Dad gave me the lathe and the small trailer in July 2017 as his eyesight had deteriorated. My daughter was three and had just started pre-school, and I had changed to a 32 hour week with Wednesdays off, so I would drop her off, get an hour or so in the garage, pick her up, then we would go swimming. It took me a month of Wednesdays to get the lathe bench built and the lathe installed (see the Workshop area of the site) and then it pretty much sat there gathering dust. One July a couple of years later Mum said she needed a new honey dipper. I got a cheap one from Amazon to look at (pretty rubbish!) and looked at the one I have made by Dad in a honey pot made by Mum. I made a few, finding that the legs of an old stool which were 30 mm beech square stock were easiest to turn. I tried to make each one a slightly different design because who wants a hand made honey dipper which looks like everyone else's? In the YouTube short the honey came from the same friend who I made the goose egg cups for, Dave at Rykneld Apiaries, and is from Toad Hole Furnace about a mile from Mum and Dad.
YouTube: honeydippers video
