The lightbulb finally goes on.
As I get older I realize that I need more light to see what I’m working on. I’ve been looking around for a light that was more than just a spot light to better help me see my work on the lathe. Last fall when I was teaching bowl...
The New Boss
We have a new Boss here at Dailey Woodworking. Our new Boss laser, that is. The laser came in on November 24th and it took six of us to get it out of the back of the moving van and into our house. It is a beast and weighs...
A custom pen for me
Each year I make a few hundred custom pens for people all over the world. Customers contact me and tell me what they are looking for and I take it from there. We start out with the type of writing instrument that they want: ball point, roller ball or...
More wedding goblets
About a month ago I introduced wedding goblets to our line-up of products. This last week I turned my first set out of Cherry and I just wanted to show them to you. The photo isn’t the greatest because I took the picture in my shop with my phone....
Bowls for awards
Back in the spring I was contacted about making a series of shallow bowls to be used as awards for a tennis tournament. We ironed out the details and just had to wait and see if the rules in our state would allow the tournament to take place in...
Messiest workshop ever?
I shot the following video at the end of June, 2020. It shows my workshop in total disarray. There is no easy way of wording it, my shop is a mess! Messiest evah? That’s Maineah for messiest ever. This didn’t happen overnight, I’ve been working almost 25 years to...
Custom Bottle Openers
A couple weeks before Father’s Day I was asked to make some custom acrylic handled bottle openers. Not a problem, I can do this and the primary color was to be orange. Once a again not a problem or so I thought. I decided that a good secondary color...
Making a bowl from a log – Part 1
The Curly Maple log pictured below is 42 inches across horizontally and about 35 inches vertically. The chain saw sitting on top of the log has a 36 inch bar on it and right behind it you can see the helmet that I wear when cutting up a log. ...
The Dailey Grind blog is back!
I’ve decided to re-activate the Dailey Grind blog. This is going to be a work in progress for a little while. We are going to start it off in a big way. I’m going to go back to the roots of my turning. I taught myself how to turn...