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Detail of woodturning in work A turned wood bowl with natural edges Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms.
In traditional wood turning, the template is a single piece of wood. The size, grain orientation and colors of the wood, will frame how it can be turned into the target object, such as a bowl, platter, or vase. With segmented turning, the size and patterns are limited only by imagination, skill and patience.
Bob Stocksdale (1913 – January 6, 2003) [1] [2] was an American woodturner, known for his bowls formed from rare and exotic woods. He was raised on his family farm [ 2 ] and enjoyed working with tools.
Mel Lindquist is widely credited as being the first to seriously explore the use of spalted wood for wood turning, [5] [8] [10] [13] [14] and his son Mark wrote groundbreaking essays in journals of the 1970s.
Example of bowl turning. This is a list of woodturners - notable people who are known for their woodturning by means of using a pole lathe or a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
Salad bowls, made of Ash in 1986, 5 3/4" diameter. In regular use for over 30 years. Brooklyn, NY - 2012. ... Turning Wood with Richard Raffan, Third Edition(2008).