Turn a Wood Elf - a Basic Midi Lathe Project
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- I show how to turn a wood elf ornament on your wood lathe! This a fast and fun beginner project and can be turned without a scroll chuck using techniques I will demonstrate. These are also referred to as Swedish gnomes or gonks and can be a great Christmas project!
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Mike makes like it like a Bob Ross painting show 😀
If I only had his hair!😂
That is one of the best videos òn this subject i have seen. Super light and informative. I will be watching for moor
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice video. Great explanations on various techniques.
Thank you!
Great video Mike for teaching us ways to make these Gnomes and the many different ways to chuck up the wood for turning.
Glad you enjoyed it
Cute little dwarfs Mike, love em 😁👍🏼👏
Thanks 👍 More on this Friday.
very cute and creative, kind of reminds me of zz top as a woodworking band
Thank you! Cheers!
Pretty cool little project!
I was a little early to catch the video you talked about on Facebook, but I'm glad I saw this one instead! What a great project. I'm a real novice when it comes to using HSS tools and something like this seems like a great start. If the body doesn't come out perfect, that's ok on this one. Thanks for sharing and I can't wait for Friday's gnome video.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have decided to release the next video tomorrow about 10am instead of waitng till Fri.
Great instructions thanks would have been nice to learn the bent hats
good work Mike,great idea for me to practice tool working
thank you ,Mike,for the great tips to chuck up those litle pieces,i go to try these out tomorrow!i like to make litle funny projects!grtngs!
Sounds great! Have fun!
These are super cute. I’m a newbie to turning, you’re a great teacher. I enjoy watching your vids, you have a tonne of useful info on them.
Thinking I’m going to give one of these a whirl. Cheers from down under 🇦🇺
Thank you so much, mate!
They are really funny, will make great gifts. Thanks Mike.
Glad you like them!
Great tips Mike thanks for your time and Expertise
Thanks for watching!
What a great project Mike. Thanks for sharing! V... Almost forgot. My favorite has to be the one in the top hat. Definitely cool!
Thanks a bunch!
when it comes to noses for snowmen and gnomes I used to just pop the chuck out of my drillpress and slip it into my lathe do a batch of noses and pipes then pop it back in the drill press, then I got lucky and found a rusty jacobs chuck at a swapmeet for five bucks
$5 sounds like a bargain. Nice to get lucky once in a while.
Mike, this is great! My two granddaughters are going to love these.
Time flies. How are old are they now, Rick?
Almost five years old now. Thank goodness they're not quite old enough to have been in school.
That sure is inspiring, my brother-in-law has a red beard a foot and a half long and hair to match it so the next step is to find some fur and get started. His 20 y.o. daughter agrees with me that it´s not beard, but the hairs in his nose and ears trying to get as far away from him as possible, however that doesn´t change the upcoming gift. Thanks for posting!
Thanks. Check out the newer video as well.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Done!
Thanks Mike I will try this project for sure
Go for it!
Awesome project
Glad you like it!
Some great tips thanks Mike!
You bet!
really nice project Mike.
Glad you like it
Appreciated the great tips you have a blessed day
Thank you! You too!
A hollow punch will easily put a hole in the fur. Harbor Freight has sets of several sizes for a low price.
Excellent and very clever thank you 👌👌👌👌
Most welcome 😊
Thanks for the inspiration, Mike.
To drill a hole in soft material like this fur or leather or any other, I tend to clamp it firmly between 2 pieces of scrap wood and I drill through. That holds properly the piece and as it is held on the entrance and on the exit of the hole, I get quite a nice round edge to my hole.
Great tip! I will try that on my next one.
I have a set of hollow punches. I think I'll try them for this project.
Fun project!
In deed.
Thanks for your excellent instruction and tips, Mike. I got the faux fir at Joanne's. I like the bent hats and other variations, too.
Glad to help! Thanks for sharing another source.
This is how i put the fur on. I dont glue the nose in before the fur. Put a dowel in the hole but do not glue it. Make a small slit at the half way point on the fur about 15 mm long. Glue the fur making sure you do not get any glue on the dowel. When you have the fur glued in place take out the dowel and glue in the nose.
Thanks for sharing your tip! Merry Christmas,
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Elftastic Mike,
For accurate cutting of the fur, I make a paper template to fit exactly, transfer to the back of the fur and mark out using a sharpie. Handy for production work (assuming you are repeating the same elf style of course!)
Thanks for the videos, very inspiring,
Kind Regards,
Steve
Great tip!
Loved your video. I addressed my problem with glue guns 3 years ago. Amazon has a 300 W /150 W switch.. Brand is AL $39. Has off on switch very quick heat up. I do large glue blocks for finishing extra large bowls and née a fast deposit gun.
