Beginning Woodturning - Mounting the Wood

While it is obvious that wood is spun on the wood lathe and then shaped with various hand tools, it is less obvious how to mount the wood on to the lathe in the first place. A bit of observation and common sense can turn this into an easy and safe operation.

Wood is mounted to the lathe in either spindle or faceplate orientation. Spindle turning means the grain of the wood will run parallel to the ground while faceplate implies the grain runs perpendicular to the ground. While there can be variations on this theme, the beginner is advised to follow the scheme until sufficient practise is obtained to change it with safety.

Chair legs and rungs are almost always turned in spindle orientation for reasons of strength. The pieces that join the legs together are often called spindles, hence the use of the term in woodturning.

Most wood lathes come with a spur center for the headstock and a tail center for the tailstock. Each of these has a center point. Many tail centers have ball bearings and turn freely. Spur centers are surrounded by two, three or more spurs that engage the wood. Spindle stock is mounted between these centers. Be sure to place the centers into the appropriate head and tail stocks. Ensure they are seated so that the spurs engage the wood and make it turn. From time to time while turning, tighten the tailstock to keep the spurs working. They will try to bore their way into the wood somewhat like a drill bit.

Again, most wood lathes will come with a faceplate. Like spur and tail centers they are also readily available from a variety of after market suppliers. Just get one that fits the threads on your lathe. The larger the piece of wood that is to be turned, the larger the faceplate that may be required, however, it is rare for most home wood lathes to require a faceplate larger than six inches.

Faceplates are used to turn objects such as bowls, platters, vases and hollow forms. They are mounted to the wood with screws and number fourteen, self tapping, sheet metal screws are advised. These have deep threads that hold the work well and are extremely strong. Usually screws that allow the threads to go three quarter inches deep are sufficient for most turning but longer ones give more security if needed. Be sure that the wood surface to which the faceplate attaches is flat. This gives a great deal of the holding power of the faceplate.

While there are other means of mounting the wood such as dedicated chucks, glue blocks, and four jaw chucks, centers and faceplates will allow the beginning turner to mount wood to the lathe for a great many projects. The old time wood turners used just these to outfit homes and businesses with wood turned essentials and art work.

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The Other Woodturning Tools: More Than The Wood Lathe

When woodworkers begin tho think about taking up woodturning the first thing they consider is buying a lathe. This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to woodturning tools. Of course the cutting tools themselves, gouges, chisels, parting tools and so on need to be gotten but so are a few other tools which can be considered necessary for the craft. Thankfully, many of them are already in many home workshops.

Tools obviously need to be kept sharp whether they be lathe tools or plane irons. However, instead of an array of hones and whetstones, woodturners instead use tools straight from the grinder. While the typical shop grinder will work well it should be enhanced with aluminium oxide wheels. A course wheel on one side to shape tools and remove nicks is handy while a fine wheel of about eighty grit is good for sharpening. Wheel dressers will be needed to keep the wheels flat and clean. A sharpening jig is a great tool for new turners and old ones alike.

Wood needs to be gotten ready for the lathe. Especially when it comes to faceplate turning, blocks of wood are best mounted after being cut into disks. The band saw is the ideal tool for this. As green wood is often used for faceplate work, a course blade should be used such as three eighths with three teeth per inch. It is always a good idea to have extra blades on hand in case of breakage.

For getting larger blocks ready to mount, a chainsaw is a great tool. It is also one of the more dangerous tools to use and great care is needed. However, many bowl turners will be working straight from the log and a chainsaw is a necessity. Many turners will find an electric model satisfactory although it will be somewhat slower than many gas ones and of course requires a heavy cord.

The table saw is the mainstay of many flat woodworking shops and can be a great aid to the woodturner, especially for smaller projects or in the preparation of laminated work. While it is not used as much as is the band saw pen turners use it frequently for the preparation of blanks and turners of other small objects often turn to it for the preparation of production runs.

