dimple with my skew chisel and we're ready to drill and I usually slow down the lathe for this part so we'll go in to about the depth that we need and you can test it with the candle if you need to are there's other ways of testing your depth this one needs just a little bit more so we'll drill that just a little bit more there we go good fit so I product the tailstock for some support and it fit right into that little dimple left by the Forstner bit and when I start thinking about shape I usually mark it out and get an idea in my mind what I want the wood to look like so for this candle holder I'm just gonna do a kind of easy rounded shape with the spindle gouge and I'll just start from high to low and take off a little bit at a time and roll a bead and then I'll just kind of clean it up with a scraper taking some really light shavings and then do a little bit of sanding to make sure it's all smooth and the way I want it to be and then I'll just kind of define where I want the bottom with a narrow parting tool and that candle holder is pretty much done and ready so I'll put some brushing lacquer on it and cut it off with a saw and then we can work on the bottom later so we're going to mount our piece of hickory in the Chuck now and I bring up the tail stock just to help Center it as I tighten and then we're going to use the same method that we used on our piece of boxelder to drill out our hollow for the candle and just using a Forstner bit so on this one I decided to do a little bit different shape I kind of wanted to do an hourglass shape and make it a little bit taller so I'm gonna work my way down and then we're gonna put a bead in the center so I'll work my way down to that bead in the center going from high to low with my spindle gouge and then I'll just kind of shave off that bead in the center until it's about the right depth that I want it and then I can start to round that bead and I'll just roll the spindle gouge into the corners and again working high-to-low so I'll start in the center of that bead and work my way down into those corners and just take your time and try and practice and make everything round okay so a couple of different things I wanted to do I'm gonna try and burn a line in the center so with my skew chisel I kind of defined the bottom and made a groove for this line and with a wire just hold it on there and make some friction there burns a line we'll clean everything up with a scraper just really light cuts here okay and then one more time we'll use that narrow parting tool to define the bottom of our candle holder and then a little bit more sanding and you can go through the grit so I'm not gonna show it all here and then I'll put on some again some brushing lacquer I'll just wipe that on okay then we'll move on to our last candle holder that we're gonna work on is our piece of honey locust and I'm gonna do a few different methods on this one because we're gonna leave the bark on it and we're also gonna Hall at the end just a little bit differently so this one would just Center it up really well and it's not completely round so I want to make some part on the end that's completely round so I'm going to take away a little bit of that bark and then we'll just true it up just like we did the others we're just using our spindle gouge here or a bowl gouge or work just fine just give us a surface to work from on the end and what the skew I'll put a little dimple there and this one I'm going to go in just to remove some material with a quarter inch drill bit and just go to the depth that I want so I can haul this out by hand we're gonna use a our spindle gouge and go from inside to outside and just write that bevel and work your way to our inch and a half mark and I've already marked where I want to go to so that I don't take out too much and this is end grain hollowing now I want to kind of square that up so I'm coming in with a carbide tool and you'll see that I'm making light passes and just kind of going across I don't want the end of that carbide tool to hit the bottom of that really because you get a whole lot of surface area on the bottom of something and you're gonna get a catch so this one I'm going to kind of leave the bottom of it rounded and we'll just kind of square it up as we go I can go just a little bit deeper on this one so again I'll come in with that carbide tool take away some of that material and square it up and then I'll just kind of round the bottom of it and blend it all in with a round scraper and our candle fits pretty well and I don't have to do a whole lot of work on the outside now I just have to make a spot for the bottom to sit so I'm just gonna kind of take the bark away little by little then I'm gonna make a little foot on this one so we're gonna turn a little bead there and just kind of come in as close as we can to that bark to leave all that bark in the center and then with that narrow parting tool again I'll define the bottom of where we want the bottom of our candle holder to be so we'll sand and then again put some finish on it and you kind of want to wipe this one on by hand because it's it's out of round and this got pretty bumpy as I did it with the lave on okay so that one's ready to come off the lave and this one we're just gonna part it all the way off with the parting tool just another method of doing it the last thing we need to do is flatten the bottom of our candle holders we don't want them to rock back and forth and you can do that by hand sanding or carving but I like to do things the easy way on the lathe so what we're gonna do is make a jam Chuck so we can work on the bottom basically we'll take our waste piece and cut a tenon into it and then we'll jam that piece onto there and we want it to be kind of a tight fit we don't want it to be too tight and crack our piece or too loose this one was just a little bit loose but one trick you can use this to put a paper towel in there now what you want to do when you're working on the bottom is make your cuts pushing towards the headstock and that helps it so it doesn't come flying off of there so this one's done we'll go ahead and sand and put some finish on it and again using the same brushing lacquer okay well tap that one off there and work on our piece of hickory this one just worked out so that I could use the exact same tenon and the paper towel was the exact same size which never happens you're usually always constantly adjusting your tenon so that you can make everything fit just right so we'll work on the bottom of that one and I'm just cutting with the spindle gouge again and you want to make sure that that is flat or even just a little bit concave on the bottom so that it doesn't rock back and forth okay we'll put our finish on that one and then I'm tapping on the waste block so I don't have to put dents in my candle holder to it I've just made also our boxelder candleholder from a little bit different angle so you can see what I'm doing so I'm taking the spindle gouge and working my way from Center to the outside and just kind of making sure that that's concave and flat and ready to go so we'll sand and put our finish on there and then we've got some beautiful candle holders ready for your next romantic dinner I appreciate you being here while we made tea light candle holders it's a fun project that'll allow you to practice your skills as well as give you some things to give away as gifts I have a lot of ideas for some easy wood turning projects that I can show you in the future if that sounds good to you hit the subscribe button and digging that notification bell if you don't want to miss a single one of them it's my hope that you can make create and learn some skills today and we'll see you soon

Channel: Geiserwoodturner

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Id: GrxCozastg8

Length: 12min 29sec (749 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2019