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I've been turning a bunch of small items for a few upcoming crafts fairs. Keeping the price point under $20. and choosing things that can be made quickly and still look nice.

One thing is little lidded boxes, some completely out of wood and others made from heavy cardboard tubes wrapped in decorative bark or paper, with a small disk set into the bottom and a decorative turned wooden lid.

I made a jig for the band saw and I can cut a disk in about 10 seconds, gluing the paper to the tube takes about a minute or two, the turned lids from rough blank to polished finish take about 10 minutes.

Pics to follow.

Anyway, last night I smell smoke and think the boiler has blown back. I check it out and it's not even running. I look out the window to see if a neighbor is getting some late season grilling on, nope. But I do see smoke. I shut off the lathe and the dust collector and see a nice blue plume of smoke coming from my motor.

I attach the dust collector to it and run it for a while to cool it off. This morning I took the motor outside and blasted it with compressed air. The finest sanding wood dust was everywhere in that thing.

It still runs, not sure if it will smoke again, but now I am going to build a cover for it and always use dust collector when sanding.

Here's a coffee scoop. My first attempt, took about 45 minutes to learn, second one was about 30 min. I think I can get it down to 15-20,