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American Woodturner 29 issue 1

February 2014

Features

  • Heavy-Duty Tool Handle: Strong, stable, and the perfect heft, Jeff Kieserman creates the mother of all tool handles.
  • Stabilizing Wood: An Alchemist’s Guide: It’s a finicky process that demands your full attention, but it’s worth its weight in gold, by Don McIvor.
  • Anatomy of a Cone: Pens With a Sense of Humor: Rick O'Ryan demonstrates how to turn pinecones into... Details
Essential Utensils: Turning for the Kitchen

Large or small, everyone loves a handmade turned object. To make a pleasing turned item, tools, skills, and knowledge of shape and function are critical.

This special edition, Essential Utensils: Turning for the Kitchen, explores making functional items to strengthen your woodturning skills (106 page, full color, softcover book).

What you can learn from this book:

  • About the evolution of design and function
  • ... Details
Woodturning Fundamentals 2018 Four Issue Set

February 2018, Volume 7, Issue 1: Chucking Tenons

May 2018, Volume 7, Issue 2: Spindle Gouge...It Can Turn Anything!

August 2018, Volume 7, Issue 3: Grain Direction...It Determines Everything!

November 2018,... Details

Woodturning Fundamentals 7 issue 1

February 2018

TOPICS

  • PROJECTS: Turn-to-learn candlestick, Big bottle opener, Apple bowl with handles
  • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: Spindle roughing gouge, Chucking tenon on spindle, Safely bandsawing small logs, Turning bowls on a faceplate
  • WOOD: Apple-it grows everywhere, More than one bowl inside that log
  • TURNING TIPS: Bandsaw red zone, steer from the sides, Flat disks, Shower... Details
Woodturning Fundamentals 7 issue 2

May 2018

FEATURES

  • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: Spindle gouges: Very Versatile Tool, Grain Orientation, Cove, Bead, Shoulder, Sharpening, Three Coordinated Arcs, Practice, Practice, Practice; Biomechanics and Body Movement at the Lathe; Centering Jig for Bowl Bottom
  • PROJECTS: Classic Rolling Pin; Plates, Plates, Plates; Off-Axis One-Piece Pie Server; Basic Yoyo
  • TURNING TIPS: Q/A - Height of Lathe ... Details
Woodturning Fundamentals 7 issue 3

August 2018

FEATURES

  • PROJECTS: 2x4 Bowl Gets on Top of Grain Direction, Learn to Turn: Honey Dippers, Two-Piece Cake Stand
  • TOOLS & TECHNIQUES: Bowl Gouge: Sharpening, What's That? Lathe Parts and Accessories, Parting Tool
Woodturning Fundamentals 7 issue 4

November 2018

FEATURES

  • FUNdamental Overview: The Woodturning Lathe, Grain Direction on the Lathe, Grain Direction and Turning Tools, Parts of a Turning Tool, Spindle Gouge Shapes, Angles, Skew Chisels and Parting Tools, Bowl Gouge Shapes and Angles, Scrapers Scrapers Scrapers, Carbide-Insert Tools.
  • Tools & Techniques: Why Sand? How Sand?, Creating a Sanding and Finishing Plan, Scrapers: Sharpening,... Details