Wood-turner's Special:
Rock Maple Cylindrical Lamp Bases
8" tall
x 3/875" diam.
Ready to assemble with lamp hardware (not
supplied). Suggestions provided.
Use these as is - just sand and finish with
oil, lacquer, or paint. Much easier if you have a lathe and turning
skills. You can finish easily or create your own design from these
cylinders. Minor surface defects.
Price: $5 each.
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Wood-turner's Special: Make a Tall Lamp - Rock Maple Cylinder w. center channel for lamp hardware.
18" long x 3.5" diam.
True up and sand
or turn a decorative shape, then turn or machine a base to mount this
ready-to-wire lamp base.
The maple lamps above were turned 2-up from these
long cylinders. What else could you do with this? Make an LED lamp
for horizontal wall-mount?
Price: $10
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Woodturner's Special: Walnut hollow stacks for making
cylinders.
5" to 5.5" diam x 5." to 6" high,
3.5" i.d.
Quantity: 8 (some minor defects)
Price: $8 +/- depending on condition, quantity purchased
Glued up from drilled boards (below). They were converted into barrell
shapes with scraping techniques to accept porcelain inserts for mortar & pestle
sets.
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Drilled Black Walnut Boards for cylinders
5.5" sq x 3/4" thick, 1" hole for lathe mounting.
Quantity: 5
Price: $1/pc
5.5" sq x 1.375" thick, 3.5" diam. hole
Quantity: 7
For making the cylinders above.
Good dark heartwood Walnut. Many other uses - picture frames, for
example.
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Black Walnut drilled boards for cylinders, photo frames, etc.
4.375" wide x 1.375" thick, 4.375" length per hole
3"
diameter hole.
Quantity: 12 holes total = approx. 50 linear inches.
Price: $1 per hole or make offer.
Originally made for
glued cylinders for ceramic lined beer mugs. Directions available.
For more information, contact Ed Loewenton:
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Machined Maple Rounds or Dowels -
8.625" x 1.875"
Total
Available: 109 pieces
57 pieces machined,
turned, and sanded, with coves and flats, a few
w. radiused-dyed ends, few imperfects.
52 pieces
turned and sanded, with flats, no coves.
An additional few that are turned to diameter, rough, not sanded.
PRICES:
$1.50 - $2.50/pc depending on finish,
defects.
10 for $12.50 (half each kind)
20 for $20
These hard maple rounds were made in 1991 for a building block set
called Giant Steps.
Retail price in 1991
for set of 13 was $180.
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Suggested uses:
Toy airplaine fuselages, trains or trucks. Add wooden wheels, attach pieces for cabs, flat pieces for wings, etc.,
Use with red wheels (above) to make walking vehicle (directions provided with purchase).
Precisely made - these can be stacked on end several
feet high on a level surface.
The machining process employed a complex set-up of semi-automated
tracer lathe, table saw slicing jig to cut the flats, and drill press
jig to drill out the coves.
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Red Wooden Wheels, painted, drilled - 155 pcs.
Originally
made for a "walking vehicle" pull toy.
2.75" diameter x 1.375" thick.
4 Radial holes and axle hole are .5" diam.
Could be made into a
construction toy. Combine with maple rounds for wooden train cars,
walking vehicle. Basic design for walking vehicle available on
purchase. Many other uses, e.g.: kitchen drying rack or paper towel
holder.
$.90 each
$3.00/5 pieces
$5.00/10 pieces
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Pine Race Cars
Approximately 12" long x 3" wide,
solid, heavy (approx. 3 pounds). Multi-coat hand-dipped enamel is very
hard, durable. 1.5"-thick Cherry wheels spin freely so cars scoot
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Hollow Maple Disks - 3.125" diameter x 1.06" thick
Total Quantity: 87
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50 pcs sanded, radiused edges, with .5" hole:
* 37 pcs less finished, most with .25" hole:
* Few pcs w
machine defects, damage
Price: $3.00 Less in quantity
Made for a
teething rattle in 1992 (center bottom image). .25" hole was
drilled out to .5", hollow filled with BBs, dowel inserted and drilled
balls glued on ends.
Use for rattle, noisemaker, toy car wheels.
Suggested uses with purchase.
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ed@loewenton.org
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Rock Maple Rounds:
25" long x 3" diameter.
These turnings were to be
finished as baker's rolling pins, but a machining error left each with a
flat area.
Price:
$7 each
2 for $12.00
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If you have a lathe, you can make 2 front legs for a bench or
stool. Many other potential uses. The maple lumber alone is worth
more than the price.
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Cherry Panels - air-dried, unfinished
5" x 2.875" x 1/16"
Quantity: 470 (estimate - counted by weight)
Price: $.12/pc, make offer for lot
Made for a
construction toy.
Clean, sound cherry wood.
