Woodturned Christmas tree made of wood | Turn Christmas decorations on your wood lathe

Turn beautiful Christmas trees in different types of wood and designs

Want to learn how to turn Christmas trees on a lathe? Then you've come to the right DIY guide, where, with this beginner guide, you can learn how to turn a beautiful wooden Christmas tree as woodturner Karsten Bonde Andersen shows you the basic turning techniques to create a Christmas tree turned from wood. Turned Christmas trees don't have to be 100% identical, as a spruce tree in nature is not identical either. This gives you the opportunity to design your own turned Christmas tree, both in terms of size, wood type, and how many branches each individual turned Christmas tree should have. There are also endless possibilities using different surface treatments to create various designs of turned Christmas trees. If you get hooked on making turned Christmas decorations, you should check out our DIY Christmas decoration category.

Techniques and skills:

• From square block to round
• V-cut
• Design your own Christmas tree

Tools you will need:

• Runner & spindle runner
• Parting tool
• Diamond file
• Detail spindle gouge
• German spindle gouge
• Chisel
• Chuck
• Wood lathe