New to Turning, any helpful videos or books?

There are a lot of good books and DVDs on turning. I suggest you see if there is a woodturning club in your area. My local woodturning club has a library of books and dvds available for members to check out. In addition, each meeting someone gives a demostration on some aspect of turning. These demostrations are video taped and added to the library. Plus the other members are always more than happy to help a new member learn. Woodturning clubs are a great way to get started in woodturning. pkennedy

-- P Kennedy Crossville, TN

Here is a site that may be helpful:

http://www.woodturningonline.com/

Charles Neil has one.

http://charlesneilwoodworking.com/dvdstore.php

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I’m also a new turner. I got my JET JWL-1220VS on 09/02/09.

Get Lathe 101 by Norm Abrams on the New Yankee Workshop site. It’s a good basic intro to turning.
I’m going to order Richard Raffin’s books and DVDs. I’ve read many good reviews of his work.

Good Luck!

-- SOLTC

Turning is good fun keep at it it needs practice and lots of it to become good you can learn a lot from dvd’s as you say. I have a number and love to turn. Why not look up karl tickles site on ebay if you have difficulty let me know and I ‘ll find him for you he makes alot with his turners some of them are 5 hours long split into 2 dvds for less than £15 .have fun Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

There are slews of good training materials. Depending on what you plan to turn. I would recommend you look at woodturners catalog. They have a slurry of books and disks…they also have a bunch of kits to try different turning options (pens, ornaments, pillboxes, brushes, bottlestoppers…...etc etc).

If you want to do bowls…I would recommend David Ellsworth’s Book as he goes through the fundamentals quite well….you might also look at the American Woodturners Association site and search for a local turning affiliate or look for a local woodworking/turning club (tool outlets and wood working stores have shows and bulletin boards on these also)...they are the best sources of help and inspiration and put on alot of how too’s.

-- Woodworking.....My small slice of heaven!

There’s a lot on youtube. Some are real good and some are real bad.

Here’s a good one: http://marleyturned.com/index.asp

And another : http://bobhamswwing.com/my_woodworking.htm

These 2 guys are really good, and good about showing how to do it.

-- I'm a lumberjock and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!

If you check out Amazon.com I’m sure they will have a million woodturning books. They are all probably good as long as they are teaching the basics you need to get started. They will all cover safety, tools, sharpening, and turning techniques, so I don’t really think you can go too wrong. A book is great to have as a ready reference. Videos are great too.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll search around and see if I can’t find something to get lost for this rainy afternoon.

-- Someone once said "There's nothing you can't do, just stuff you haven't done yet". I like that.

have you checked the LJ Videos? There are several videos posted on our site.
http://lumberjocks.com/videos

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I got myself a s/h Electra Beckum HDM 1000 lathe. Used maybe 10 times. Excellent condition…
As a try out I turned a hammer handle that’s been lying around for years…..
It’s not intimidating…. It’s just my understanding that there is just so much that goes into turning wood than meets the eye… I’m going to favorite this page to get to look at all these recomended sites.
Thanks to all who have posted… Can’t wait to start… when I have the time..
DrRum can’t I just come over… have some pizza and admire your lathe? ;-)

-- "Even small steps makes a distance." (Shawn Phillips, musician)