One of the most used tools in many woodworking shops is the electric drill. While it is often used for drilling holes, it is also used as a power driver for mounting faceplates and in particular by woodturners as a power sander. Small drill powered disks, usually padded, are faced with sandpaper and rotated in the opposite direction to the spinning wood. This greatly speeds up the sanding process, especially for faceplate work.

Other shop tools certainly come into play, especially when one considers the vast array of decorative opportunities which woodturning presents to carvers and the like. However, these are some of the most used by woodturners and should be considered when setting up the woodturning workshop, both for purposes of budgeting and for increasing the enjoyment of the craft.

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Woodworking And The Wood Lathe: Five Reasons That Woodworkers Can Easily Move Into Woodturning

Woodworkers can get into ruts but they also like to look for new challenges and opportunities to explore their personal relationship with wood. Getting a wood lathe and learning to use it open up a new dimension in woodworking. While many of the talents learnt in flat woodworking carry over to the round world of woodturning, new talents in the craft need to be developed, leading to new excitement in an old field.

First, while woodturners need extra tools other than a wood lathe and lathe tools, for many woodworkers this is a minor requirement. The other tools needed to prepare wood for the lathe are usually present in the form of band saws and table saws which are common for the woodworker's shop. Wood lathe tools need to be sharpened for use, but most woodworkers already have a tool grinder for the purpose of removing nicks from chisels and the like. This is easily transformed to lathe tool sharpener by replacing a grinder wheel with an inexpensive, aluminum oxide, fine grit wheel and making a sharpening jig.

Second, once the lathe is set up and ready and the tools sharpened, the question is what to turn. For many woodworkers this at first becomes an extension of flat woodworking. Making table legs allows for more individual expression than buying preturned ones from a catalogue or making them all straight lined from necessity. While there are many variations of cabinet knobs available in various materials, personal ones may be turned from wood, brass or plastics very easily on the wood lathe and many can be easily decorated. Small casework is easily decorated with escutcheons or finials.

Third, after the practise of turning parts for furniture and other casework, many woodworkers will move on to other types of woodturning. There are many ideas for wood turning projects available in magazines, books and the web. Many of these will already be in the possession of most woodworkers. Such projects range from candlesticks, tool handles and tea lights, to pens, bowls, vases and almost anything round. Some of these will need to glued up from several parts and once again the typical woodworker's abilities come into play with knowledge of jointing, clamping and gluing.

Fourth, an aspect that is sometimes overlooked as one contemplates woodworking in general is the acquiring of wood with which we work. For the majority of woodworkers this is a simple albeit expensive trip to the local lumber merchant. While this can also be of advantage to a woodturner, many prefer to start with a log section. This type of wood is generally much cheaper to get than prepared lumber and is often free. A chainsaw may be required but many woodworkers will already own one, either electric or gas powered.

Fifth and along the same lines is the question that many woodworkers have as to what to do with all the pretty offcuts of wood that accumulate in the home workshop? They are often too small to do anything with but too nice to throw out. Woodturners often made small items that will use up many small pieces or they glue them together to make segmented turnings. The woodworker's workshop with its jointer and planer can make this much easier than it is for many wood turners who do not have these tools.

Thus the acquisition of a wood lathe can open a new world of woodworking to the flat woodworker. Many of the already practised skills move easily to the wood lathe and wood preparation while the tools of the workshop prove to be greatly useful in the new part of the woodworking craft. Woodworking is done for fun and adding this new dimension will add greatly to the overall enjoyment.

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The Woodturning Lathe - Your Main Tool In Every Woodturning Project

What exactly is Woodturning?

Woodturning is an experience you can totally enjoy. It can definitely be a rewarding and an addictive experience as well. It is fulfilling in a sense that you have a finished product afterwards, or you can even do this for repairing your damaged furniture parts. The pleasure of making or repairing your own wood turned products is definitely yours to have. You did not just save a lot of money; you also gained experience and a new learning as well.

The Importance of the Woodturning Lathe:

One important thing you have to provide so that woodturning becomes possible is a woodturning lathe. Lathes have become more trendy as years passed by. Many people have discovered woodturning lathes that are more convenient and can absolutely provide high quality of finished product.

