| Woodturning Wizardry Contributor(s): Springett, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565234103 ISBN-13: 9781565234109 Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: DVD-Video - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Informative and superbly detailed, this viewable demonstration offers step-by-step tutorials for creating seemingly impossible toys, puzzles, and brainteasers. Emphasizing the importance of wood selection and workshop health and safety, the guide utilizes basic woodworking skills to create intricate projects ranging from an old-fashioned whistling top to interlocking spheres or a spiked star in a cube. Spotlighting successful secrets of turning--marking with precise mathematical formulae, constructing purpose-built jigs and chucks, and creating special turning tools--this jargon-free DVD can be used alone or in conjunction with the companion guidebook of the same name. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Crafts & Hobbies | Woodwork - General |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.20 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: Interlocking spheres, cubes held captive in a sphere, an arrow through a bottle - the seeminlgly impossible are made easy with David Springett's Woodturning Wizardry. With just basic woodturning skills, an ordinary lathe, simple hand tools, and Springett's superbly detailed step-by-step demonstrations, you will learn how to create a spiked star in a cube, a set of Chinese balls, and a lattice pomander. A wealth of valuable advice on wood selection, design, and turning basic shapes is also included. Study Woodturning Wizardy and you too will amaze friends and family with your ingenious creations David Springett has been a professional woodturner for over 20 years. His other instructional DVDs on woodturning include Elliptical Turning - An Introduction. Also Available: Woodturning Wizardry Book, 192 pages] Elliptcal Turning DVD, 57minutes] |
Contributor Bio(s): Springett, David: - David Springett's interest in turning began when he was a woodwork teacher. By reading every one of the few books then available, by practising, experimenting and persevering, he slowly improved his skills. David and his wife Christine successfully ran the British College of Lace, providing lacemaking courses and producing videos and books. They became experts in the identification and classification of nineteenth-century East Midland lace bobbins and their makers. The results of their research provided the basis for their book Success to the Lace Pillow, which is used by auction houses as the authority on this subject. At the end of a working day, spent turning highly decorated lace bobbins in the traditional English style, David would allow himself the relaxation of experimental turning. From this developed his fascination with the apparently impossible and somewhat improbable in turned wood. This led him to the discoveries featured in this book, and in his equally intriguing Adventures in Woodturning. He is on the Register of Professional Turners maintained by the Worshipful Company of Turners of London. David Springett is the author of Adventures in Woodturning, Turning Lace Bobbins, and Woodturning Trickery. |
