13 Things You Can Make With A Wood Lathe

[Odie]

MSN

I'll bet a few of the guys on here can add to this list.....!

spoon
bowl
rolling pin
candle holder
goblet
honey dipper
salt and pepper shakers
vase
furniture legs
pens
bracelet
lamp
chess pieces

=o=

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

MSN

I'll bet a few of the guys on here can add to this list.....!

spoon
bowl
rolling pin
candle holder
goblet
honey dipper
salt and pepper shakers
vase
furniture legs
pens
bracelet
lamp
chess pieces

=o=

Done all of those my additions are:
balusters
shrink boxes
cremation urns
Wooden nut and bolts
Tankard
spin tops
walking stick/canes
spinning wheel parts like bobbins, spokes & distaff
loom parts
Will have to think about it as I am sure there are others.

 

[Steve Tiedman]

-Custom dowels
-Gear shift knobs
-Drink coasters
-Components for pens and other similar items
-Table lamps
-Toys (yo-yo) and toy parts (wheels for wood cars)
-Handwheels for tools/machines
-Lace bobbins (oops, repeat from Don)
-Hats

Ahhh! I've got a few repeats here. You guys, quit taking my ideas!

 

[Daniel Bartlett]

sawdust

 

[Steve Tiedman]

sawdust

A coworker once handed me a few scraps of aromatic cedar, suggesting I could make something with it. The next Monday, I brought him a ziplock bag of cedar potpourri. (Shavings, no dust.)

 

[Tom Gall]

"Happiness" when turning!
Ornaments
Pendants & jewelry
Lids
Weed pots
and .....

 

[Wyatt Holm]

Tool handles
Fish Bopper
Carving Mallet
Box
Platter

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Shavings

 

[Kevin Weir]

Baseball bats
Bowling pins

 

[Holmes Anderson]

Newel posts, quarter columns, finials, drawer pulls, bed posts, furniture legs, and chair parts

 

[hockenbery]

hollow form
Gavel
Whistle
Wand
Pool que
Spheres
Globes

Table tops
Napkin rings
Mouldings
picture frames
Drums
flutes
Sculptures
Nut cracker

The box folks are gonna be wondering why it took 7 trys to list one of the most popular items
I didn’t count “shrink box”

 

[Vincent Vogel]

You guys beat me to most things I've turned but here are a few more. Pepper mills and salt mills, handles for kitchen items/kits, end tables for living room and bedroom, bread knife (multi axis turning), saur kraut stomper, candle holders, bearings for farm tractor disc. I'll think of some more after I sign out.

 

[Webb Willmott]

Pipe, tobacco canister, and humidor.

 

[Mark Jundanian]

Beads of Courage box
Wig stand

 

[Ted Pelfrey]

Game calls

 

[Webb Willmott]

Billy club
Cane

If you can dream it, you can make it.

 

[Mark Hepburn]

Music boxes

 

[John K Jordan]

Make a new woodturner, change a life.
Can make someone happy on a good day.
Occasionally might make something that may not have been made before.
Can make an epic mess in any shop.
I am good at making tools shorter, not with a lathe but for a lathe.

 

[Lou Jacobs]

Sphere
(Whoops! Just saw Al already posted that)
Drop spindles

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

-Custom dowels
-Gear shift knobs
-Drink coasters
-Components for pens and other similar items
-Table lamps
-Toys (yo-yo) and toy parts (wheels for wood cars)
-Handwheels for tools/machines
-Lace bobbins (oops, repeat from Don)
-Hats

Ahhh! I've got a few repeats here. You guys, quit taking my ideas!

Yup I have done all of those too

 

[Paul Vechart]

Mushrooms
Saucers
Rings
Yarn bowl
Shot glass
Dice box
Clock

Sorry if I repeated any.

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Lace bobbins (oops, repeat from Don)

I was referring to bobbins for spinning wheels, but I learned to make lace bobbins when the MWA had a booth at St. Catherine's collage in St. Paul. The adjacent booth was some ladys demoing lace making and we started making bobbins for them. The lady's then gave me a piece of lace in exchange that I still have somewhere I think.

 

[Richard Coers]

toothpicks

 

[stu senator]

Round stuff.

 

[Steve Tiedman]

I was referring to bobbins for spinning wheels, but I learned to make lace bobbins when the MWA had a booth at St. Catherine's collage in St. Paul. The adjacent booth was some ladys demoing lace making and we started making bobbins for them. The lady's then gave me a piece of lace in exchange that I still have somewhere I think.

The summer of 1996, about 7-8 months as a woodturner having only made pens, a lady stopped at my farmer's market booth, where I was selling pens, and showed me a lace bobbin. A what? I was clueless about lace bobbins, and even more clueless to making them, but I agreed to make them. And boy, was I humbled, and I failed miserably, and I had to turn her down. There was no way I was going to match the craftsmanship of what she brought to me and asked if I could make for her.

A couple years later I made those lace bobbins in the form of a chess set.

 

[Doug Rasmussen]

You can make all sorts of items as mentioned in previous posts. About the only thing you can't make is a reasonable amount of money considering the required investment and the needed skills.