BYTOWN WOODTURNERS GUILD
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GUIDES / HOW TO

Types of Woodturning

  • Bias Turning, coring, end-grain turning, face turning, green wood (turning), hollowing, indexing, inside-out turning, metal spinning (turning soft metals), miniature turning,  multi-axis turning, ornamental turning, oval turning, profile/ring turning, segmenting, spindle turning, split turning and therming.

Tool Types and Use

  • Beading tools, bedan tools, bowl gouges, carbide cutters, cove tools, dovetail recess tools, friction-fit tools, half-round tools, hook tools, micro tools, point tools, parting tools,  scrapers, shear-scraping, skew chisels, spindle gouges, spindle roughing gouges, technique / tool control, miscellaneous tool type articles.

Tools: Sharpening

  • 3-point tools, bowl gouges, carbide cutters, grinders, parting tools, scrapers, skew chisels, spindle gouges, spindle roughing gouges, miscellaneous sharpening articles.

Lathe Parts: Mounting Work at Headstock 

  • Chucks, chuck jaws, Cole (Jumbo) jaws, collets, cup centres, expansion chucks, face plates, friction drives, glue face plates, Jacobs chucks, jam chucks, Joyner jigs, Longworth chucks, morse tapers, pin chucks, reversing bars, spigot chucks, spur centres / spike drives, Straka (doughnut) chucks, tenons / recesses, vacuum chucks, worm screws, miscellaneous articles about mounting at headstock.

Lathe Parts: Mounting Work at Tailstock​

Lathe Parts: Toolrests​

Lathe Parts: Steady-Rests​


Creativity: Form & Design​

Creativity: Embellishments​

  • Barley twists, captive rings, carving, colouring wood, embracing defects and cracks, gilding, inlaying, piercing, pyrography, routing at the lathe, texturing, stitching cracks, miscellaneous embellishment articles.

Sanding​

Finishing

  • General finishing articles, buffing, cyanoacrylate (CA glue), food-safe finishes, friction polishes, green wood, lacquer, oil finishes, sanding sealer, shellac and friction polish, varnishes, water-based finishes, wax, wipe-on varnishes and oils.

Adhesives​

  • Cyanoacrylates (CA glue), epoxies, wood glue, miscellaneous adhesive articles. 

Drilling​

Measuring​


Selecting, Harvesting & Processing Wood​


Stabilizing vs. Resin-Casting Wood

  • Stabilizing wood, resin-casting.

Duplicating Work


Thread-Chasing


Workshop Set-up

  • Cleanliness, lighting / visibility, shop examples, temperature, tool storage and organization, miscellaneous workshop set-up articles.

New Turners


 Guilds​


Turning for Profit

  • Promoting and pricing your work, craft shows, galleries, photographing your work, production turning.

Giving Demos



AAW Website

Many valuable articles, books, and videos can be found on the American Association of Woodturners website. A yearly membership fee grants access to all of their material. This is money well spent.

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  • Home - Current Events
    • Mission Statement
    • Meeting Info
    • Recent News
    • Photo Gallery >
      • Dave Bell Presentation
    • Past Seminars
    • Noteworthy Achievements
    • Bill Neddow Award
    • Contact Us
  • Safety
  • Machines & Maintenance
  • Guides / How To
  • Projects
  • Resources
    • Accomplished Woodturners: A-M
    • Accomplished Woodturners: N-Z
    • Cultural
    • Suppliers
    • For Sale
    • Wood Types & Other Turning Materials
    • Other Woodturning Clubs