However, in trying to search for a woodturning lathe, you have to be very careful in selecting one and always choose the best lathe. Some of them might be overlooked and can give you frustration later. If the price might be too expensive for you, take it easy because you can still sell it later as a second hand.

There are Different Sizes:

Lathes, especially the ones manufactured today, come in various different sizes, from small pen lathes up to huge machines that turn bowls. They have been purposely designated in accordance to the greatest diameter of the material that is allowed to be swung over the top part of the bed. A lathe that is very much capable of turning a disk that has a diameter of eleven inches, is referred to as an 11-inch lathe.

The other dimensions that must be taken in to account are those with a center measurement. This determines the number that showcases the maximum length of the material needed, which, in turn, can be mounted in between the headstock and tailstock. Parts of a lathe may or may not include a leg or a stand. It functions as an elevator of the lathe bed to your desired working height.

Parts of the Woodturning Lathe:

Almost all types of lathes have a bed. One end of the bed is called the headstock. It contains high-precision spinning bearings. Further, headstock often contains parts to enable conversion of the motor speed into variety of spindle speeds. Another part is called the tailstock. It can be positioned at any part of the bed and therefore, it is usually referred to as the loose head. It has a barrel that slides in and out parallel to the axis of the bed, and directly in line with the headstock spindle.

In a metalworking lathe, a carriage with a saddle and apron is topped with a cross-slide. A cross-slide is a flat piece that is situated crosswise on the bed. Unlike a metalworking lathe, woodturning lathes do not have a cross-slide, but banjos. Same as cross-slide, banjos are placed crosswise on the bed. However, its position can be adjusted manually.

Types of Woodturning Lathes

Beginners Lathe (Mini Lathe): This type of lathe is actually one of the world's most famous choices for most beginners. It can be fitted in a limited space and can also be extended later if you desired to. One consideration you have to think before selecting your first wood turning lathe is the cast iron bed and cast iron headstock and tailstock. It should have a minimum of four speeds with the lowest being 500rpm or lower, and the highest being 2000rpm or higher. Lathes are better without those light sheet metal construction and those with spindle bearing at one end only.

Floor Lathe: This is a heavy duty lathe, floor mounted, bed is more rigid than any lighter models, and this is a machine for serious and advanced wood turners.

CNC Lathe: This type of lathe is usually used by industrial user rather than the beginners or for the hobbyist. Though it has the disadvantage of programming it really hard, this lathe is able to produce complicated designs.

Pen Lathe: Small specialized lathe, usually limited to maximum 2" swing, ideal for pen turning, or turning dollhouse objects, just like cups, pots, columns, plates, and vases. It can also be used for prototypes for railroad pieces (including power or sign posts) and doll or marionette limbs. Thousands of classical model building items may be turned with ease. Note that you will also need specialist accessory tools to match.

Additional Equipment:

Some of the additional pieces of equipment you have to prepare are sharpening equipment, set of tools such as skew chisel, spear chisel, round nose chisel, parting chisel and gouge, abrasives and safety equipment.

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Wood Lathe Safety: Five Things To Consider For Woodturning Workshops

Of all the power tools in the work shop, the wood lathe is one of the safest. This is still a powerful tool used with sharp tools and care is needed. Ultimately, safety is in the hands of the user. Here are a few safety tips to consider when turning wood.

One of the first things to look for is the general condition of the lathe itself. Many woodturners are amateurs who have only a few hours a week to spend in the workshop and wish to spend most of it at the lathe so that maintenance takes a back seat. Some time needs to be spent on such maintenance as sharpening spur centers, replacing bearings, making sure mounting nuts are secure, dressing the tool rest and so on. Before the lathe is turned on it should be checked to be sure that everything is tightened down and the wood will clear the tool rest as it rotates. Not only does it make the turning more enjoyable, it makes it safer.

