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Woodturning (52 books)
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Following on from the success of his 1993 book "Woodturning Wizardry", the author has produced 20 more detailed projects which show how to turn the most extraordinary objects, including faceted boxes, eccentric and oval bowls and Faberge-style eggs. These projects will intrigue every woodturner: the pieces are obviously not impossible, but they certainly are improbable; they look difficult, but with the author's tuition and his secrets disclosed they are within the scope of any hobbyist. The book contains meticulous instructions, photographs and detailed line drawings. Introductory chapters cover woods, tools, jigs and chucks, and also include making your own tools for oval turning, eccentric latticework, facet turning and oval turning.
A portrait in words and pictures of Bert Marsh, one of the world's supreme woodturners, which charts this craftsman's development, motivation, approach and achievements.
Covering design and techniques for producing fine pieces of turned woodwork using off-centre and segmented methods, coopering and laminating, this book uses 350 drawings and photographs to illustrate procedures involved and finished results. The author of this book has included exercise pieces to acquaint the reader with the basic skills and problems which may arise before attempting any of the dozen or so project pieces. In addition to the probjects section, the book contains ten chapters, each devoted to a particular aspect of design, and the preparation and use of timber, and assembly and lathe-mounting techniques.
A survey in words and photographs of the fine art of making wooden bowls on the lathe, featuring the work of ten of the best makers at work today. These are Robin Wood, Stuart Batty, John Ambrose, Merete Larsen, Liam Flynn, Ciaran Forbes, David Comerford, Stuart Mortimer, Louise Hibbert, and the author himself. Each of the ten project chapters takes us through the stages in making a particular type of bowl, ranging from simple domestic bowls made on the ancient pole lathe to highly innovative studio pieces. Colour photographs and detailed captions allow the reader to follow the whole process, and to appreciate the rewards and challenges involved.
A guide to enhancing wood with colour, covering the basics of staining, ebonizing, gilding and dyeing. Aimed specifically at woodturners, both novices and the more experienced, the book details the ways in which colouring techniques can transform simple turned forms and bland timber into attractive set pieces. The author covers all stages of wood colouring from suitable timbers, materials for colouring and how to prepare a piece, to advice on colour theory and painting techniques.
An introduction to a range of techniques to decorate and enhance woodturned objects. It includes 44 projects to help turners develop their skills, and is divided into four parts, which look at using metal, colouring wood, wood-composite techniques and miscellaneous techniques.
Instructions for using a lathe, turner's gouge, and skew chisel are accompani by plans for making a wooden flute, bedposts, a baseball bat, and wooden top
This text brings together 30 of the author's projects originally published in "Woodturning" magazine, with the addition of an introduction on the tools, techniques and equipment required. Each project is a game you can play - with full rules and a brief history.
A selection of hints and tips for the woodturner, compiled from "Woodturning" magazine. There are over 90 tips which cover: tools and equipment; chucks; modifying and improving lathes; chisel grinding; holding wood for chainsawing; the uses of masking tape; storage; and using a laser pen.
This is a colour pictorial guide for the "improving" woodturner, with step-by-step instructions on how to approach six of the most challenging forms in the craft: bowls, closed forms, natural tops, vases, hollow forms and bottles.
This is a compilation of ideas and projects for the woodturner. There are 29 projects, each with detailed instructions, photographs and line drawings, tips and hints. The projects include a long-handled spoon and a natural-edged clock, jewellery boxes, book ends and a towel rail.
A collection of 20 woodturning projects which range from simple light-pulls to the challenge of a matching pair of urns, and include wooden mushrooms, a mug tree, salad bowl and cheese board, and goblets for the skilled turner. Everything is explained, and is supported by line drawings and photographs, with an eight-page colour section. Each project offers advice on design and preparation of stock, as well as a methodical order of work. Tips on ancillary equipment, alternative techniques and safety are also included.
For the many thousands of woodturners uncomfortable with the business requirements of their craft, this book shows how to turn a pleasurable activity into a profitable enterprise. When the authors set themselves up as professional woodturners eight years ago, they found plenty of books about the craft, and plenty of small business guides, but nothing specific to help them in their venture. Hence this book. They learnt from their own mistakes and their own successes, and never looked back. Now they are passing on the benefits of their experience to all other hobbyists. Topics covered include buying equipment, cost-effective milling and seasoning of timber, work efficiency, pricing and overheads management, keeping accounts, marketing and selling, stock-taking, bank loans, tax, insurance and safety. It even covers inspiration and design.
