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Woodturning Tips & Techniques

What Woodturners Need to Know
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Comprehensive guide from professional woodturner covers all aspects of woodturning, from working with a lathe and tools to preparing the wood and planning your designs to applying finish to your work

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Pages 192
Publish Date 2007-04-01
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Size 8.5" x 11.0" x 0.0"
Author Carol Rix
Product Form Paperback / softback

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oriented libraries, will want this.
Both new and experienced woodturners will appreciate this guide to woodturning, which covers everything from using a lathe and wood
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center turning, natural edged work and cut shapes. The author shows her own work and draws from the work of others to create a book rich with ideas, tips, and a lifetime of woodturning
Rix goes from setting up, to basic tools, to advanced work. All along are beautiful pieces to inspire, and a gallery of ideas under 'planning and design.' There are practice projects for end grain and face grain work, with detailed action shots so the reader can view the sequence of cuts in the author's procedures. She outlines the uses of each tool, with cautions and tips to avoid trouble. She discusses grain direction and lathe speeds, reverse chucking, jam chucking, sanding and finishing. She has a chapter on sharpening and one on using shop

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About the Author

Carol Rix has been a woodworker since childhood. A scholl teacher for many years, Carol became a professional woodturner in 2001, working mainly with locally salvaged and recycled timbers on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Austrailia. Now she combines the things she loves most: teaching, writing and woodwork

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