While the condition of the lathe is important for safety, so is the condition of the wood turner. Fatigue causes accidents. A wood turner should be well rested and free of alcohol or drugs. All rings and other jewellery should be removed. It is all too easy for rotating wood to catch neck ties or other loose clothing and draw a turner into the lathe or for a caught piece of jewellery to rip off pieces of skin.

The height of the lathe should generally be set so that the center line of the turning will be at elbow height of the turner. This may vary a little with individuals because of varying ratios of arm to leg length, but it is a good working estimate. A height too great or too little easily causes back pain through undue hunching or stretching. Rubber mats on concrete floors also can be a big help in relieving back pain.

With the increase in artistic turning over the past few decades, more and more wood turners are mounting burls, spalted wood and wood with splits and voids in it, particularly in faceplate work. These pieces of wood tend to be fairly large and unbalanced. This sets up a lot of vibration in the lathe and can be inherently dangerous, especially as chunks of wood may fly off the lathe at high speeds if the lathe is turning too fast. Experience and slow speeds are essential in this type of turning.

There are various charts that are used to determine the speeds at which woods of various diameters are turned. These should be approached with caution as not all woods are of the same density and many have knots, hidden splits or other imperfections that will be aggravated by high speeds. It is best to start turning at a slow speed and increase as circumstances dictate.

There is no way to make working with power tools completely safe but a few simple precautions and common sense can make the woodturning workshop a safe place for a long time to come.

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Woodworking and wood lathe: five reasons that carpenters can easily move in lathe

Carpenters can get into ruts, but they also like to try new challenges and opportunities to explore their personal relationship with the wood. Getting a wood lathe and learn how to use it to open a new dimension in woodworking. While many of the talents learned in flat wood carry to the world round lathe, new talent in the craft must be developed, which leads to new emotions in an old field.

First, while Turners need additional tools other than a wood lathe and turning machine, for many people this is a requirement of minor. Other tools necessary to prepare the wood lathe are usually present in the form of saws and table saws for the Carpenter. Wood lathe tools need to be refined for use, but most carpenters already have a removal tool grinder Nick by chisels and similar. This is easily transformed for lathe Sharpener tool replacing a wheel grinder with an inexpensive, aluminum oxide, wheel of grana thin doing a jig grinding.

Secondly, once the lathe is set up and ready and sharp tools, the question is: what to spin. Many Joiners this one at first becomes an extension of the plain wood. Making the legs of the table allows you to purchase more individual expression preturned ones from a catalog or making them all lined up straight out of necessity. While there are many variations of Cabinet knobs are available in various materials, personal ones can be transformed from wood, brass or plastic very easily on the wood lathe and many can be easily patterned. Small Cabinet decorated with coats of arms is easily or finials.

Thirdly, after the practice of turning parts for furniture and other Cabinet, many woodworkers will move other types of lathe. There are many ideas for transforming the projects available in magazines, books and web. Many of these will already be in possession of most carpenters. Such a range of projects from candelabra, tool handles and tea lights, pens, bowls, vases and almost all around. Some of these will be pasted up by several parties and once typical Carpenter skills come into play with junction, knowledge capture and bonding.

Fourthly, an aspect that is sometimes overlooked as one contemplates the woodwork is in general the acquisition of wood with which we work. For most carpenters, this is a simple but expensive for local lumber merchant. While this may also be of benefit to a woodturner, many prefer to start with a section of the registry. This type of wood is generally much cheaper to get more prepared timber and is often free. A chainsaw can be requested, but many carpenters have already one, either electric or gas powered.

Fifth and along the same lines is the question that many carpenters have on what to do with all the clippings rather than wood that accumulate in the home? They are often too small to do anything with but too beautiful to throw out. Turners often made of small items that will use many small pieces or glue them together to make turnings segmented. Woodworker with his Workshop and jointer planer this can make it much easier than it is for many wood Turners who do not have these tools.

So the acquisition of a wood lathe can open a new world of woodwork for the Carpenter flat. Many of the skills practiced move easily to the wood lathe and preparation of wood, while the tools of the workshops prove to be very useful in the new craft of the wood. Wood processing is done for fun and adding this new dimension will increase significantly the overall enjoyment.

