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    Tips & Techniques

    Jul 03, 2018 3 minutes
    Illustrator: Becky Kralicek

    Spray Turntable

    Recently, after building a bunch of gifts from a Woodsmith plan, I was looking for a way to quickly and efficiently finish them. That’s when I came up with the idea for the simple finishing turntable you see here.

    The turntable is made up of a base and a platform, both made from two layers of plywood. A carriage bolt passes through a counterbored hole in the base and is held in place with a hex nut and

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