Suggested uses: Shingles for a doll house, decorative painting,
crafts, many others
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Woodturner's Special! Woodturnings - odd or experimental.
Put these on your lathe, turn something attractive, unique, or just strange. What do these look like in your mind?
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Pedestals on sticks:
Originally used for a craft show fixture for displaying lamps. Really
nice walnut and maple.
12"=18" overall length, plates 5" - 5.5"
d.
Quantity: 5
Price: $3 each.
Candlesticks??
Odd-shaped
Cherry turnings:
Trying to extend design ideas for turned lamp bases.
Our failures are interesting, and still have plenty of wood left for you
to chop away at.
Piece at left is 12"h x 7"d.
$5
Multi-center eccentric turning (r) is 16/4
block, 12" high.
Price: $5 each
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In 1990-1991, we made and shipped a quantity of shatter-resistant
Rock Maple and Plexiglass Crib Mirrors with lacquered, natural-finish solid hard maple
frames.
The design idea was that it should look just as good from
the back as from the front.
It was designed to hang
horizontally in a child's crib, or vertically on the wall. Retail price
in 1990 was $32.
The complete product consisted of 4 pieces: a wooden panel,
a breakage-resistant plexiglass insert, and 2 Velcro straps for
attaching the mirror to the bars of the crib.
Some also had a patented hanger for hanging the mirror verically on the
wall. Most for sale here have just a through hole for mounting on
wall.
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There are 3 types of items available for sale:
1. Complete assembled mirrors, including straps, ready to use in crib or on wall.
Quantity: 10
Price: $15 each, lot price negotiable
2. Wood panels only
Dimensions:
18 3/32" x 12 1/16" overall
9" x 16" relieved area, with slots for velcro attachments.
Relief
depth .25"
Quantities:
a)
2 each imperfect, with holes for plastic hangers
b) 14 each perfect, with thru-hole for hanging
c) 2 each perfect, with plastic hanger
Price: $6 each, lot price
negotiable
3. Plexiglass mirror inserts -
14 13/16" x 8 13/16"
Quantity: 12
Price: $3, lot price negotiable
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Suggested Uses:
* Use the plexi mirror inserts to make your own mirror.
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Assemble the wood panels and plexi pieces into complete mirrors.
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Use the wooden panels to make tiled trays or hot-serving boards. Fill
the relieved area with broken tile or glass pieces cemented with grout.
Install rubber feet on backside (bottom) of tray.
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Woodturner's Special:
White Oak Pedestals
Made for a craft show display in the
1970s from a solid white oak beam.
Finished with linseed oil.
Interesting grain, with checking, knots, a few dings.
17.5" h x
6", 6.25", and 6.25" diameter at bottom.
Price: $10 each, all 3 for $24
These are a bit dirty. Re-surfacing recommended. Use coarse sandpaper or
scraping to clean surface, possibly alter shape. Wood is extremely
hard, heavy.
Uses: 3-legged table (especially glass-top), lamps
(battery LED - end-grain drilling would be very difficult). What do you see in these?
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Carpenter's/Builder's Special!
Carved Column and Bases from Mexico
These were
hand-carved from logs in Mexico in the late 1970s. Species is some kind
of pine, judging from the smell of the soft wood. Most of the pieces we
had were made into a large dining table.
These pieces are rough, apparently
carved free-hand, and dimensions and squareness are approximate. Some
damage on base "B". They need a thorough cleaning from 38 years'
storage.
Some work needs to be done on all pieces to produce finished
items.
At right:
Base "B" (left) - 31.5"l x 9"w x
9.5"h
Price: $25
Base "A" (right) - 34"l x 9.5"w x 9.5"h
Price: $30
Column - 30"h x 9" sq (diam)
Price: $45
Lot price
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Top: Base "A"
Bottom: Base "B" |
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Wooden Game Boards
12" x 12" x 3/4" solid maple.
9 x 9 holes (81 total) fit 5/8" pegs -
a few red and blue
pegs available. All have lacquer sealer coat.
Made for a game called "Four Dragons"
(ages 12 up).
Instructions are still available.
Quantity: 12
Price: $4.00 Lot price
negotiable
Uses: Play "4 Dragons", invent your own game, or glue
marbles into the holes and make a trivet for hot dishes. What else can
you do with these?
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Wooden Game Boards
6" x 6" x 3/4" solid maple.
5 x 5 holes (25 total) fit 5/8" pegs - a few red and blue
pegs available. All have 2 coats of lacquer.
Made for a game called "Ntangle"
(ages 7-adult).
Instructions, packaging still available.
Quantity: 29
Price:
$2 Lot price negotiable
Uses: Play "Ntangle", invent your own game, or glue
marbles into the holes and make a trivet for hot dishes. What else can
you do with these?
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