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Sharpening Woodturning Tools: Making Sense Of Grinder Wheels For Sharp Wood Lathe Tools

Getting a good edge on a wood lathe tool is one of the great difficulties for a beginning woodturner and an ongoing concern for intermediates and experts. While the grinder is the tool of choice for woodworkers sharpening tools for wood lathes, getting it set up with the correct wheels can be a confusing challenge. It need not be with a couple of simple steps.

First it is necessary to move in thinking of the grinder as a sharpener. Many people come to woodturning from general woodworking where the grinder is used to remove lots of metal in a hurry so as to grind away nicks and breaks in chisels, plane irons and the like. Water stones and honing implements are used for final edges. Woodturners move from the grinder to the wood. Most shop grinders are not set up for this and the problem is largely the wheels.

Thus the second consideration is to replace the grinder wheels. While it is agreed that since woodturners generally use high speed steel tools they should have aluminum oxide wheels, there is a lot of confusion in the catalogues as to what color wheel to get and what bond to have. The color reflects individual manufacturers attempts to make choosing between grades of their particular wheels and has little to do with other wheels on the market. Consideration then should be given to grit and bond.

The bond of a wheel refers to how friable the material is that holds the aluminum oxide together. More friable bonds allow the material to break away quickly thus leaving a sharp cutting and cooler grinding surface. Unfortunately, the most friable bonds manufacturers recommend for woodturners groove, pit and wear quickly requiring a lot of wheel dressing and expensive replacement. Thankfully, almost any aluminum oxide wheel generally available to the home market is sufficiently friable for good sharpening with good wear so making sense of the friable numbers of bonds is not necessary. Just get a good wheel.

Third is consideration of the grit. While it may encourage argument, a good setup is a fast cutting wheel of about 46 grit on one side of the grinder and a sharpening wheel of eighty to one hundred on the other. With a good jig especially, this will meet all the shaping and sharpening needs of the woodturning shop.

Simply put, a couple of inexpensive aluminum oxide wheels of appropriate grit will give a lot of sharpening satisfaction and help to make a lot of shavings for a long time to come. Keep it simple and keep it fun.

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Woodturning Tips - Dyes, Coloring Wood For Dramatic Effects

Overview

One of the more popular ways to enhance the visual look of a woodturning, is to change its color. By using various dyes and other coloring products, you can easily transform a bland piece of wood into something spectacular. Because the wood will accept the color less in side grain areas and more in end grain areas, delicate and subtle grain figure can be significantly enhanced.

Pale timbers can be made to look vibrant and glowing. Dark timbers can also benefit from coloring, adding warmer and richer undertones and highlights. If you've never never experimented with coloring wood before, don't worry. It's an easy technique to learn and the products are usually inexpensive, allowing you to freely experiment on various projects.

Types of Dyes

There are many different types of dye and coloring products available for wood. Two popular dye types are spirit (solvent) based dyes and water based dyes. Of the two, the spirit based dyes are easier to use if you're just getting started, as they are virtually goof-proof within the modern dynamic of a woodturning environment. Spirit based dyes dry very quickly and most are fully intermixable, allowing you to achieve almost any color from a few base colors. In addition, most spirit based dyes are lightfast, which means that the color is resistant to discoloring when exposed to light.

Water based dyes can also be used to color the wood, but they are not as easy to use as their spirit based counterparts. Water based dyes take much longer to dry and also raise the wood grain, requiring an additional step to remove the raised grain prior to finishing. In addition, some water based dyes are not lightfast, which means that they may discolor when exposed to light.

