When I was in high school, I took a ceramics class. One of the things I made was a dreidle, as in “I have a little dreidle, I made it out of clay.” It started out spinning on a potter’s wheel, and I always thought that was why it was a particularly good dreidle. The same way, I was expecting that dreidles made on a lathe should be particularly good at spinning, but from what I’ve done so far, you wouldn’t know it. Here are my three latest woodturning efforts, from last weekend.
I think these are all from beech wood, stuff that fell in our woods in Maine. Most of the fallen beech is soft or rotted (punky) in parts, and not all that easy to get a good chunk of turning stock out of. But mostly, let’s face it, I still need a lot of practice at this stuff.
Do they count as dreidles if they don’t have letters on them? That’s the least of my worries.