Discusses the structure, harvesting, and drying of wood, introduces basic too and techniques, and shows how to work with chain saws and lathes.
This work contains 500 designs, plus ideas for developing variations, which aim to inspire and increase the woodworker's confidence and skill. There are projects for creating bowls, plates, teapots, vases and jugs as well as more challenging schemes, such as a chess set. Advice on safety is given.
This introduction to woodturning discusses woodturning tools and working methods, and projects and techniques. The projects presented include goblets and egg cups, pepper mills, jar lids, hourglasses, table napkin rings, a cheese board, and the art of decorating wood by burning.
A guide to functional and decorative woodturning techniques for use with olive, zebrano and cocobolo woods, amongst others.
A book for woodturners who wish to add new skills and ideas to their work. It begins with basic design constructions and the tools and equipment needed, and then has a series of projects for making boxes. There are also sections on decorative techniques and finishing, and tips for selling boxes.
This guide shows how to turn all types of furniture components. Simple instructions demonstrate basic turning and sharpening techniques and there is an in-depth discussion on how to duplicate parts. It also provides information on buying, setting up and tuning lathes, tools and accessories.
A guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood. Using "green" timber enables you to choose and cut your own wood. The author explains how to harvest and store timber, and how to make the best use of the grain patterns and other properties. Six projects are described and illustrated: a cross-grain translucent bowl; a cross-grain natural-edge bowl; an end-grain bowl; a natural-edge end-grain bowl; a natural-edge end-grain goblet; and a part-turned bowl.
A guide to creating miniature objects in wood, such as table and kitchen accoutrements, dolls' house furniture, and lace bobbins. All of the projects are described and illustrated in a series of large-scale step-by-step photographs.
Provides instructions for twenty-three woodturning items, such as trivets, scoops and ladles, vases, trays, pepper mills, and beads.
Describes the parts and functions of a lathe, demonstrates correct procedures for measuring, centerwork, facework, and finishing, and shows examples of turned bowls, boxes, and plates.
Turning Wood into Art
by Suzanne Ramljak, Michael W. Monroe, Mason Arthur, Mark Richard Leach (Editor),
April 2000,
224 pages, hardcover.
Categories: Design, Woodturning
The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection is one of the world's premier collections of lathe-turned wooden objects. This book brings together works from the collection, ranging from bowls and vessels to abstract sculptural pieces.
This guide to woodturning provides step-by-step instructions for 20 projects. It features die-cut pages that split the book into two separate sections, so that the reader can open the top section on the project that they want to recreate, and the lower section reveals the techniques needed.
Intended for beginners or improving woodturners, this book offers a solid grounding in basic woodturning skills and then explores and demonstrates diverse and advanced applications of these skills, covering between-centres and bowl turning. The practical, detailed approach is supported by colour photographs and line drawings. There are chapters on safety, wood and seasoning, tools and chucks, sanding and finishing. There are 12 introductory projects described in step-by-step detail, demonstrating how to refine woodturning skills, and three further projects which tackle more complicated pieces with an introduction to advanced and decorative finishing methods.
Comprising 28 articles selected from the pages of "Woodturning" magazine, and aimed at all levels of competence, this title includes labour-saving ideas from experts. This book will show you how to make a simple low-cost lathe, a complete set of accessories for your scroll chuck, and how the "skewchigouge" and "9-in-1 Multi Tool" were invented. The text also demonstrates how to make paper joints for turning, "age" a bowl with a blow-torch, and sketch potential shapes before turning. Other techniques include: modifying your lathe; making lathes more versatile; an amateur's guide to chasing threads; inside out turning; producing ornamental turned items on any lathe; save money by making a lever-operated tailstock; and a rest to make hollow turning easier.
A project book for those seeking a varied range of ideas for things to make on the lathe. Included are articles from out-of-print issues of "Woodturning" magazine. 29 illustrated projects are featured with additional tips and hints. Projects include: trays; bookends; lids; eggs; a three-tier tripod table; vases; bird house; knobs and handles; salad bowls; collapsible beaker; pepper mill; threaded lid boxes; tool handles; mushrooms; and natural top bowls.
Five designs for wooden clock cases, especially for woodturner's, complete with measured plans and stage-by-stage drawings and full instructions are included in this book.
This book is designed to stimulate individual design ideas for the woodturner who has had some experience and wants to move on to produce his or her own projects. The book encourages readers to draw inspiration from a variety of sources, while offering guidelines and advice on translating that inspiration into new designs. The fundamental relationship between design and technique is explored carefully throughout the book, with examples showing how different design requirements have a bearing on choosing the best production techniques. In addition to covering design and technique, the author also explores proportion, function, unusual and sought-after timbers, sapwood and burrs, drying and finishing.