Dye Application Quick-Tips

Spirit based dyes can be applied by numerous methods including brush, rag, paper towel or dip bath. For finer detail and control of the color application, an artists airbrush, H... V... L... P... sprayer, or a small disposable sprayer can be used. If you wish to layer (into a gradual, blending of one color another) multiple colors onto a project, a simple artists airbrush can be used. These can be obtained inexpensively at most major craft stores. Dyes will accentuate any residual sanding scratches, or bruised grain areas on the surface of your project! Therefore, always insure the surface contains no defects and sand to a minimum of 600-grit (quality 1,200 grit, or higher for gallery work) before applying the dye onto the surface of the wood. To limit the color to a specific area such as the rim of a platter, turn and sand the area that you wish to color. Leave the rest of the project rough turned... When you have finished applying the color to the desired area and it has fully dried, finish turn the rest of the project. Then, using your gouge cut into the colored area to remove any unwanted color and clean up the edge boundaries. This will create a knife-edge between the colored and uncolored areas on the project, creating a crisp visual transition. To color the entire project with a single color, or several colors, turn and sand the entire project before applying your chosen colors. It's very easy to mix the colors right on the surface of your project, creating additional colors in areas where different colors blend together. If you prefer a very light blush of color on your project, simply add a small amount of your chosen color to a thin lacquer, or alcohol based finish and mix thoroughly. This will create what's called a tone-spray effect. This produces a very translucent color that is almost imperceptible, enhancing the piece in a provocative, yet subtle way. This effect can only be achieved when the thinned color is sprayed onto the surface. By spraying, you can easily control the depth and intensity of each layer, while maintaining smooth transitions between individual colors.
Most spirit colors are too intense to use straight out of the bottle. You can easily thin the color by decanting some of the concentrate into a metal can and adding the appropriate solvent. I like to thin most spirit colors 50 / 50, (solvent to color concentrate by volume) before using them. This creates a light wash color, which is very easy to control as you are building your color on the surface. When using dye concentrates, only decant enough to complete the project you will be working on. This keeps your original color fresh in the container and ready for your next use. To prevent cross-contamination or dilution of the original color, never return used concentrate or thinned dye to the original container

Coloring your work is a simple way to begin your exploration into decorative embellishments for your woodturnings. These and other creative explorations, focus your inner muse in new and exciting ways as you continue to develop your own unique artistic style.

About The Author

Steven Russell is a professional artist, demonstrator and writer. His studio, Eurowood Werks specializes in hand-turned bowls, platters and hollow forms with unique visual and tactile treatments. Steve's website, Woodturning Videos Plus, http://www.woodturningvideosplus.com offers educational DVD videos and eBooks for woodturners of all skill levels. To learn more about woodturning, visit his resource library at http://www.woodturningvideosplus.com/woodturning-education-articles.html which offers tips and tricks to master the art of woodturning.

In addition to his studio work, Steve frequently writes educational articles for international woodturning magazines, which are published in more than 75 countries around the world. As a highly sought after demonstrator, he has performed more than 1, 760 woodturning demonstrations throughout the United States in the last eleven years.

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Right design touch wheel project turning techniques

Crafts with the same properties of turned wood, tools, techniques, especially know most of the design techniques, a strong foundation of basic requirements or considerations. This knowledge improved, woodturner, be able to express their own creativity and challenging ways from classic and modern style.

Spindle rotation technologies:

Runs in two basic tasks of wooden lathe spindle rotation most popular. In the process of spindle rotation between the wood lathe head and tail stock includes mount space. Can create pen furniture legs from many different types of spindles. Some conversion tool is used in the form of the project. When turning the small projects such as wooden pen uses wood tuner, a small lathe.

Spindle technique:

And decorative spindle technique, technology, spindle rotation unlike primarily roughing, smoothing and wood of cylindrical or tapered stock size will focus on. Technology includes complex cutting grooves, notch, curve and its unique shape. All decorative spindle rotating bead and Cove of two basic cuts on is based, even though this complex technology is like. It is concave hollow Creek cut beads raised convex surface. Can stand bead and Cove usually alone, but in some combination of the elements of the overall design.

Plate lathe and turning technology:

Wood Turner wood changes, symmetric, smooth, hollow wood items in front of his rough block watches since technology conversion plate most satisfactory technical conversion is one. The entire process happens the lathe. Preparation of the Assembly or other piece of wood. Process is a single fluid wheel task. Provide a good deal of plate processing wood Turner design freedom.

