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- Wood Turning Lathes - Keeping Them Safe
by Darrell Feltmate. Wood turning is one of the fastest growing hobbies in North America as well as many other parts of the world. Wood lathes are making their way into garages and basements in record numbers and bring safety concerns along with them. Fortunately a wood lathe is one of the safest machines in the shop today. Unfortunately this can make people careless. Wood lathes are used to spin wood quickly while s... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning - Keeping the Wood Healthy
by Darrell Feltmate. Wood starts as a living material and should really be treated as such once it gets to the shop. We are becoming continually aware of the need for ecological soundness in our life practices and wood turning is no different.
From its very roots, wood turning is an ecologically sound practice. Most of the wood used by turners comes from waste wood. While more and more communities are becoming bette... products, articles, news
- Keeping Your Children Safe From Household Adhesives
by Charles Kassotis. Thinking back to your school days, wasn't it fun to use white paste to stick together multi-dimensional pictures for the holidays? Little construction paper pilgrims were pasted to a sky-blue backdrop with a separate paste-on of green hills or puffy clouds to make the picture more interesting. Washing up afterwards was messy, but fun, as you peeled off the white paste residue that had dried on yo... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning - Four Great Reasons to Turn Green Wood
by Darrell Feltmate. One of the things that surprises an old hand in wood working when he or she becomes a wood turner, it the realization that many turners of wood prefer turning green wood to dry. There is a great deal of science as well as art expended in making sure that wood for the carpenter or cabinet maker is dried to a moisture content of less than 12% while many wood turners will work with wood that throws ... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning Projects - What Is a Beginner Wood Turner to Do?
by Darrell Feltmate. Wood turning tends to be a fairly solitary venture taking place in a work shops around the world. There may be a class or two or monthly meetings of the wood turning club, but for most it will be an hour here and there, privately in the garage, basement or wherever the shop may be found. For the beginner the big question seems to be "What do I turn now?" Most seem to spend some time turning squar... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning - Green Wood is a Treasure
by Darrell Feltmate. Wood turners like to work with green wood. No, it is not colored green, it is wood that is freshly cut so uncured or "green." In fact, for some turners the ultimate in wood turning fun is cut a tree down and immediately mount a piece on the lathe. It is like turning in a rain storm. Some wood turning shops will have a streak of stain from the sap running up the wall, across the ceiling, down the... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning - It Is Not Just for Looking
by Darrell Feltmate. Obviously wood turning has been around as craft for a long time. Even the Ancient Egyptians had pictures of wood turners on their pyramid walls. Many towns had their own wood turner and took good care of them. The name Turner appears in our phone books with slightly less frequency than Smith but for the same reason. There were a lot of turners.
A wood turner was needed for the making of "treen,... products, articles, news
- Wood Turning Tools - Old Becomes New
by Darrell Feltmate. The world of wood turning has been with us for a long time. Historians tell us that the ancient Egyptians were wood turners and even left painted carvings of wood turners on the pyramid walls. One would think that the advent of higher technology would have greatly changed the wood turner's arsenal of tools, but it just has not happened.
Wood itself, the essential ingredient of "wood turning," ha... products, articles, news
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