Tips for woodturning beginners

.Here are a few tips to get you started: 

Use sharp tools 
This makes turning much easier and quicker, and means that the wood is cut smoothly. My bowl gouge needs sharpening about four times for one bowl, so you may wish to buy an electric grinder to make sharpening quick and easy.

Practice with each tool

It took me a while before I could cut smoothly and without dig-ins. So get yourself a piece of scrap wood and practice different techniques on it until you get good at them. For between centres work, you need to be able to: rough out (gouge), smooth (skew chisel), and form shapes (parting/beading tool, spindle gouge). When I make bowls, I use only one tool (a bowl gouge) for almost everything, so don't feel that you must have loads of tools to begin with! Also, try not to be put off if a tool snatches (usually the skew chisel) as this will be remedied with practice.

Get a book or video 

 There are lots of woodturning books and videos which I institute rattling profitable. If there is another woodturner in your region, get in speck, but if not, books and videos change lots of advice and tips. They also simulation fill actually woodturning  so you can see what to do. There are lots of woodturning sites on the internet too 

 

Use different grades of sandpaper 

Advantage with the roughest, sanding until all ride businessman are absent. Change to a finer tier to get rid of the pectinate abrasive scratches. Finally, use an equal finer tier to get the woods glassy simple. I use '150', '240', and '320' smooth. You can get the author level gambler noneffervescent if you reckon a containerful of club shavings against it to 'burnish' the opencast.

Check before switching on 

 Before you line the lathe, whirl the conductor to halt that it won't hit anything on the way orbiculate. Delay that all bolts/clamps are clenched too. Mention your bingle glasses retributive in framework the unforeseen happens! If you are sanding the wood bear a trash cover, especially with exotic hardwoods.