Woodturning
by Dave Regester,
March 2000,
128 pages, softcover.
Categories: Projects, Woodturning
A personal approach to turning by a master woodworker and experienced teacher of the craft. The 30 instructional projects in this book are aimed at the beginner, using a one-to-one tuition style.
Woodturning
by Hugh O'Neill,
September 1997,
191 pages, softcover.
Categories: Techniques, Woodturning
A guide to aspects of woodturning. The author explores the area of good design, and gived advice on buying, drying, storing and mounting timber. He examines tools in depth, along with methods of staining and decoration.
An introduction to the art of woodturning. It covers: understanding trees and timber; selecting lathes and tools; basic techniques of between-centres and faceplate turning; and step-by-step instructions for 12 projects. At the core of the method are six "laws of woodturning".
Woodturning
by Oliver Plant,
June 1993,
128 pages, softcover.
Categories: Techniques, Woodturning
This illustrated manual covers basic, intermediate and advanced techniques and is aimed at all woodturners, with each section of advice inclusive of practical examples. The book emphasizes the techniques of cutting wood so that a fine finish is quickly achieved without resorting to excessive sanding. Beginning with a look at the lathe itself, lathe safety and wood selection, the book lists many of the techniques for working with chisels and gouges, and how to mount the work in the lathe. Further sections look at the more specialized skills required for making bowls, spoons, tool handles, vases and even picture frames.
Woodturning
by Hugh O'Neill,
October 1992,
192 pages, softcover.
Categories: Projects, Techniques, Woodturning
This comprehensive guide to woodturning covers the tools and woods used in turning, the principles of design, the lathe, wood finishing and the techniques of turning spindles, bowls and decorative works. The book also covers a selection of projects including bowls and table legs. This revised edition of the hardback will be of value and help to both new and experienced woodturners.
Woodturning
by "Woodturning" magazine,
April 1999,
109 pages, softcover.
Categories: Projects, Techniques, Woodturning
This is a collection of the best writing from "Woodturning" magazine. It includes illustrated projects, features and technical articles.
A study of hollow turning, box-making and bowl-turning techniques. It covers all aspects of woodturning, including advice on laying out and equipping the workshop, tools and machinery, and obtaining and converting timber. Over 100 examples of the author's designs are illustrated.
A guide for anyone contemplating reviving furniture or decoration using woodturning. Topics covered include: advice on equipment; preparation of materials; safety; and step-by-step instruction on repairing furniture, games and decorative items. There are illustrative photographs and diagrams.
Crafting jewellery from wood is a pastime which presents the woodworker with turning projects and skill-building ideas, plus an opportunity to create items from small amounts of wood. This book offers 12 step-by-step projects for a whole range of jewellery, including earrings, bangles, brooches, rings and necklaces. It explains how to decorate your creations with such techniques as wire-inlaying, staining and dyeing, beading, scorch rings and lamination. All the projects are quick and easy, using an ordinary workshop lathe without any special features, and often offcuts of wood.
Profiles 12 leading British woodturners, looking at their lives, influences, techniques and approaches to the craft. Each turner is photographed at work on a specific project, showing all stages from blank to finished piece. This is followed in each case by photographs of their recent work.
This step-by-step guide to woodturning provides methods for: turning spheres, spindles, rings and ellipses; eccentric, multi-axis and slender turning; and chucking and drilling in the lathe. It also explains new devices and shows how woodturning methods have developed over the centuries.
A collection of articles from The Guild of Master Craftsman's "Woodturning" magazine. This collection covers a wide range of techniques, and also offers projects which challenge traditional wisdom and new approaches to the craft. Projects include: turning a deep oval bowl; ornamental turning; texturing, finishing and colouring; secrets of ebonising and bleaching; metalwork for woodturners; green woodturning; and copy and ring turning.
A guide to turnery, based on miniature decorative techniques used by 19th-century craftsmen. It reveals that the three secrets behind turnery are the jigs and chucks, making special small-scale tools and mathematically precise marking.
Features 118 lathe-turned shapes, divided into nine categories, each prefaced by comments about the designs included, and featuring notes on the techniques involved. The book explains the differences between the various categories of lathe-turned objects.
This practical guide to woodturning techniques, is part of the "Woodturning" series, covering all aspects of woodturning: lathes, materials, tools and techniques. By the author of "Turning Boxes and Spindles: Step-by-Step" and "Turning Bowls: Step-by-Step".
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