Section 4: Making a small bowl

4.1 This section provides a further opportunity to practice the skills required to make a small bowl (6-8” dia). You will learn the three stages of bowl manufacture.

4.2 The bowl bottom:                                 

  • holding on a screw chuck
  • turning a spigot for the 4-jaw chuck
  • sanding, sealing, polishing

4.3 The bowl interior:

  • using the bowl gouge
  • using a scraper to finish
  • power sanding (including precautions
    against dust)
  • sealing & polishing
                                                                     Pat working on the inside of her bowl

4.4 Removing the spigot. In this sub-section you will learn some methods of holding an almost-finished bowl to finish the foot:

  • jam chucks
  • button chucks
  • vacuum chucks

Section 5: The plenary

5.1 This section provides an opportunity to discuss the work done and the techniques used, and to give the student a chance to ask questions on any topic related to woodturning.

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Specification for the one-day (five hour) course in Woodturning.

This is the maximum which might be expected of a novice turner in the time available. Obviously the amount actually covered will depend on individual progress and speed of working.

Section 1: Workshop safety

1.1 Location of

  • first-aid box
  • fire extinguisher
  • workshop main electric isolation switch

1.2 Dust hazards & Lung protection

  • workshop air filter
  • dust extractors
  • masks & helmets

1.3 Eye protection

  • glasses & goggles
  • helmets

Whilst in my workshop it is assumed that you will cooperate by wearing eye protection when turning, and lung protection whenever necessary.

Section 2: Tool practice

2.1 In this section you will practice using four or five basic tools. In particular you should:

  • learn how to hold and move with the tools
  • learn safe presentation of the tool to the work piece
  • develop a growing sense of how the tool cuts and how to use it

Section 3: Making an apple

This section provides an opportunity to put some of the skills gained so far into practice in making a ‘real’ artefact – an apple.

3.1 Here you will learn how a workpiece may be held:

  • between centres
  • in a 4-jaw chuck
  • on a simple home-made screw chuck

3.2 You will also learn how work is:

  • sanded (including precautions against dust)
  • sealed
  • polished with a mixture of waxes

Derek with the apple of his eye

  Updated  June 2008

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