Woodturners gift ideas?

How about making a BIG (wood) bowl gouge? A member of our club made one....handle from Spanish cedar and the shaft from Southern Yellow Pine. Looked exactly like an Ellsworth Singature gouge, but it was almost 4ft long. Correct "grind" and all. He said it was for turning Jello.

Peter Teubel Milford, MA

If it's big enough - write date / event / club members sign it

one....handle from Spanish cedar and the shaft from Southern

almost 4ft long. Correct "grind" and all. He said it

Andrew, probably too late to make one today. I once made a 'special gift gag' handle for a cheap chisel by turning multiple zig-zags on multiple axes. Each zig a different color. The chisel edge was blunt and sported multiple angles. Arch

Fortiter,

Good idea guys. I made a small split-turning version of it for the club's AAW certificate frame just a month ago (skew and a gouge with a nice little sweptback grind I must say ). The split turning was so that they would glue well and look good on the frames border. Before I split them in half, I actually showed it to this leaving woodturner and he thought they were really just small gouges. I pulled them apart along the seam and showed him that they were all wood. He was surprised.

I used this great gold (for the brass ferrule) and silver (for the steel) "leafing" product. It's a wax and called Treasure Gold. I picked them up at Walmart in the crafts section. Just a little 1" round container. As you rub it on, a shine appears but the best part is that the silver takes on a great steel patina. It couldn't have looked more like brass and steel! Enough of the gushing over that....

Anyway, I just went out to the shop and made a big skew for him. He doesn't like skews. It'll make a good gift. The skew will give us more space to write on too. I'm leaving it unfinished so everybody at the club meeting tonight can sign it.

Thanks for the idea guys. Quick and simple to make,

- Andrew

one....handle from Spanish cedar and the shaft from Southern

almost 4ft long. Correct "grind" and all. He said it

A bent gouge - take some soft metal shape the end to look like a gouge and fit to a handle and bend the tool around in a loop.

Thats good.

... or cut a section out of an old gouge and replace it with a piece of rubber tubing. Present it as the latest trend in wood turning, a "flexible shaft" gouge.

-- Jack Novak Buffalo, NY - USA (Remove "SPAM" from email address to reply)

I once tied a rifle barrel in a knot. I have tied several screwdrivers in knots. I think a skew with a knot is do-able (use lots of heat.) You will have to start out with a piece of steel considerably longer than the finished length to allow for the knot.

The knot idea would have been good had I had more time. Good idea everybody! I went with the all-wood skew and had everybody sign it. He liked it.

- Andrew

Drill a hole in the wooden handle end of a gouge and glue in a power cord. Electric gouge.

Jeff

Jeff Loughridge wrote: Drill a hole in the wooden handle end of a gouge and glue in a power cord. Electric gouge. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ I remember an electric corn cob I saw once hanging up next to the porcelain potty.