A guide to turnery, based on miniature decorative techniques used by 19th-century craftsmen. It reveals that the three secrets behind turnery are the jigs and chucks, making special small-scale tools and mathematically precise marking.

Woodturning Wizardry

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Springett, David

Crafts & Hobbies

Sterling Pub. Co., Inc.

Following on from the success of his 1993 book "Woodturning Wizardry", the author has produced 20 more detailed projects which show how to turn the most extraordinary objects, including faceted boxes, eccentric and oval bowls and Faberge-style eggs. These projects will intrigue every woodturner: the pieces are obviously not impossible, but they certainly are improbable; they look difficult, but with the author's tuition and his secrets disclosed they are within the scope of any hobbyist. The book contains meticulous instructions, photographs and detailed line drawings. Introductory chapters cover woods, tools, jigs and chucks, and also include making your own tools for oval turning, eccentric latticework, facet turning and oval turning.

Adventures in Woodturning: Techniques and Projects

The Guild of Master Craftsman

Here's a book that will inspire and challenge even the most skilled wood turner! From David Springett, the author of Woodturning Wizardry, comes the resource that experienced turners need to expand their skills. Here's a book that will inspire and challenge even the most skilled wood turner! Offering step-by-step projects for fascinating projects, this comprehensive manual guides readers through creating unusual and complex geometric shapes, puzzles, and other curious objects. Turners can try their hand at crafting twisted polygons, gravity-defying clocks, and so much more. Woodworkers will be amazed with the gallery of turned objects—all of which show how other artists have decorated the author's work. This book makes the seemingly "impossible" possible!

Woodturning Full Circle (Fox Chapel Publishing)

Fox Chapel Publishing

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.

Grab a few scraps of wood and start firing up your brain cells. Puzzles! They exercise the mind, engage the hands, and bring joy to all who dare to tackle them. It’s a true mind-body activity. Make it a wooden puzzle and suddenly you’ve transported yourself to another time….a nostalgic era when simplicity was enough…and the challenge of “figuring it out” kept you on edge. Now you can learn the secrets to making your own puzzling wooden projects, designed to mystify and intrigue, with Woodturning Magic. Discover the magic in Woodturning Magic. This super-crafty, super-easy book features 12 seemingly impossible woodturned puzzles to make―all with incredibly simple solutions, once you know how. And you’ll discover “know how” in just a few steps! Learn the in’s and out’s from a master craftsman. Using old techniques in a new and fascinating way, former woodworking teacher David Springett unveils his secrets for turning these intriguing and beautiful puzzles. With clear step-by-step instructions, hundreds of photographs, and illustrations to follow―plus a wealth of information and guidance on tools, materials, and techniques―you’ll be mastering the tricks in no time. Woodturning Magic features: <ul>
<li>12 beautiful, hand-crafted puzzles to make, keep, or give as gifts―including King Arthur’s Puzzle, Greek Temple, Apple Core, and Isaac Newton’s Orange</li> <li>450 colorful photographs and 40 detailed illustrations to mentor turners of all levels―for a visual approach to learning</li> </ul>
Let your inner tinkerer run free. Woodworkers have a way of tinkering with scraps of wood, and this playful nature often leads to the creation of toys and puzzles. Woodturning Magic pieces that all together, and is sure to thrill children and adults alike.

Woodturning Magic: 12 Ingenious Puzzles to Make

Taunton Press

Spheres within spheres, stars within cubes, delicate lattices with no apparent means of support―woodturners over the centuries have developed a whole range of extraordinary structures which seem at first sight to be quite impossible. In fact, all of these things can be made by anyone with basic woodturning skills, an ordinary lathe and simple hand tools―and this book shows you how. <ul>
<li>A best-seller when first published in 1993, the book has been thoroughly revised for this new edition. </li> <li>Stunning new 3-D illustrations show cutaway views of the work in progress, making the instructions even easier to follow than before.</li> <li>A variety of projects in addition to an introductory chapter outlining the required equipment, advice on selecting wood, as well as workshop safety.</li> </ul>

GMC Publications

Woodturning with a “WOW” factor! Conventional wisdom says there’s nothing new in woodworking, but Woodturning Full Circle by David Springett proves otherwise. The three-thousand-year-old craft of turning continues to morph in exciting new ways - and that’s fully evident from the fascinating projects, puzzles, shapes, and boxes showcased in this book.They will knock your socks off, guaranteed! What’s a streptohedron? Wait until you see! Just when David Springett thought there was nothing new in turning, he came upon a sphericon - a double cone that had been split along its axis, twisted (one half rotated through 180 degrees) and then rejoined. Intrigued, he thought it might be impossible to turn, but explored the possibilities and now the rest is history. Working his way through turning all the polygons, Springett developed and refined the twisted shape of a streptohendron - in all of its many variations – pushing the envelope on turning and challenging others to follow his lead. See turning in a creative new light. Woodturning Full Circle covers the fundamentals on turning the intriguing shapes featured in this book: safety, equipment, types of wood, techniques, and artful projects, including a complete chess set, wave bowl, boxes with twist, and more. But what sets this book apart is the underlying creative message: Lathe-turned objects can be something other than fully round. Explore the possibilities of all the new shapes that are waiting to be discovered. Woodturning Full Circle can take you to places you never dreamed of going! Whatever your experience with turning, Woodturning Full Circle will open up new creative possibilities for you. Let the streptohedron forms you’ll see here excite your imagination and, as the author suggests, use them as a springboard toward new forms and ideas of your own. He also suggests: relax and enjoy woodturning, it’s fun.

Woodturning Full Circle

Learn the secrets to a collection of puzzling projects, designed to mystify and intrigue. There are 12 seemingly impossible woodturned puzzles to make - all with incredibly simple solutions, once you know how. Using old techniques in a new and fascinating way, David Springett shows how to create these tactile and entertaining works of art. With clear step-by-step instructions, photographs and illustrations to follow, plus a wealth of information and guidance on tools, materials and techniques, you'll be mastering the tricks in no time.

Woodturning Trickery

Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd

Two expert wood turners, Nick Agar and David Springett, have developed a radical new way to use narrow strips of wood (usually of little use to wood turners) to produce curvy, graceful, asymmetrical vessels. They offer their innovative methods and stunning designs to the home woodworker in 14 unique projects, complete with guidance on tools, techniques, and materials.

Woodturning Evolution: Dynamic Projects for You to Make

Agar, Nick

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Woodturning Wizardry

Adventures in Woodturning: Techniques and Projects

Woodturning Full Circle (Fox Chapel Publishing)

Woodturning Wizardry

Woodturning Magic: 12 Ingenious Puzzles to Make

Woodturning Wizardry

Woodturning Full Circle

Woodturning Trickery

Woodturning Evolution: Dynamic Projects for You to Make