Class description
This is a five-day course for students who wish to develop their skills in woodturning.
Your teacher, Simon discusses the basics of spindle turning and bowl turning. You’ll have your own lathe and plenty of hands-on time to work on various projects.
The skills taught will include turning between centres, using faceplates, and how to turn a bowl, lidded box and platter. Tools used will consist of both traditional turning chisels and carbide turning chisels.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
– Turn a basic V cut and bead with a skew chisel.
– Turn a basic candlestick between centres with beads and coves
– Safely mount timber into a chuck or onto a faceplate cutting a tenon
– Turn a Spinning Top using skills learnt from the candlestick and adding new turning skills
– Adding colour and texture to turning
– Mounting a blank onto either a chuck or faceplate for open-face turning
– Turning using bowl gouges along with scrapers
– Sanding techniques for bowls
– Finishing
Suitable for beginners with no experience up to intermediate students. Children 14+ are welcome to participate in this course.
Please note, we require a parent or guardian to be on the premises for the duration of the class if a minor is attending.
