Latest Articles
Turning a
Simple Lidded Box, by Andy Chen
Pseudo-Segmented Christmas Ornament
- by Janice Levi
Bird House Ornaments - by Peter Miao
Finials for Ornaments - by Tom Enloe
Boxes by
Kirk DeHeer
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
Coring Bowl Blanks by Bill Pottorf (PDF file)
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)
Flower Petals by Bill Tilson
(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)
Laminated Turning Blanks (all PDF Files)
by Bill Kloepping of Hunt Valley
Woodturners
Advanced Laminations
Making Happy Face Laminations
Simple Scallop Edge Bowl
Swirly Demo
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)
Ornaments Overview,
by Bill Berry (Microsoft Powerpoint file)
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)
Segmented Turning
by Andy Chen
Basic Segmented
Turning (PDF)
Excel
Spreadsheet to Calculate Segment Length (.xls)
Stamp Holder, by Tom Sayre
Steadyrest - A guide to
constructing a shop-built steady rest for thin turning,
by Tom
Enloe (PDF)
The
Art of Finishing, by Paul
Coppinger, East Texas Woodturners (a Word Document)
Turning a 10"
Peppermill, by Bill Pottorf (Word Document)
Turning Backyard Pine
by Janice Levi (a Word Document)
Turning
Christmas
Ornaments by
Janice Levi
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3 (all JPG files)
Turning Fancy Boxes with Finials by Janice Levi (PDF)
Turning Finials, by
Janice Levi, (Microsoft Word Doc)
Turning Natural Edge, Thinned Stemmed Goblets from Green Wood
by Dennis Ford (PDF)
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)
