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title: Wood Turning
description: Wood turning is the craft of shaping wood as it spins on a lathe using specialized handheld chisels. You will understand lathe safety, tool presentation, spindle turning, and bowl turning to create symmetrical objects like bowls and spindles.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: woodworking
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/wood-turning
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# Wood Turning

Wood turning is the craft of shaping wood as it spins on a lathe using specialized handheld chisels. You will understand lathe safety, tool presentation, spindle turning, and bowl turning to create symmetrical objects like bowls and spindles.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Woodturning Online

Directory site indexing free woodturning project plans, how-to articles, and videos from turners and magazines, organized by project type and technique. Readers can find step-by-step instructions for bowls, pens, hollow forms, and tool sharpening in one place.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://woodturningonline.com/

**Tags:** woodturning, lathe-projects, turning-techniques, project-plans

### 2. American Association of Woodturners (AAW)

Nonprofit organization for woodturners offering safety guidelines, fundamentals articles, the American Woodturner journal, a directory of local chapters, and an annual symposium. Helps new turners find local mentoring, learn safe lathe practice, and access vetted instructional material.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.aaw.org/

**Tags:** woodturning, lathe, lathe-safety, woodworking

### 3. finewoodworking.com

Fine Woodworking is a comprehensive online magazine and resource for woodworkers, offering expert techniques, step-by-step project plans, and in-depth tutorials. It also features tool and accessory reviews, shop tips, and instructional videos to help builders of all skill levels improve their craft.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://finewoodworking.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

## Books

### 1. Woodturning Techniques

**Author:** Mike Darlow

Third volume in Mike Darlow's woodturning series, covering chucking, spindle and faceplate work, hand thread-chasing, turned joints, and reverse-chucking bowls. Readers with basic lathe skills gain a wider repertoire of methods, explained with photographs and diagrams.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565231481?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, woodworking

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