Tag: woodturning in maine

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...

Whiskey and Bog Oak?

Recently I made eight Katahdin ballpoint pens all from Oak. So what is so special about that, you ask. Well, six of them were made from barrel staves from whiskey barrels. And the other two? Those two were made from ancient bog oak from eastern Europe. The bog oak...

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...

Unique just for you

Every product we provide is unique. They may have a style or shape in common with one another but no two trees are alike and neither are our products. If you want something that only you have, you’re in the right place! If you see something you like, snatch...

Graduation Gift Time

Let the graduate in your life know how special they are with a Dailey Woodworking pen or pen/pencil set! Just because graduations are being postponed, doesn’t mean the achievement is! Our pens are able to be refilled so that your favorite graduate won’t have to search for a new...

May Flowers – Limited Edition Haynes Mill

With all the dreariness going on in the world right now, I thought I would add some much needed color. Meet the limited edition 8 inch Haynes pepper mill made in May Flowers laminated Birch veneer. The colors are Natural, Pink, Turquoise and Yellow which repeat over and over....