How To Do It

Beginning Woodturning and Safety

• How to buy a woodlathe  - From Wood magazine
• How to Get Started - from Woodworker's Journal
• 8 Basics of Woodturning - short video with basic directions
• Tips for Beginning Woodturner
• Woodturning Basics- by Mike Mahoney from Fine Woodworking
• Wood Turning 101 - What You Need to Know to Get Started on the Lathe
  

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• Beads of Courage
• Johnny Tolly Beads of Courage
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• Bowl Turning
  

• # 180 The basic bowl with Carbide tools   Capt Eddie Castelin

• # 195 The bowl, the beginning   Capt Eddie Castelin
• Basic Bowl   Tim Yoder
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• Drying Techniques

• Alcohol soaking with chart
• Drying Green Bowls - Six Methods
• Options for Drying Green Bowl Blanks-by Ernie Conover
• Microwave Drying - by Marshall Garrow

Finishing

• Beall Tool Company - Beall Buffing System; cloth wheels, compound & wax, mandrels, buffs.
• Airbrush and Airtool Products Joe Fleming will answer questions also
  
• Bill Kandler's Finishing Page for Segmented Turnings - useful links to manufacturer's sites
• Lacquer Finish Troubleshooting Guide - from Woodfinish Supply
• Mike Mahoney's finishes- from Bowlmaker, Inc. - Food safe Walnut-oil based finishes
• Woodfinish Supply Company - sources for a range of wood finishing products
• Woodworker's Supply - Lacquers, stains, additives, and finishes; spraying equip. & accessories

General Woodturning Sites

  · Woodturner's Resource - Wide range of woodturning resources, on-line videos, tutorials, etc.

· Woodturning Online - Articles for the beginner, miscellaneous articles on techniques, etc. 

· Woodturnigwiz.com - Woodturning Wizardry Web site - equipment, techniques, supplies.

· Marshall's Woodturning Links - Excellent "launching point"

· Around the Woods - General Woodturning 
Doc Green's Woodtirning site. 

 

Green Wood Processing

• Turning Green Wood- by Howard Lewin
• Woodturning Supply from Firewood to Turning Wood
• Bandsaws and Bowl Blank Prep - by Reed Gray
  

History of Lathes and Woodturning

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• Pages from American Artifacts:
  • Barnes No. 3 Velocipede Wood Turning Lathe
  • Barnes No. 4 Velocipede Wood Turning Lathe
• Machine Tool Archive - Lathes - An excellent information site for many older wood lathe

Hollowing Methods

• Turning a Hollow Form - from Around the Woods
• Making a Hollow Form - from Hilton Handcraft Web Site
• Making a articulated tip hollowing tool
• Making a swan neck tool

• Nova Chuck Maintenance
• Basic Lathe Maintenance #1  -by Mike Waldt also see #2
• Wood Lathe Maintenance
• Live Center Bering Cleaning and Repack
• Refurbish Your Live Center Cone
  

 Lathe Tool Making

• Making a Forgiving Shopmade Collet Chuck-
  
• Hook-Tool Web Sites:
  • Around the Woods - Making a hook tool - well illustrated
    • Around the Woods - Using Hook Tools - including links to videos of hook tool use
    • Tommie's Woodturning Tips -  Making a hool tool from a cut masonry nail
• An Introduction to Heat Treating, Hardening and Tempering - from Anvilfire.com
  
• Make Your Own Hollowing Rig-- by Vince
  

Online Video & Resources

• Ed Davidson's Video and Photo Tutorials - Excellent set of various videos and tutorials (...nearly 30 at this site!)
• Mike Mahoney -  You-tube video on sharpening gouges (Time: 9:19)
• Larry Marley - Videos of turned projects
• Robert Sorby - Woodturning Online Video Clips - downloadable (Follow "Movie Clips" link)
• The Spin Doctor - On-line videos of CNC lathe mill
• Woodturners Resource On-line Turning Videos
• You Tube Search for Woodturning Video Clips
• http://woodturningvideos.weebly.com/   -Many excellent video resources
• AAW Video Source  - Videos selected and reviewed for compliance to safety standards
  

 

Ornamental Turning

 

• Ornamental Turning - On-line Resource
• Ornamental Rose Engine Lathe
  
• Society of Ornamental Turners
• MDF Rose Engine Lathe
  

Pen Turning

• International Association of Penturners - Lots of useful information and links about penmaking
• Woodwork Forums - Penturning
• Pen Turning made easy video clip
• Turning Pens
• Penturners corner -Cartridge pen & tips

Safety

 AAW Safety Guidebook--requires AAW login

The Wood Database  - Wood Allergies and Toxicity

Wood/Dust Toxicity Article
Wood Dust Health Effects--CCOHS
Wood Toxicity and How To Protect Yourself--Woodworkers Source
Wood Toxicity & Allergen Chart- Deckwise

• How to Use Detail Sanding Cones
• Creating Custom Sanding Disc Holder
• Make a Ball Sanding Tool
• Sanding Disc Holder
• Homemade Spinning Disc Sander- by Marius Hornberger
  
  
  
  

Segmented Turning

• Mark Kauder - Impeccably finished segmented woodturnings.
• Bill Kandler - A great deal of diverse information on segmented turning can be found here.
• Kevin Neeleey - An excellent Site with a huge amount of information on segmenteed turning.
• Larry Marley - Making segmented vessels - includes some excellent videos. 
  
