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WOODTURNING

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Steer the tool with your dominant 10. Refining the cylinder
with a drawknife on
hand, placing your other hand
the shavehorse.
on top of the blade to guide the
11. Start a hole with the 16
tool into the wood. You need awl into the centre of
to slice from the top of the the workpiece first.
rotating blank, not plunge into 12. Add a drop of oil to
the centre as is common with the centre hole before
screwing it onto the
conventional turning. Hold the poppet.
tool slightly twisted and at an 13. Using a basic carver’s
angle to the blank, pointing in gouge to rough out the
blank.
the direction you are cutting,

being sure to move the tool 14. Gearing: use a gouge
to cut a thinner section
from a high to low point. for the cord so the
blank will spin faster.
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Shaping is done with combined 15. The resulting gullet
will keep the cord
use of the spindle gouge and skew
away from your sharp
chisel. Use these tools to achieve tools.
tight curves, notches, beads and 16. Starting to shape with
even captive rings. It’s worth the spindle gouge.
conquering the skew chisel because 17. Using the skew chisel
tip to begin a bead.
the sharp edge and pointed tip
make it a versatile tool. When 18. The slope of the skew
chisel blade must
turning large beads for example, match the direction
use the tip to mark it out and the you are cutting.
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edge to begin rounding over.

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