Wow that is a lot of heat! I did not know they had those. The next one has some great tips on this project so stay tuned.
Very handy “ how to”, Mike. Might just make a few this year. I have lots of maple scraps to use up.
Go for it, Valerie. I will have some more info in a followup video this week.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Sounds good, Mike. Maybe some seasonal color, too?
Was just thinking about making one this weekend, great timing. Regarding the fur, I told my golden retriever I finally found a use for all the dog hair on the floor. He gave me a concerned look and walked away slowly...
Ummm. Funny how dogs sometimes know what we are thinking.
Watch this video with a better version of the wood elf, gnome or Nordic Nisse. th-cam.com/video/57Wsu5NxTPc/w-d-xo.html I found Aleenes tacky glue to work better then hot glue. amzn.to/3EHeXiP
Great job Mike, I will give it a try. I will try a leather punch for the hole for the nose, I think that may work...Thanks for sharing.
Did it work? I found cutting a small notch as recommended by one of the viewers is the easiest approach but I don't have a leathe punch.
Hi Mike you can cut a round hole in the beard fabric with a round hole punch sharpened on the sander then a couple twists of the wrist on a block and presto! Thanks for all the videos stay safe
Great tip!
Cute lil fella's!
Thanks, Bob. I think I will do a followup video next week based on additional research and comments.
Hi ho Mike, your wood elf makes me think of Nordic Nisse. Take a look, I’ve got to make some.
Thanks for that. You are right. I will have to get some white fur and color some hats red.
Those look great Mike, I turn gnomes almost the same way, they are popular. For 2020 I will put covid masks on some of them just for safety.
Too funny!
What an adorable little project. Looks like some folks in the family just might be getting some of these this Christmas if I can source the faux fur I'd like to use. Thanks for all of the options on holding the various bits, that will prove usefull on more than just these little elves, I'm sure. I am left wondering, however, how many will view this video and sit wondering how you did the bent hat.
Let me proffer one possible solution...
Use some sort of saw and cut the hat at half the angle at which you want the final bend to be, turn the upper piece of the hat 180 degrees and glue it back on with CA glue (use accelerator if you have it). Sand if there is any evident residues. Then finish/paint the wood, and let dry, as you like before attaching the faux fur.
Thanks. You said in just a few words what whould have made the video too long for me to show. I use my fairly recent band saw jig so I can just thread on a chuck when I am read to cut. I found about a 45 degree angle works for me.
same talking like BOB ROSS and btw same good work as BOB ROSS thumbs up
Wow, thanks
Hey Mike! Thanks. You mentioned "sanding butter" but I'm not seeing the info. I'd love to learn more. THANKS! You've taught me much.
There was an I icon that provided a link. But here is a direct link to making your own. th-cam.com/video/snu6IO2qckc/w-d-xo.html
Great job, Mike. Thanks for sharing. Would another quick and simple option for turning the nose be using a drill press? Be safe.
Lathe is easier. 😁
My tip is ......to watch Mike Peace channel !!! .greeting from Adelade AUSTRALIA
Thanks, mate.
These look great! I'm thinking about making some gnomes myself. I really like the floppy, bent hat that you made!
Edit: Also just gonna say, if my mom saw someone call a gnome an elf she would be very angry. She's a passionate gnome enthusiast... :P
They are easy and fun. The hardest part is getting to the store to buy a 1/4 yard of faux fur.
Thanks Mike for your informative video. I got a bunch of little hardwood scraps laying around that I was going to begin gluing up and makign little trinkets out of. Gnomes and succulent planters are on my radar. But at the end for the fur glue up, did you smather the hot glue over the backside of fur and then press on the wood?
Yes, but I have since switched to Aleenes tacky glue as shown here. amzn.to/3EHeXiP I also found it at the Dollar Tree.
Really beautiful work, Mike! They look great! 😃
I just hope they don't reproduce like Tribbles. 😬
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks, you too!
It's been a hairy year, so these are appropriate to the times :)
As a newbie turner, this looks even easier than the Christmas trees (or at least, I can hide more flaws). For the hole in the fur, you can also fold the hair in half (fur side in), and use the tip of your scissors to make two nicks (like an X shape).
Thank you so much for these videos!
Only problem is that now I can't decide which ones to make. Maybe I'll try several of each.
Thanks for your tip with the scissors! It is better than cutting an X witha razor knife.
mike, an inexpensive source of fur are dog toys sold at Petco, or Pet smart. The fur is a little over an inch long and white on the bottom and a med brown on top. it looks like at least 12 cuts per side.
Thanks for sharing. I now have enough faux fur so it will probably be in my estate sale one of these days.
Lovely. Where can you buy those collet chucks please?
