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My wife happened to be looking through a magazine and showed me a picture of a craft project the magazine featured. It was a simple project that used two hardware store balls to make a bunny rabbit. She asked if I could make it. But I do not like to make crude projects. I had to upscale it.

My bunny has two different sized hand-turned spheres for the body and the head. I decided to make a small secret compartment in the body sphere.

Instead of a friction joint or a threaded joint from the opposite end of the joint spectrum, I used a bayonet style joint. With this joint, the bunny can be picked up from the head portion and will stay together. It also only take a simple 20 degree twist to separate. So it holds together when needed and comes apart when desired. These joints are available on my Etsy site referenced at the bottom of this page.

I turned two more spheres about 3/4 inch for feet and a tail. These had to be split in half.

The ears are a split turning. After the outer shape was formed, I split them apart, cut a wedge, and reglued the pieces back together at an angle. After the glued dried, I hollowed each ear and finished them.

Many small doses of epoxy holds everything together.

For more on turning a perfect sphere, please see
Woodturning Perfect Spheres – For Wise Turners

• Three bolts are sufficient – four bolts make tightening more difficult
• The bolt heads enter through the top plate and are held by t-nuts in the bottom plate.
• The bolt heads are recessed to protect my hands if I happened to lose track of where they are.
• A 3/4″ hole in the bottom plate received various custom centers to hold spheres or to center smaller objects.
• Inserts for the top plate allow for smaller vessels to be held with the same chuck.

I am ready for spring.

Enjoy!