W.Y.
Member
In a two page discussion on my site a member was showing how he made an ice cream scoop by using the chrome metal part and a turned handle by getting a scoop from the dollar store and smashing the plastic handle off and turning a wooden one to replace it.
I went to the dollar stores around here yesterday and they did not have any of the metal scoops but they had the wider style ice cream scoop in plastic and the plastic handle was all molded on as one piece. The handle was hollow. I turned it off on my lathe and drilled a hole and epoxied a wooden dowel into the scoop part. .
Next time I am over the border in USA , I will try to find some of the metal scoops at the dollar stores .
This is yet another example of just one of the many things that can be made on a lathe. Items like this sell like hotcakes at craft sales . It costs a dollar and a stick of firewood and will sell easily for $10.00 just because it is hand crafted.
Comments and/or critiques welcome
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The dowel epoxied into the handle makes for a very strong connection between the two pieces.
I went to the dollar stores around here yesterday and they did not have any of the metal scoops but they had the wider style ice cream scoop in plastic and the plastic handle was all molded on as one piece. The handle was hollow. I turned it off on my lathe and drilled a hole and epoxied a wooden dowel into the scoop part. .
Next time I am over the border in USA , I will try to find some of the metal scoops at the dollar stores .
This is yet another example of just one of the many things that can be made on a lathe. Items like this sell like hotcakes at craft sales . It costs a dollar and a stick of firewood and will sell easily for $10.00 just because it is hand crafted.
Comments and/or critiques welcome
From this
To This
To This
The dowel epoxied into the handle makes for a very strong connection between the two pieces.
