This step-by-step guide to woodturning provides methods for: turning spheres, spindles, rings and ellipses; eccentric, multi-axis and slender turning; and chucking and drilling in the lathe. It also explains new devices and shows how woodturning methods have developed over the centuries.

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Furniture making; furniture design and history; woodcarving; hand and machine tool woodworking; toymaking; projects and crafts in wood; woodturning; wood finishing; veneering; making musical instruments; professional carpentry and joinery; wood identification and study; marquetry; making wooden boxes. (Part contents)