Holding Down Work

by Richard Raffan

Find step-by-step instruction for getting started in bowl making in this excerpt from Raffan's classic book 'Turning Bowls'

by Ernie Conover

A lathe and a few simple tools are all you need to make a barley-twist candlestick, a traditional design made up of threads cut into a cylinder. Most of the project ...

with Howard Lewin

Part 4 of 4: Use a jam chuck to turn a foot and part the finished bowl from the lathe

by Garrett Hack

You want to control your tools, not waste your energy on work slipping around. Using a solid, flat workbench, Garrett Hack share some ideas for holding down a workpiece ...

by Jim Tolpin

Jim Tolpin learned the hard way -- in the middle of making a spiral staircase with two laminations – that it’s important to have all the necessary materials on ...