New Articles
Flower Petals by Bill Tilson
(PDF)
Other Articles in
Alphabetical Order
209 Finish - A guide to finishing
with Minwax 209, by Luna Ford (HTML)
Bowl Sanding Tool,
UPDATED by
Mack DeBose (HTML)
Bread and Butter Items, by Bill Tilson
(PDF)
Buffing, by Jack Hanley
(PDF)
Classic Finishing
Techniques - Mixing tung oil or boiled linseed oil, and
spar varnish, thinned with turpentine, mineral spirits or denatured
alcohol, by Boyce Gahagan (HTML)
Cyanoacrylate Glue -
Useful information about the handling and use of CA glue, by
Bruce Hoover - Tidewater Turners (HTML)
Click on this link
for Demonstrator Handouts from the 2006 SWAT Symposium
Drying Wood to
Get Round Bowls (three articles and a sketch, by Marty Kaminsky)
Round is Good (HTML)
Drying Box Building and Assembly Instructions (HTML)
Drying Box
Dimensions (HTML)
Drying Box
Construction Sketch (.jpg file)
Finishing with Waterlox, by Andy
Chen (PDF)
Guide to Bowl Making
- A complete guide with pictures on how to make a bowl from a blank,
by Brian Laing (PDF)
Homemade Boring Bars - A
brief guide on how to make your own hollow turning tools, by
Murray Powell with Luna Ford (PDF)
Inside-Out
Ornaments -
How
to make inside-out ornaments, by Don Fluker (PDF)
Lacquer Finish by Kendall
Westbrook (Word Document)
Lacquer Sanding Sealer
- Using lacquer sanding sealer as an undercoat, by Thomas Irven
(PDF)
Making a
Veneer Wrapped Turned Box by Bill Tilson (Word
document)
Making Sanding Disks from Sheet Sandpaper, by Mack DeBose
(PDF)
Materials List for Folding Light Rig, by Marty Kaminsky
(PDF)
Natural Edge Bowls,
by Tom Orton (PDF)
Powermatic 3520A - An
in-depth product evaluation, by Mack DeBose (PDF)
Photographing
Turnings, by Marty Kaminsky (PDF)
Reversing Switch for Jet Variable Speed Mini Lathe, by Mack DeBose (PDF)
Stamp Holder, by Tom Sayre
Steadyrest - A guide to
constructing a shop-built steady rest for thin turning, by Tom
Enloe(PDF)
Turning a 10"
Peppermill, by Bill Pottorf (Word Document)
Turning
Christmas
Ornaments by
Janice Levi
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3 (all JPG files)
Three-sided,
Twisted Box, by Stacy Hager
(PDF)
Turning Spheres and Balls, by Bill Tilson (PDF)
Turning Platters - A
complete guide with pictures on how to turn platters, by Marty
Kaminsky (PDF)
Wobble Chuck - A guide on how to
build a simple chuck to hold and rotate small turning blanks, by
Bill Berry (PDF)
Wine Bottle Stoppers,
by Larry Brown (PDF)
Woodturning--What
you Need, by Marty Kaminsky (PDF)