• Curt Theobald - Segmented turning instruction, accessories, and videos
• Malcom Tibbetts - Very interesting site with many useful tips in his FAQ page.
• Tennessee Valley Woodturners Segmented Turning in Practical Terms - (pdf)
• Woodturner Pro - Segmented Turning Software
  

Sharpening

• Bowl Gouge Sharpening Angles by Kent W
• Sharpening Tips by John Lucas
• Sharpening Spindle Gouges by John Lucas
• Sharpening the Skew by John Lucas
• Sharpening Woodturning Tools By Doug Thompson
  
• Mike Mahoney - Tool Design and Grinding - You-tube video on sharpening gouges (Time:  9:19)
  
• Oneway Manufacturing - Wolverine Jig, grinding wheels, wheel balancer, and other accessories
• Robert Sorby - Sharpening Systems & Sharpening Movie Clips
• Tormek Sharpening System -  SharpTools USA
• Woodcentral Tool Grind Web Site -  Photographs of various tool grinds by different turners
• Skew Sharpening  - utube by John Lucas - go to his utube home page for many more videos
• Tuning Up A Bench Grinder-by Don Geiger
  
• 40 40 grind by Stuart Batty
  

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•                                    Spalted Wood
  
  Part I of VIII part video on spalt by Dr. Sara Robinson and Mark Lindquist
  
  
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•                                    Stabilizing Wood
  
  How to Stabilize Wood Step by Step Instructions (John Clax)
• How to Double Dye Stabilize Wood for Pen Blanks Knife Scales and More
• Stabiizing Wood (Craft Supplies)
  

Surface Embellishment

 

•  Making a Woodturners Chatter Tool
• Using A Chattertool  by Guy Ravine
• Wagner Texturing Tool Review by Wyomingwoodturner
• Wagner Texturing Tools by Craft Supplies
• Spirialing and Texturing Tool part 1 by Robert Sorby
• Wood turning Spiraling & Texturing by Nick Agar
• The Decorating Elf by Nick Agar
  
  

Woodcarving

•  Wikipedia Entry
  • Chipping Away - General Woodcarving Web Site 
  • The Sculpture Studio- Basic Woodcarving Tutorial

                           
                          Pyrography

• - Wikipedia Entry chniques
  • Scorch's Pyrography - Various topics, instructions, and hints
  • The Woodburner -  Diverse site dedicated to pyrography
  • Colwood's Pyrography Equipment - Good site for general information and links

Techniques , Tips & Hints

• Around the Woods - Miscellaneous woodturning tips
• Box Scraper
  
• Captive Ring Tool 
  
• Coulee Region Woodturners - "How to" page of different projects
• Cumberland Woodturners - Tennessee - Interesting Site, and good link to woodturning tips
• Ellsworth Signature Gouge Use
•  Hilton Handcrafts- Miscellaneous articles on a range of woodturning topics
• Turningwood.com How Too - Over 20 woodturning tips of all kinds
• Bandsaw clinic
  
• Ed Davidson's Video and Photo Tutorials - Excellent set of various videos and tutorials
• Understanding woodturning catches- Richard Raffan
• Scrapers part 1- on Doc Green;'s Woodturning site
• The Negative Rake Scraper by Andrew Hilton
• Three Point Tool
• Tenon Size vs Holding Power
  
• Tenons and Variations
• How to attach wood to a lathe
• MOUNTING BOWL BLANKS: RECESS, TENON & FACEPLATE by Reed Gray
• Mounting wood on a lathe for small opening vessels by Jason Van Duyn
  

GAME CALLS 

           Grassey Creek Game Calls

    Mack's Prarie
          Duck Call Tutorials
             PENN STATE

                                                               Vacum Chucking

• Vacuum Chucking - Andrew Hilton -  Hilton Handcraft
• Vacum Chuck - How I built mine by Steve Schlumpf
• Vacum Chucking by Joe Woodworker
  

Work Holding

• Methods and Jigs for Reverse Turning by John Lucas
  
• Reverse Chucking of Bowls  by Bill Juhl
  
•       How to Make a Longworth Chuck---Carbarec

            Longworth Chuck--- Popular Woodworking            

Finding Wood

• Wood Gathering – Sourcing and Preparation of Wood Turning Blanks