Check my Amazon store link in the show notes. I got mine a 1 1/4" x8tpi from Crafts Supplies. Penn State sells on for 1"x8tpi. There is also the more expensive Beall collet chuck from a number of vendors.
Braw wee hairy guys. Look like a few o the scotsman here, no getting our hair cut due to Covid issues. Keep safe and well Mike.
I am back to almost regular haircuts. Register on line and in with no waiting. I wear a mask as does the lady who cuts my hair.
Aye I can do that here as well but kind of like the off the shoulder half way down my back look now :-)
Hey Mike you mentioned earlier some sort of sanding paste to help eliminate the tooling marks. Do you have a link or name of that paste you mentioned. I didn't see it in your Amazon Associate page. Thx.
John, go to my YT home page and do a search on my videos for sanding.
Hi, can you give me details of the collet chuck you showed, I couldnt find your link, Mick
New collet video tomorrow.
Thank you Mike, you always have nice ideas and creative solutions :)
Greetings and love from Sweden from a
" real swedish gnome"
:)
Thank you very much! I will add more material in next video re: a Nisse or Nordic Gnome which I just discovered.
It may help us newbies to know what speed you are turning...thx
Probably 1800-2400. I slow down to about 1000 when parting off.
The one on the left kind of looks like my Uncle Stinos!
Too funny!
They look like captain caveman!
That is a good one!
Nice. If you are making a lot you can by a bag of wooden balls for very few dollars on Amazon.
That is a thought. Thanks for sharing.
Great little project. The faux fur I just got from ebay is a little too realistic. It's shedding!
Oh no! I fond that a toothbrush is a great faux fur hair brush.
Watching this, I have to wonder if there is an easy way to put shoes on these elves. What I would want is to have the toes of the shoes sticking out from under the fur on the front of the gnome, just long enough to be seen, and maybe 1/8" high. I can't visualize how to do that "fast and easy", but it would be cute if it was done, I think.
Thanks for the idea of feet! Fast and easy? Umm. I have a couple of possibilities. I will try them out next time I make some. One is to turn a larger ring base and carve/ sand away what is not needed with a dremel too. The other would be a split turning with a paper joint and then glue them to the bottom.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Remember, I get royalties on the idea. If you get rich on it, you owe me a cup of coffee. :)
Oh, and if you do it at all, I would love to see a video on it. :)
@@MikePeaceWoodturning I have another idea for a project that would use an inside-out ornament. It would be heavy so it could not be hung on a tree, and it uses electronics too. The idea is this: You rough out a nice ornament and finish the inside part and get ready to turn the outside part. But before you do you pot it in epoxy resin. But here is the twist: you mount a little WS2812b (or two) inside the ornament and then put enough additive in the epoxy to make it just a little translucent. Then you turn it so that all you see is nice wood and epoxy. The attach it to a tiny microcontroller (Arduino-type) and have the LED's light up and shift colors. It might look very nice on your mantel or shelf, and the electronics could be hidden inside the base.
I think this might be a fun and productive collaboration.
@@flingmonkey5494 I will leave that to you. I don't do resin. At least for now.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Ah, and the unfortunate part is that I do not do wood-turning, yet. I am living far from home, renting a room, and I do not have access to my tools. Worse yet, I don't have a lathe yet. But I do have the ability to do the electronics and the programming, I am sure my company would let me solder in their lab and I can program at home. I have already seen that I can do interesting things with electronics, LEDs, and epoxy resin. I am now thinking of adding wood-turning to the mix of skills. I think it would have fabulous results. I have seen projects on TH-cam that mix wood-turning and epoxy, what if I add colorful LEDs? I won't push you if you are not interested, but I think it might be cool.
Within a year I hope to have a new house and a new shop and the ability to purchase and use new tools (I really need a new table saw.) At that point a lathe is certainly a possibility. :)
I prefer just making a beard instead having a full body of fuzz, I also make them a bit better fed (large bellies). One tip for the budget conscious, I found it much cheaper to buy a faux fur pet bed at $15 and cut it up rather than buying faux fur fabric, it can be a bit expensive at $40 - $80 per square.
Good tips. I found some gnome videos today that use smaller beards and I agree with you. I found the faux fur at Hobby Lobby for about $17-$22 per yard and you can buy as little as a quarter yard. I am going to buy some white faux fur.
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Santa Clauses! 😉👍
The one you drilled all the way through, make two noses, call it a politician.....
😂😂😂
you did not add the fur
I don't understand. You did watch the whole video, right?
@@MikePeaceWoodturning Maybe not. I turned oi off when you said leave feedback which you usually do at the end
@@allynwasser4566 I almost missed it too!
Thanks for this video. I'm going to make a few of these before Christmas 🎄