Page 3 - Woodturning

Build a lathe-based tool holder to make your turning more efficient. An easy weekend project.

The Rockler family of Ergonomic Turning Tools feature comfortably contoured ash handles encased in shock-absorbing rubber. Choose from tools with carbide insert cutters that never need sharpening or traditional high-speed steel tools.

If you're thinking of getting started in woodturning, here are some great guidelines. Our expert breaks down the "must-have" tools from the "nice to have" and even includes a few of his "dream shop" favorites.

How do you get rid of the small ridges that develop when turning redwood?

In this Rockler demonstration you'll learn how to cut the segment pieces and glue them up to make a segmented bowl turning blank. The new Rockler Perfect Miter Setup Blocks make it easy to cut the precise angles needed to make the segmented frames. These setup blocks are precisely set to the different miter angles required to cut segmented pieces that make up 4 to 12 sided frames.

What's the best method for sanding on a lathe?

How should you mount a blank on a lathe for bowl turning?

Learn how to turn a live-edge wood bowl. Made from a section of log, natural-edge bowls are most often turned from freshly cut trees. With their bark-topped rims and gracefully curving grain, natural-edge bowls make heads turn unlike any other project.

How to turn in more than one axis to create cabriole legs — a furniture feature made popular in the Queen Anne style.

In this Rockler demo you'll learn how to keep your carbide cutter turning tools sharp and making clean cuts. Carbide insert cutters are designed to be replaceable, but often all they need is a little touch up to cut like new again. The Rockler Carbide Cutter Honing System makes it easy with a 6'' diamond stone and a magnetic grip that securely holds your cutter as you guide it back and forth on the stone. You'll find the cutters clean up nicely to a keen, crisp edge. The grip has a molded recess that accepts all shapes and sizes of carbide cutters for our line of Rockler Ergonomic Carbide Turning Tools.

Bowl gouges: grind a second bevel, or even a third. Woodturning expert Ernie Conover explains how in this guide and video.