Gifts from a woodturner (webinar video)
Jackie Toner shares design ideas, turning techniques, and tips to help you create thoughtful handmade gifts with confidence.
Wood Turning
Wood Turning, from Canadian Woodworking, shares practical tips and proven techniques to help you become a more knowledgeable and capable woodturner.
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The Perfect Sphere: A Well-Rounded Tool
Turning spheres free-hand is not easy. This jig makes the process easy and fun, and opens up a whole new world of artistic options on the lathe.
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Adding texture to a wood surface creates visual and physical interest. And since wood is a material that can be textured quite easily, and in many ways, it would almost be a crime not to give wood more of what it wants.
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Forget about expensive, complicated computer software; with a bit of practice this simple method will have you laying out a segmented turning in less time than it takes to sharpen your turning gauge.
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Preparing a Blank for Segmented Turning
At first thought, accurately making segments for a turned segmented bowl seems like a tedious and painful task. That’s not the case, because a special mitre sled simplifies cutting the parts, while some standard supplies and a simple approach are all you need to get the bowl blank assembled and ready for turning.
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There is a lot to know before you turn your first pen. Learn the terms, parts and tools associated with pen turning before you get started.
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Tips for the Novice Woodturner
These tips are bound to help you get the most out of your time at the lathe. Â
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If you're a novice turner, then like many other novice turners, it's likely you own a skew that rarely gets used.
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This article will help you get more use out of your gouges and rely less on your scrapers for shaping.
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Basic turning techniques for beginners
Turning can be very rewarding, but for the beginner, it can also be very frustrating. While you won't get any better if you don't practice, it is inevitable that practicing poor technique will inevitably lead to frustration.
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There are a number of ways to mount a turning blank on a lathe. We'll show you three of the most common.
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Vacuum chucking is used to hold a workpiece on a lathe, so that it can be turned or sanded. Vacuum chucking is particularly suitable for finishing off natural edge bowls and salad bowls.
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In addition to turning domestic and exotic woods, you can also turn alternate material and add them to your work to create unique, original pieces.
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Introduction to hollow turning
There are many forms and techniques for hollow turning and this introduction will only take a quick look at one of them.
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There are many skills and techniques involved in woodturning: skill with the tools and an eye for design are the first two that come to mind.
