Woodturning
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How to Turn a Treen: Make a Fork Turning Project on Your LatheWhile the usual turning projects involve making a rounded piece on your lathe, expert Ernie Conover demonstrates an unusual but useful woodworking project.
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How to Make Vases with Ring, Insert and Scraping Woodturning ToolsTurning vases and hollowform vessels from the inside out seems like a difficult task, but with the right tools it is actually easier than it looks.
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Rockler Lathe Tool Holder Keeps Your Lathe Tools and Supplies at HandRockler’s Lathe Tool Holder has a swivel arm that attaches to your lathe, giving you a table to keep turning tools and supplies at hand while you work.
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4 Fun Food-Related Woodworking KitsAdding a little fun to your homemade utensils or turning projects can be as simple as creating a fun shaped and/or colored handle.
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How to Use a Drill Bit on Your Tailstock’s Morse Taper to Improve Your TurningWoodworker’s Journal Editor Rob Johnstone offers his advice on the best way to get turnings started on your lathe by mounting a drill bit.
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How to Turn Bowls and Spheres with a Vacuum Chuck and PumpTo get to all sides of a bowl or sphere without mounting and marking up the project, our expert suggests an interesting vacuum chuck attachment.
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How to Make a High-Gloss Finish While Turning on a Lathe with Friction PolishFriction polish can be a turner’s best friend, creating attractive, high gloss finishes on projects while they’re still turning on the lathe.
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Short on Pen Blanks? Try These Pen Turning KitsRockler offers pen turning kits in Carbara and Sierra style kits, giving you new and unique options for creating your own turned pens.
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Turning Screwdrivers in the ZoneThe Woodworker’s Zone WoodWiki instructors lead students in making a wide variety of turned tool handles from simple turnings to complex carvings.
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Advanced Pen Turning: New Laser-Cut Inlay Kits Make You a Star Turner!Rockler’s Laser-Cut Inlay kits make adding lays to your Sierra pen turning kits simple, offering an extra levels of detail for advanced woodturners.
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Saturday Showcase: An Eccentric Woodworker? No, It’s Eccentric Woodturning!Rockler employee and woodturner Matt L. from Seattle practices an eccentric brand of woodturning, involving three axes and hand-rubbed sanding.
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Trunk Show: The Art of the TreeWoodturner Virgil Leih takes turning to a whole new level, rather than just turning small blanks, he works with a whole tree trunk for his art.
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Should Your New Turning Tools Be Smoothly Sharpened When You Open Them?Q: I recently received a detail gouge as a gift and was wondering why the grind looks and feels rough. Do I have to run it through a light grind to smooth it before I start turning? I thought I could just grab a new tool and start turning. A: Turning tools do not [...]
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Get Rid of Static Charge on Your Face Shield With the Help of a Laundry Dryer SheetMy face shield is a regular companion in the shop, but the plastic builds a static charge that attracts dust. Here’s an easy way I’ve found to clean it and reduce the static cling. Wipe the shield with a fabric softener sheet. You can use them over and over again, then grab a fresh one [...]
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How to Make Shaker Style Furniture: Candle StandThe term Shaker is sometimes seen as denoting a furniture period, like Queen Anne or Chippendale, but although Shaker furniture making is a genre built to a set of aesthetic principles identifiably different than those of other genres of furniture making, the Shaker genre is not based, even loosely, on an historical period. Shaker [...]
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Making Hardwood Bottle Opener Handles Turning on a LatheMaple and walnut bottle openers make inexpensive gifts that are relatively easy to make mounted and with a little turning on your lathe.
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Getting Started Pen TurningFor new woodturners and turners interested in starting to make pens, Rockler has some tips on hardware and techniques for getting started.
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Woodturning by Joe SeltzerJoe Seltzer translates his love for woodworking into creating miniature turning projects from boxwood and pink ivory, most no bigger than 7″.
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Woodturning by Ed KelleFrom learning the tool in 2003 to teaching it in small shops, Ed Kelle uses his outside the shop influences to create woodturning masterpieces.
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Woodturners Show Small Scale Fine-Grain Wood Turning Projects on a LatheFour of the finest woodturners in America specialize in turning miniature woodworking projects on the lathe, a very intricate and delicate task.
