Wood and Bowl-turning

In March of 2000, I resolved to begin turning wood, especially bowls, something I have wanted to do since childhood. Now that my house is pretty much finished and there are few material possessions I feel I've just got to have, I thought this would be a good time.

So this is my woodturning page on which I keep a record of all that I am learning and doing. I don't attribute any special significance or use to much of my web site let alone this page. It's just for me. If it's any help to you, then so much the better.

Notes on Technique, Demonstrations, Etc.

• Notes from Clead Christiansen's Beginning Woodturning class at Craft Supplies.
• Notes on demonstrations I saw by master woodturners Mike Mahoney, Rex Burningham and Richard Raffin.
• Notes from a box-turning demonstration by master turner Kip Christensen of BYU. He also gave us steps on turning boxes in a more production environment.
• Notes from a demonstration of a reverse-turned vase by Dale Nish. I mixed a graphic up in this; what is shown isn't the reverse-turned vase.
• Notes from a demonstration of Christmas tree ornaments by club president Bill Denner of the Utah Association of Woodturners.

Gallery

• Here are my own turnings. If you don't have broadband, be prepared to wait as I haven't made thumbnails of the pictures.

Equipment, Tools and Suppliers

• Wood lathes. My own wood lathes and suppliers.
• Tool rests. Here are the tool rests I use.
• Chucks and centers. Here are the bowl-turning chucks I use.
• Sanding. Here are some beginning notes.
• Bandsaw. Here is the bandsaw I bought locally at Timberline Woodworker's Supply. They sell hand tools for all types of woodworking (not just turning) as well as power tools across a wide range of needs and quality. Plus, unlike Craft Supplies, they are open on Saturday.
  
  
• Craft Supplies, Inc., premiere supplier of fine woodturning tools and equipment where I purchased my second lathe. It helps a lot living just up the street from one of the world's foremost suppliers of woodturning equipment, tools and associated products.
• Amazon.Com, is a surprisingly good place to find woodworking tools (choose Tools & Hardware). Its reviews written by others who've already purchased the tools are indispensable.
• ToolSeeker.Com, a good place to find woodworking tools on other websites.
• Grizzly Industrial, Inc., woodworking and metalworking tool supply.

Miscellaneous Additional Links

• Here is a list of woods and their characteristics (for spindle turning, bowl turning, etc.) along with other information on a commercial website of some interest.
• Here is a set of useful wood-turning links although, strangely enough, no Utah turning links can be found within.
• Here is the home page for Rocky Mountain Woodturners, a club in Colorado.