Wood turning involves spinning wood and sharp tools. Spinning wood can lead to dangers and injury. But following some simple shop safety tips you can avoid common injuries associated with wood turning. Let’s start by looking at your woodturner shop. Did you notice that I said “your shop” and not mine? There’s a reason for …
Finding Birch for Woodturning Projects For the Local Market
Birch is an excellent wood for turning because it’s close grained and finishes well. I like to use local wood whenever possible in my woodturning and since our ranch is 140 acres of forest, it seems natural to harvest our own wood for turning. Mostly I look for wind-downed trees for turning. While I’ve seen …
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How to secure wood to your lathe
In order to turn wood on a lathe you have to secure the wood to the lathe. For spindle turning the wood is held between the head stock and the tail stock. For bowl turning I will show you how to mount a bowl blank with a face plate. These two methods lets the lathe …
5 Steps to Prepare Rough Wood for Turning
A very common question is where do I find wood for turning. The next challenge is, once you have collected some wood, boards, or branches, how do you get the rough wood onto your lathe? The key to successful woodturning is preparing the wood to turn, then securing that wood on the lathe so that …
5 Tips to Prepare Your Shop for Action
As I write this we are on the cusp of 2017. A New Year and a new season for turning. To help you get things together for the New Year, and anytime you need inspiration, here are 5 steps or tips you can take to prepare your shop for action. Preparation Get yourself lots of …
Is Your Woodturning Affecting Your Health?
I love woodturning. It is fun to turn wood into beautiful projects. Spending time at the lathe is both relaxing and productive. Yet woodturning can result in challenges to your health. How you turn and the environment you turn in can affect you. Here are 5 ways that turning can have an impact on your …
Five Common Turning Woods and Their Health Challenges
When we turn wood we recognize the differences between hard wood and soft wood. This has an impact on how we use our tools and what we will turn from the wood. Wood also has other properties that are important as well. This article looks at health challenges that can arise even from the most …
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Mini Lathe Tip: Changing Pulleys
Playing with my new mini wood lathe has been fun. You do have to change the pulley frequently as you go from roughing to shaping to sanding your project. As I was informed in the product reviews there was a process to changing the pulley on the Excelsior Mini Wood Lathe. Removing and replacing …
Wood Turning Safety Tips
Safety Tips to Increase the Safety of your Turning Wood turning involves spinning wood and sharp tools. Spinning wood can lead to dangers and injury. But observing some simple rules can help you avoid common injuries associated with wood turning. I wanted to introduce this blog with an exciting do what I say not what …
