How-To Video Links
How-To and Instructional Video Links
Mike Peace explaining different methods to mounting work on the lathe. Long but worth watching.
Gary Gardner 6 part series on sharpening turning tools. This is Part 1, can find the other 5 from this link.
Andy Coates showing how to colour an ash bowling. Good example of how to get crotch/flame patterns to be highlighted.
Reed Gray (aka Robo Hippy) explainging how to core with the McNaughton System. Long but the best explanation I have seen to date.
Bowl Coring with the McNaughton
Reed Gray explaining how he sand bowls and the use of walnut oil to reduce dust.
American Woodworker magazine video. One way to make a power supply for wood burning pens. Go to Projects page to see article on Getting Started with Wood burning which shows other methods.
Make a Wood-Burning Transformer
A video showing the shapes achieved with various multi-axis turning. This is a series of CAD drawings which shows the resulting shape achieved by arcs or parallel vs intersecting axis. Very useful to visualize a final shape.
Barbara Dill video explaining how to get various shapes in multi-axis turning, parallel axis vs intersecting axis. Very good explanation.
Barbara Dill multi-axis turning video
Stuart Batty has a series of in-depth videos of various wood turning topics.
Les from North Woods explaining how he identifies potential figure in living trees.
How to identify figure in a living tree