Steps of the turning process including selecting the correct tools, techniques and tool organization. Receive advice on every step of the turning process, including selecting the right lathe, basic safety and wood shop setup, an overview of the proper tools and how to use them, and the basics on sharpening, sanding, and finishing.
Designing pleasing wood turnings involve following
time honored woodturning design techniques. Learning these design rules
and applying them to you work will assure your pieces will be designed
as satisfying finished pieces. The elements of design are not only
important to the designer but also anyone dealing with a unique
situation, or even a unique piece of wood.
There a large number
of techniques used in turning, both when setting up turnings and when
actually making the projects. The more techniques you can learn the
more ways you have to making a pleasing turning. The techniques you
learn will not only enhance you pieces but will you explore other areas of woodturning.
Usually it is best to decide on the design you want to carve before you turn the bowl. Otherwise, you'll be surprised by how limited your design possibilities are. A thin completed bowl, for instance, will not allow you to make deep carvings on it. If you want to carve a decorative band, you'll probably want to leave a band of thicker wood to carve.
Tips are some other the world of technique. A Woodturning Tips might be a better way, or just a different way of handing a situation or it might be a better way of understanding your woodwork. Some tips are useful only in a specific situation but other may open up a new way of looking a your method of working.
The wood lathe is a complicate piece of equipment and
problems and issues will arise when using one. Being prepared for these
problem will keep them from growing.
Furniture turnings involve not only unique skills and
technique used specifically for these projects, but also have to be
clearly reproducible to make identical piece. Techniques that
reproduce simple replicas is often undesirable when making unique art
pieces, but when you have a need for four identical legs it clearly a
useful skill. These is a large number of techniques and process for
producing these piece, and an endless stream of new ideas and old
systems available for woodturners.
