WOODTURNING

Though Olive wood is rarer to find for woodworking and woodturning, it is a real beauty!

New to woodturning? You will find Cyanoacrylate (super glue)one of your mainstay tools. You'll use bottles of the stuff.

While Pine is generally not a favored woodturning lumber, it does hold some surprises for interesting and beautiful, if not artistic, woodturnings.

Making a mistake while woodturning doesn't automatically mean the piece of wood, or perhaps even the project, is a lost cause. So long as there is wood left, the woodturning is still alive!

Artists and Architects since ancient times have used the Golden Mean in their works. You can use it in woodturning as well.

Correct posture is important for woodturners. It not only helps you complete projects nicely, but contributes significantly to joint and muscle health as well.

Captive rings rattling about the stems of goblets or other woodturnings are attention getters. People always ask "It's from the same piece of wood? How'd you do that?"

Blind turning of hollow forms can be intimidating, particularly to new wood turners, but isn't as bad as you might think. A thin walled hollow form woodturning done through a little hole at the top is trick, and always a conversation piece.

Give your woodturnings a point of artistic interest with texturing. It's not always about perfectly smooth surfaces.

A removable indexing pin accurately positions the headstock while you lock it down

Tree branches can be troublesome to dry without cracking, as well as knots, but for the patient woodturner can sometimes present exceptional grain patterns.

Just when Men think they have it all figured out, an Woman clues them in.

Do you have strong creative urges, a love for wood and an interest in wood turning? Do you think of lathes as the massive cast-iron beasts you remember from high school? Read on. ...

How to re-grind a gouge to make a tool that, in suitable wood, will make identical beads, easily and without fuss.

Choosing the correct wood turning lathe depends solely on the type of turning you plan on doing now and in the future.

The Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia is an internatial arts institution, museum, gallery, and resource center. Like Art? Visit them.

Take a break from more complicated projects, and try something different for a change of pace.

Understanding the nature of a curve, and being able to execute that, is oftentimes a key component to a piece of art.

From his utilitarian objects to his more decorative forms, wood sculptor William Hunter has developed an expansive portfolio of work that covers over three decades. Now he makes a visit to the Long Beach Museum of Art in his first retrospective this fall.