Hello again friends of Borouz Woodworking as well as Wolf Studios! Sorry for the lack of a post last week, I had become busy with travels so I was unable to make one.
Now that I am back however I wanted to give a little view on one of the old, old, old projects that I had worked on when I was younger that I had forgotten about.
Back when I was younger and newer to woodworking one of the old projects I had done was with making a paperclip holder using a cap of wood and base of wood with a strong magnet inside of the cap to hold some paperclips.
Editors note: This was project was part of an art class. Sam’s dad brought the small lathe and tools in and each member of the class had one on one time turning their own paperclip holder. This was in 2014 so all the students would have been around 9 – 11 years old. To say that the parents were a little bit concerned when they saw power tools like that coming into the classroom and their kids operating “adult” sized tools would be putting it mildly. The kids had a blast, Bill had a few more grey hairs by the end of the day, and everybody went home with a pretty cool wood turning project.
It was a pretty basic project and one that was fun to make, however it wasn’t something that I had finished back then.
We’ve recently actually found this which inspired the post and I’m planning on actually finishing it and putting it to some use.
Editors note: If you look closely at the above pictures you will notice that they have not been sanded smooth. When I say they are rough I mean you could use them to rub paint off your wall. There will be a follow-up post on this. How to chuck it up so that it can be sanded and how the finish is applied. The class used a poly to finish them while they were still on the lathe. Have you ever heard the saying, “The Cobblers kids had no shoes?” Well this is an example of that. We were running out of time in the class to get everyone’s projects finished so Sam’s was brought home to finish. The life happened and it got forgotten. That is until just this past week when the lathe area was getting organized and all the boxes were pulled out and emptied.
