woodezine - Volume II - Issue X - October 2004

Turning Tidbits

Highbury Leisure Adds Videos to its Plans Catalog

British-based publisher Highbury Leisure has added a line of woodworking videos (produced by Fine Grain Productions Ltd) to their online plans offerings, and several of the new titles are about turning. Before you order one of the new videos, you need to check with the vendor to make sure that it will work on your television. There are a couple of formats around the world, and they're not interchangeable. Currently, Highbury Leisure has over 500 woodworking plans and books available online through a secure server. The site also offers subscriptions to the company's woodworking magazine titles. Most plans are marked with a skill rating, so you can judge the difficulty of construction. The first video, "Getting Started in Woodturning" by Reg Slack, covers lathe and tool selection, tool grinding, use of the roughing gouge, skew chisel, spindle gouge, parting tool, bowl gouge and scraper. In "Woodturning Workshop", Reg Slack & Roy Sutton share their great knowledge and experience to help you improve your woodturning skills. The last two turning titles, "Popular Woodturning Projects" and "Woodturning Miniatures" are self explanatory.

For more info, visit them online (www.getwoodworking.com)

More Woodturning is a tabloid newspaper that is published 10 times a year for turners who mostly turn wood. It is designed to provide guidance in woodturning techniques and to keep you informed as much as possible with what is happening in the woodturning craft - new equipment, new tools, new techniques, new projects, shows, places to sell, etc. For example, publisher Fred Holder tells us that the current issue (September-October 2004) has a good balance of tool reviews and projects along with lots of news - including the Escoulen eccentric chuck, detachable hollowing tool handles, an unusual salt shaker, turning a duck (!), plus great tips, question and answers.

If you're a woodturner, an artist who turns wood, a collector who collects turned wooden objects, or are simply interested in woodturning, Fred will welcome you as a regular reader.

For more info, visit them online (http://www.fholder.com/Woodturning/woodturn.htm).


 

Fall Turning Classes

Barry Humphus, a longtime friend of Woodezine, told us about a class his buddy is taking in Provo, Utah, this month. It's run by Craft Supplies USA, which is a company any turner would want to know about. They have been a leading woodturning tool and supply company for a couple of decades now, and the catalog on their Web site (see below) is definitely worth a look.
Craft Supplies employs the best instructors available and brings in experts from around the world. During the summer of 2000, they constructed a new workshop featuring individualized working areas, lots of space, state of the art lathes, at-station dust collection, improved lighting and air conditioned comfort.
There are three 3-day classes scheduled this fall - one each in October, November and December.Two are at basic skill levels and one is for intermediate turners.
For more info, visit them online (www.craftusa.com/catalog/workshops.html),
or e-mail the workshop coordinator

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