woodturning projects:
a workshop guide to shapes

Woodturning Projects: A Workshop Guide to Shapes
Mark Baker. 50 projects that will develop your skills, whether you're a novice or expert turner. Make boxes, bowls, platters and hollow forms in a variety of classic and less usual shapes.

Instructions include measured drawings, wood (more than 50 varieties!) and tools, and variations on the basic designs. Safety and technical information useful for beginners, and open-ended designs suggest to advanced turners some new directions. Lovely gallery of turned work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Stuart Mortimer
A Note on the Working Drawings
Introduction

Part I: TECHNIQUES & MATERIALS
Safety
Ideas
Tools & Equipment
Finishing
Woods

Part II: THE PROJECTS
Boxes
Bowls
Platters
Hollow Forms
Natural-Edge Work

A Gallery of Woodturning
Useful Contacts
Further Reading
About the Author
Index