Wood Turning Projects – Skills Are Us
By Darrell Feltmate
Wood turning projects approach the central theme of many wood turning activities, the learning and development of new skills. Like many if not all of the arts and crafts of the world, wood turning is an activity that knows of no bounds to learning. There are always new things to master.
In order to [...]
Wood Turning Projects – Three Ways to Dress Them Up
By Darrell Feltmat
Wood turning projects are a great way to learn new skills and to refresh old ones. They generally come with instructions from start to finish and hopefully with lots of pictures to give further guidance. However, the very nature of wanting to learn a new skill determines that the project needs to be [...]
Wood Turning Lathe – the Heart of the Hobby
By Darrell Feltmate
Wood turning has swept the wood working world as the fastest growing part of its methods. This of course has meant the growth of the wood lathe manufacturing industry as more and greater styles of lathe are being made. While this has meant a great deal of choice for the advanced turner with [...]
Wood Turning Bowls – A Lifetime of Learning
By Darrell Feltmate
Wood turning bowls seem to be a simple thing, After all, people have done it since the beginning of time. The first lathes appear to have been someone sticking a log between two points of wood or rack, wrapping a rope around the log and pulling it back and forth while someone [...]
Wood Turning Bowls – So Common We Forget They Are Sophisticated
By Darrell Feltmate
Bowls have been part of the human existence since we began to hold things and want to keep them. Wood turning bowls has been part of life ever since someone realized that a piece of wood could be hollowed to hold water, food or other treasures. Some of the first indications we [...]
Wood Turning Lathe – Is Bigger Better?
By Darrell Feltmate
Wood turning lathes seem to be machines on steroids some days. They are getting bigger and more massive all the time. This is likely in response to two trends in the wood turning world. First is the response from manufacturers to a tendency among turners to make bigger and bigger pieces. Second [...]
Wood Turning Projects – What Is a Beginner Wood Turner to Do?
By Darrell Feltmate
Wood turning tends to be a fairly solitary venture taking place in a work shops around the world. There may be a class or two or monthly meetings of the wood turning club, but for most it will be an hour here and there, privately in the garage, basement or [...]
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