Christmas Icicle Ornament

Christmas decorations are always popular items to make either for yourself, to give away or to sell. These can be fun items to make on your lathe. How much detail you place on them is up to you, as well as the size of each one you make, not to mention colour, piercing and texturing. You can use each one separately or in a combination.

In this article, I have included a few more designs that you can make. Sometimes small pieces of timber are all you need for these. They can be made from a single piece or from several pieces of timber. Again, if you don’t like using paints to colour, then use contrasting timbers to add colour variations.

A point to remember here is the weight – if the decoration is too heavy and hung on a tree the branch may start to bend. This can be overcome by either using a lightweight timber, or by drilling the centre out and turning it thin. You also need to consider how you attach a loop of string