Woodturning is the art of making wooden objects on the lathe. While I can`t claim to be an expert ”turner,” which is a profession unto itself, I know what a furniture maker must do to turn ...

If you plan on turning wood bowls, you may need a larger lathe than someone who simply wants to turn items on a spindle and make tool handles and salt and pepper shakers. Look for a lathe that is ...

Purchasing the best wood lathe for you can be intimidating ... you need to get started on a range of turning projects, with chisels and gouges for spindle work and a ⅜ inch gouge and scraper ...

Here is Alan Holland performing his craft: woodturning. He takes a big chunk of wood, spins it on a lathe and shaves and cuts it down into something much more detailed. It’s painstaking work but ...

Mini-lathes are designed to turn bowls, table legs, and posts, but they are much too large for turning ... wood blocks. He carved a head and tailstock from a 2 x 4 and sharpened and carved a ...

Over the past century, as demand for functional hand-turned wooden items — chair legs and back spindles ... There he found a wood-turning lathe. “Things on a lathe move fast — you don ...

Hidden in the basement of Mather, the studio provides a space for students to practice the art of woodturning. Here, budding woodturners use hand tools and a lathe, a machine that rotates wood ...

On exactly nobody’s list is this attachment that turns a waterjet cutter into a lathe, and with good reason ... uses an electric drill to rotate a wood blank between centers on the bed of ...