turnery
These articles refer to the practice of creating items from wood or other materials through the use of a lathe, a power tool which rotates materials rapidly allowing for rounding and other decorative features.
A new power tool, in this case a new lathe, is a cause for celebration and time to test the capacity and limits of the machine. Walk through …
Wood_Pens January 22, 2011 Acrylic Pen Blanks, Wood Lathe Tools, Wood Pen Blanks, Wood Pens, Wood Turning Home, Wood Turning Lathes, Wood Turning Supplies, Wood Turning Tools, Wood Turning Wood, Woodturning Materials From the rough beginnings of cutting and drilling blanks to the final finishing steps using special Australian shellac, this post will give you the step by step run down …
Any tool that claims to make the process of rough cutting a bowl "easy" has to be suspect. I had read the hype from the maker as well …
I have described various bowls and the woods they are made from in different posts over time, but this is the first time in which I intentionally describe and …
Guest Authored By: Steve Staley Recently, I made two natural edged bowls from very different woods and had very different experiences and results as a consequence. The process of …
Waterfall pattern bubinga is a rare and beautiful wood that I had the opportunity to work with in making a platter recently. The wood was beautiful even if …
From the disastrously bad beginnings to the more recent freighting of over 100 pounds of turning wood across the nation by air, this post discusses the process by which …