Wood Turning

Advanced Woodwork and Furniture Making, by John L. Feirer, & Gilbert R. Hutchings

I have the 1972 hardcover, It has a very good chapter on Wood lathes. They now have a later edition, that may be better.

This also covers many other tools.

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The first book I bought was by Ernie Conover’s “The Lathe Book”. It has lots of information on tools, lathe operation, sharpening and some projects.

As good as it is, I still had trouble visualizing some of the operations. I found a lot of short videos on the web that really helped me to correctly learn to use tools like the skew chisel and bowel gouge.

Hope this helps.

Lew

check out richard raffens book, the new third edition just came out and it cover all lathe stuff,soup to nuts.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

LJ member Steven Russell has a website chock-full of great tips and a monthly newsletter, back issues of which are here. I think you can enrollat the home page. He also sells DVD etc. to augment his earnings as a talented bowl turner. I posted a call for help awhile back and Steve sent out the five dollar reply to a fifty-cent question. If you have a specific question he might be helpful.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Nothing new here…just some “seconds.”

The Conover and Raffan books are good. And, like Douglas said…Steve Russell and his site are great resources.

Also, think about joining a local chapter of AAW you have nearby. Wealth of info there…

From the AAW website:

Glacier Woodturners Association ( Kalispell, MT )
Web Site: glacierwoodturner.com

Northern Rockies Woodworker Guild ( Bozeman, MT )
Web Site: www.nrwg.org/

Yellowstone Woodturners ( Billings, MT )
Web Site: ysturners.org

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA