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.
