Woodturning projects for unique items made by yourself

Woodturning is a demanding hobby that for many people becomes a meditative craft. With a woodturning project from the assortment in the Steinert Drechselzentrum Erzgebirge already first beginnings get a purposeful address for a finished, functioning product. With the Drechsel ideas, projects such as household helpers, jewelry and promotional items are effortlessly self-made.

Woodturning projects - blanks and kits for hobby woodturners

Woodturning blanks provide beginners and professionals with the perfect surface to work on. A pen blank made of walnut, olive, zebrano and in other wood looks is ideal for this purpose. Also good for round turning are banksia cones from the Tasmanian tree of the same name. Carving blanks in the form of pre-turned trees, animal slices or tree trunks make it easier for beginners to work on their first attractive woodturning projects. With a little more practice, carving pre-turned figures such as woodsman and woodswoman, mushroom woman and mushroom man, or hunter and miner is a wonderful way to familiarize yourself with materials, shapes, and proper carving technique. Professionals can use the blanks and kits to immediately implement small series as woodturning projects for club projects, the school bazaar from the student workshop or the next village market.

Woodturning projects for useful household gadgets

For useful and decorative household gadgets, shaving brushes, cheese knives, grinders and other kitchen utensils are ideal. The woodturning projects create suitable shafts of unique shape for them, arbitrarily in finely textured wood or blanks with root structure. The gadget attachments are as functional in the right stock as industrial comparables. Stainless steel as a blade is characterized by industrial quality corrosion resistance, long good sharpness and the possibility of resharpening. Other woodturning projects can be creatively implemented for letter openers, oil lamps, handles for handleless crochet hooks, drip trays or candle thorns.

Promotional woodturning projects: turned promotional items

Writing utensils such as ballpoint pens or rollerballs are uniquely refined as woodturning projects. With the meditative hobby, skilled DIYers conjure up promotional items for business associates, for company anniversaries or privately as a unique gift for a wedding, passed driver's license test or 18th birthday. Apart from the strong, personal touch of such handicraft, the turned wood also radiates a special warmth. With personalization, the woodturning projects also get the stamp of individual manufacturers, can be provided with dedications or make courage with a snappy, burned advertising slogan plus company logo. Matching Steinert offers in the assortment accessories for self-made wooden cases as well as devices for a personalization with brand painting.

Seasonal home accessories as woodturning projects

In the Ore Mountains, artistic woodworking has a centuries-old tradition, founded in the actual mining of miriquidi (dark forest) and served especially in the region of the Silver Ore Mountains miners to bridge the work-free winter months. To this day, carving and woodturning has survived seasonally for woodturning projects such as Raachermannl, Christmas pyramids, nutcrackers, angels and miners or tree candles as a private hobby and craft. Already children of the appropriate age create under parental guidance with candle accessories, incense accessories and pyramid accessories their own Advent story to touch.

Woodturning projects for fashionable and decorative woodturning jewelry

Finger rings made of wood? Such woodturning projects succeed with a kit of gold or stainless steel rings and the matching woodturning lathe in ever new variations, gladly also for distinctive and guaranteed unique wedding rings. Clamping nuts and mandrels for clamping the kits are available in the Steinert range for common ring sizes for ladies and gentlemen. Challenging, but also easy to implement for woodturning artists with little experience, are woodturning projects for watches. Matching various wood colors and structures, there are kits here with functioning clock movements in colors such as gold, silver, brass or color combinations. If you like it even more elaborate, you can also choose clock hands and dials individually and put everything together at the end of the woodturning projects to create a personal unique piece.

Advantages of individual woodturning projects

Homemade wooden arts are always welcome gifts among family, friends or business partners. In addition, Steinert items for woodturning projects offer these advantages:

• Pre-milled shapes ideal for beginners to get started in artistic woodworking
• Large selection of kits in various individual sets or as pre-assembled kits
• Variety ideal for woodturning lessons at creative meetings, for example, or carving and woodturning exercises in school handicraft lessons
• Stimulating ideas for beginners who do not yet have a precise idea for their woodturning projects
• Fast turning success already for children and teenagers due to high-quality raw forms