Bowl conversion technology:

As a conversion of the bowl is a little more difficult than the spindle wood Turner becomes a plate conversion experience, he improve his skills point Bowl rotation becomes second nature. Bowl gouge ball is an essential tool. Wood becomes wood Turner gouge bevel to form balls containing white space. Scraping tool is used even the rotation of the ball.

Conclusion:

Tree rotation is not only a very wonderful and relaxing experience to practice it can be fun. Using a simple technique to start designing the simple. Learn how to start a practice of design of the following things as time and easily. One technical experts can not. You should master these basic techniques, and to start after that.

Article four years Greg has written. Woodworking lathe techniques as well as ideas and wheel enthusiasts interested about some discussion information wheel project guide project in his latest website.

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Wood Turning safety: wheel shape.

Woodworking tend to like any physical activity, woodturning, many woodturners still than to take care of their own equipment woodworking take better. Some considerations are for continued enjoyment of our technology.

Unless very wheel pens, candlesticks, etc. is limited to small pieces tuner part handles most of the wood. Above Bowl blank 100 pounds, a rough cut of wood logs to go Bowl Turner anomaly is not, and turning spaces mount them in a bowl. Before you jump of woodturners in stretching and warm-up process the weight lifting weight while most barbell and dumbbell is much more awkward shaped more wood to grab, lift. Understandably, pulled muscles and poor backup results neither serious turned ardour.

A few minutes between the fun before basic warm-up and stretching exercises, wood processing, can go a long way to add to the sessions of the Potter's wheel. Such practices are seen in books, magazines and websites easily.

Is to one bowl and spindle rotation before warmups best simply green tree from or shavings. Standing tool in turning and held to the side and up and down the arm while tool mobile slight bend forward and legs and waist twists rotates. During the conversion and very often exaggerate these movements, body, place especially incredible in various parts of the legs, waist, hips and back strain. Movement of these muscles are warmed up and ready to back to the basics.

12 Or 14, Mount 3 or 4 inch prepares a green tree Center between branch and roughing gouges. You can use the dry wood is easier and less strain on green tree. The roughing gouge from the right edge quite upright posture turn left. Use the opposite hand and move the rest of the tools from the left edge to the right turn. Repeat the steps to wood care is too small. You must muscle the armed ready for a real project.

The Woodturners to bend and reach awkward poses, and that no distortion tends to place should be put in place. However, many to keep healthy and of safety and enjoyment to continue rotating in years future, can do.

Wood turnings Darrell Feltmate around Woods , its web site that contains detailed information on the conversion of a novice or an experienced Turner is a wood Turner for screening, as well as a collection for your viewing pleasure. This is the place to start here can you also learn about trees. How it looks? Sharp reaches many free video site dealing with Bowl.

Is a tree of some to fully explain the project web site. In particular, photos of beginner project description and procedures complete Beginner project page.

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Woodworking And The Wood Lathe: Five Reasons That Woodworkers Can Easily Move Into Woodturning

Woodworkers can get into ruts but they also like to look for new challenges and opportunities to explore their personal relationship with wood. Getting a wood lathe and learning to use it open up a new dimension in woodworking. While many of the talents learnt in flat woodworking carry over to the round world of woodturning, new talents in the craft need to be developed, leading to new excitement in an old field.

First, while woodturners need extra tools other than a wood lathe and lathe tools, for many woodworkers this is a minor requirement. The other tools needed to prepare wood for the lathe are usually present in the form of band saws and table saws which are common for the woodworker's shop. Wood lathe tools need to be sharpened for use, but most woodworkers already have a tool grinder for the purpose of removing nicks from chisels and the like. This is easily transformed to lathe tool sharpener by replacing a grinder wheel with an inexpensive, aluminum oxide, fine grit wheel and making a sharpening jig.

