Don Leman Artisan Profile: Precision By Design
Award winning artisan, Don Leman, shares his thoughts on the specialized art of segmented woodturning. Mr. Leman is a formally trained industrial designer who has also spent years restoring antique...
View ArticleHow To Cut Segmented Pieces For Turning Projects
Segmented turning projects are comprised of many, many small pieces cut to exacting angles. It’s all about precision, because each degree of error compounds into a much larger problem down the road...
View ArticleUsing CA Glue to Repair or Stabilize Wood
Woodturner and artisan, Mark Damron, explains how he uses CA (cyanoacrylate) glue to repair cracks, inclusions, voids, and knots during the turning process. CA glue is marketed under a variety of...
View ArticleHow To Cut Rings on a Wood Lathe Using Custom Tooling
Some segmented turners use a technique called stack ring lamination to “extrude” larger wood turning blanks from pieces of flat wood stock. Cutting the precisely angled rings that make up this...
View ArticleHow To Calculate Stack Ring Lamination Cutting Angles
Segmented woodturners who use the stack ring lamination technique, must precisely calculate the cutting angles used in the process. The rings, which will eventually be stacked and glued one atop the...
View ArticleArtisan Profile: Toolmaking Skill Allows Woodturner Mark Damron Creative Freedom
Toolmaking skill allows woodturner Mark Damron to design projects that otherwise might be impossible to create. Mr. Damron is full of surprises. Meet him on the street and you might never guess what...
View ArticleMake Your Own Cheap Clamp For Segmented Turnings — For Under $10
During any segmented turning project, clamping a stack of rings together during glue-up is one key step in the process. There are various ways of accomplishing this task. Some craftspeople use a type...
View ArticleHow To Glue-Up Segmented Turning Pieces
Segmented bowls and vessels are made up of dozens or hundreds of small wooden blocks. Segmented woodturners glue these often very tiny pieces into rings which become part of a stack. The process is...
View ArticleTurning Coves and Beads on Bedposts, Table Legs, and Chairs
There is something intoxicating about the process of turning — part by-the-book technical, part a fluid freestyle dance. For flat-work artisans, those of us who make cases and cabinets, it’s easy to...
View ArticleHow To Apply Decorative Fluting (or Reeding) to Turned Objects
In this video we learn how to apply flutes (or reeds) to wood turnings. These decorative flourishes are notable design elements incorporated into many historic furniture styles including the Federal,...
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