 Free Mushroom Keepsake Box plans - Limbs make wonderful material for smaller turning projects like boxes. The grain patterns revealed as you turn into the limb can be quite stunning and always unpredictable. For the two mushroom boxes pictured here, I used a Caragana limb. This is a fairly soft, yellow wood that will develop a deep luster. For a mushroom this size, I started with a limb about five inches long. I mounted the limb on the lathe between centers and turned a spigot on each end that I could grab with a 4-jaw chuck. Then I cut about 1/3 of the length off to form the top.
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