Woodturned Angels | Turn Christmas decorations from wood on your lathe

Turn Small Wooden Angels and Get Comfortable with Your Chisel

Turn these sweet wooden angels on your lathe, as woodturner Karsten Bonde Andersen, who is a woodturner at Linaa, shows you how to easily get started turning angels for Advent gifts, host gifts, DIY Christmas decorations, and more. They can be turned from various types of wood and finished in just as many different ways. No two angels will be alike, and the best part is that you can practice using your chisel while turning a wooden angel. Karsten himself makes it a habit to turn an angel throughout the year when he needs to fine-tune his use of the chisel. Therefore, turning a wooden angel is an excellent opportunity to get comfortable with your chisel. You will naturally work through both the pilling-cut and v-cut techniques when turning a wooden angel.

Techniques and Skills:

• Pilling-cut
• V-cut
• Get comfortable with a chisel

Materials You Will Need:

• Thin Superglue from Chestnut
• Superglue Accelerator from Chestnut
• Sandpaper
• Finishing Oil from Chestnut
• Wood Block

Tools You Will Need:

• Parting Tool
• Skew Chisel
• German Spindle Gouge 13mm
• Spindle Gouge GL7 - 13mm
• Diamond Point Tool 4.7mm
• Chisel GL9 25mm
• Collet Chuck
• Wood Lathe