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After last week’s experience with eccentric turning, aka scary turning, I needed to turn yet another. This time with a couple of improvements.

One improvement was to have end plugs. Each plug has a tenon that fits the hole for either the metal cup or the ballast hole. On the other side, are holes for the centers to seat in. These hole give more stability to the skewed seat of the drive and live centers. These center tend to jump out due to the angles involved. With the plug there are more stable.

The second improvement was a shop-made measuring jig. A pair of dowels run between two ends designed to seat on the tenon I cut on the project spindle. A center dowel can be positionned anywhere on the dowels to measure depth of cut relative to previous settings.

In this project, three additional axes are used. All are offset from the center out to about 3/8″ in from the edge. One end is also twisted about 60 degrees.

This butternut candlestick is about 8″ tall and 2″ diameter, finished with walnut oil and buffed. A metal cup protects the wood from candle flame.

I will show the candle in next week’s video.

Enjoy!