Second, once the lathe is set up and ready and the tools sharpened, the question is what to turn. For many woodworkers this at first becomes an extension of flat woodworking. Making table legs allows for more individual expression than buying preturned ones from a catalogue or making them all straight lined from necessity. While there are many variations of cabinet knobs available in various materials, personal ones may be turned from wood, brass or plastics very easily on the wood lathe and many can be easily decorated. Small casework is easily decorated with escutcheons or finials.

Third, after the practise of turning parts for furniture and other casework, many woodworkers will move on to other types of woodturning. There are many ideas for wood turning projects available in magazines, books and the web. Many of these will already be in the possession of most woodworkers. Such projects range from candlesticks, tool handles and tea lights, to pens, bowls, vases and almost anything round. Some of these will need to glued up from several parts and once again the typical woodworker's abilities come into play with knowledge of jointing, clamping and gluing.

Fourth, an aspect that is sometimes overlooked as one contemplates woodworking in general is the acquiring of wood with which we work. For the majority of woodworkers this is a simple albeit expensive trip to the local lumber merchant. While this can also be of advantage to a woodturner, many prefer to start with a log section. This type of wood is generally much cheaper to get than prepared lumber and is often free. A chainsaw may be required but many woodworkers will already own one, either electric or gas powered.

Fifth and along the same lines is the question that many woodworkers have as to what to do with all the pretty offcuts of wood that accumulate in the home workshop? They are often too small to do anything with but too nice to throw out. Woodturners often made small items that will use up many small pieces or they glue them together to make segmented turnings. The woodworker's workshop with its jointer and planer can make this much easier than it is for many wood turners who do not have these tools.

Thus the acquisition of a wood lathe can open a new world of woodworking to the flat woodworker. Many of the already practised skills move easily to the wood lathe and wood preparation while the tools of the workshop prove to be greatly useful in the new part of the woodworking craft. Woodworking is done for fun and adding this new dimension will add greatly to the overall enjoyment.

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Wood Lathe Safety: Five Things To Consider For Woodturning Workshops

Of all the power tools in the work shop, the wood lathe is one of the safest. This is still a powerful tool used with sharp tools and care is needed. Ultimately, safety is in the hands of the user. Here are a few safety tips to consider when turning wood.

One of the first things to look for is the general condition of the lathe itself. Many woodturners are amateurs who have only a few hours a week to spend in the workshop and wish to spend most of it at the lathe so that maintenance takes a back seat. Some time needs to be spent on such maintenance as sharpening spur centers, replacing bearings, making sure mounting nuts are secure, dressing the tool rest and so on. Before the lathe is turned on it should be checked to be sure that everything is tightened down and the wood will clear the tool rest as it rotates. Not only does it make the turning more enjoyable, it makes it safer.

While the condition of the lathe is important for safety, so is the condition of the wood turner. Fatigue causes accidents. A wood turner should be well rested and free of alcohol or drugs. All rings and other jewellery should be removed. It is all too easy for rotating wood to catch neck ties or other loose clothing and draw a turner into the lathe or for a caught piece of jewellery to rip off pieces of skin.

The height of the lathe should generally be set so that the center line of the turning will be at elbow height of the turner. This may vary a little with individuals because of varying ratios of arm to leg length, but it is a good working estimate. A height too great or too little easily causes back pain through undue hunching or stretching. Rubber mats on concrete floors also can be a big help in relieving back pain.

With the increase in artistic turning over the past few decades, more and more wood turners are mounting burls, spalted wood and wood with splits and voids in it, particularly in faceplate work. These pieces of wood tend to be fairly large and unbalanced. This sets up a lot of vibration in the lathe and can be inherently dangerous, especially as chunks of wood may fly off the lathe at high speeds if the lathe is turning too fast. Experience and slow speeds are essential in this type of turning.

There are various charts that are used to determine the speeds at which woods of various diameters are turned. These should be approached with caution as not all woods are of the same density and many have knots, hidden splits or other imperfections that will be aggravated by high speeds. It is best to start turning at a slow speed and increase as circumstances dictate.

There is no way to make working with power tools completely safe but a few simple precautions and common sense can make the woodturning workshop a safe place for a long time to come.

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