Wood Turning

How to get started in the art of woodturning.

If you are a newcomer to the great craft of woodturning, then these pages are designed to help you.

Ideas to improve your woodturning skills; links to other woodworking sites; news about woodturning; woodturning tools and supplies; inspiration for your next project.

Browse our extensive video library of product demonstrations, how-to project videos along with videos on tips and techniques.

Woodturning Online offers turning projects, plans and articles for woodturners including information on bowl, pen and segmented turning using the lathe and lathe tools.

A tutorial for beginners on turning a simple Goblet.

Learn how to execute a variety of woodturning techniques, from spindle, pen, and faceplate turning—to hollow vessels, finishing, segmented turning, and more.

It's a bit obvious, but the fi rst thing a woodturner needs is a lathe. It's actually the world's oldest 'power tool' - see the panel (left) for a bit of history. As you begin to investigate what's available, you'll soon discover that there's a bewildering choice of models, with very different specifi cations and prices, and it's very easy to become confused about exactly what you require.

Woodturning Equipment and Supplies sold at Highland Woodworking.

Once you get past the anxiety of approaching a rapidly spinning chunk of wood with a pointy metal stick, the most difficult part of turning wood on a lathe is understanding your tools.

Turning requires a completely different set of tools and can be confusing to the beginner. Learn what's really needed.

Woodturning can be a very enjoyable hobby (one that is often considered separately from fine woodworking), and if the novice focuses on developing the fundamental basics of woodturning, it can be a very safe hobby too. The same woodturning techniques used to turn spindles such as table legs, bed posts or finials can be applied to turning bowls, pens, bottle stoppers and more.

A video on my thoughts regarding tool sharpening when you start out woodturning. Not a definitive guide, just my personal views and observations.

Woodturning is a form of woodworking that is used to create wooden objects on a lathe.