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Small Woodturning - Five Ways To Satisfaction in the Art and Craft  While a lot of the direction in woodturning tends to be in the way of larger and larger pieces, there are advantages to turning small items. Here are three ways to develop satisfaction in the art and craft of woodturning by going small. One of the questions that haunts a woodturner throughout their career is how to get the ultimate curve and proportion for each piece turned. While this is one of those elusive, artistic questions without an answer there are times when a piece is very definitively on or off. For a large turning this may require a lot of wood and time to answer the question and if the result is poor the time and wood may be considered wasted. While it may be easily argued that this is a learning experience and that no education is without worth, there is an easier way to acquire an answer before committing to the large block of wood and time, turning small. ...

Popular Lathe Tools A lathe is a tool which rotates a workpiece on an axis in order to allow for a range of completely symmetrical operations which can include sanding, cutting, drilling or other kinds of deformation. In other words the worker will place an object or material onto the lathe and it will then turn around 360 degrees repeatedly. By simply holding the implement in the correct place then, a hobbyist or professional is able to make change that will affect the entire circumference of the material. Lathes are used in a variety of different industries and there are a range of popular tools associated with their use. To name just a few, lathes are used for woodturning, metalwork, metal spinning, glass work, pottery and more. Things that can be produced by using a lathe include cue sticks, table legs, glasses, bowls, baseball bats, instruments (woodwing), camshafts, crankshafts, plates, bowls, pots and mugs. The potter's wheel for instance which is high...

Woodturning-Techniques Woodturning is a way to make wooden projects using a lathe. The wood is generally turned by a motorized lathe while a tool us used to shave, gouge, and shape it into different objects. Woodturning is commonly used to make bowls, furniture, bats, instruments, wooden toys, game pieces, spindles, chair or table legs, and plates. Of course, as with any woodworking hobby, woodturning can be used in a lot of different ways. The project is only limited by the imagination  and skill of the woodturner Projects usually start with a blank piece of wood. For spindles, toys, tool handles, doll house parts, and other small projects, you may be able to start with wooden dowels. This can simplify the process for you. If you don't start with a dowel, you will need to use a woodturning tool designed to get the blank into the basic shape that you want to work with. Most projects start with a roughing gouge to round the wood blank into a spindle. The sp...

Tips to Starting Your Own Home Woodworking Business Self-employment as a woodworker provides independence. It enables the unique situation where you are able to create wood products, furniture and cabinets at a pace you are comfortable without anyone looking over your shoulder. You essentially become your own boss. If you are tired of the rapidly changing job market and the increasing demand for technology workers, then woodworking provides a degree of technical stability. The woodworking industry evolves very slowly and unless you are involved in the highly computerized and mechanized CNC end of the market, the woodworking industry is very traditional. There are many types of tools and machinery used in conventional woodworking which date back to a century or more ago, to give you an idea of how relevant any knowledge you gain will be useful in the future. You will also need to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a self- employed woodworker in comp...

Woodturning Tools - What to Look For One quick look at a woodworking or woodturning catalogue will expose a bewildering array of tools from which the woodturner can choose. If we consider such things as chucks, centers and other methods of holding or measuring wood and restrict ourselves to hand held tools that cut wood, there is still an overwhelming assortment. For the sake of simplicity, it is easier to divide the array into gouges, skews, scrapers, parting tools, hollowing tools and simply others. A look at the assortment of beginner's sets on the  market gives evidence that the first four are the most used tools in the wood turner's kit. Gouges are generally divided again into roughing gouges, spindle gouges and bowl gouges. The roughing gouge is usually the first one a wood turner reaches for to rough down a spindle on the lathe. It should have be a robust cross section of steel and be shaped to a half circle. It is sharpened straight across and...