1) INTRODUCTION

2) TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION

3) TOOLS

4) SAFETY

  • AAW Lathe Safety Guidelines
  • Respiratory Protection

5) UNDERSTANDING WOOD

  • Moisture Content
  • Testing for Moisture Content
  • Importance of Wood Grain Orientation
  • Choosing Wood
  • Preparing Your Wood

6) Glue

  • Clamping
  • Glue Safety

7) TECHNIQUES AND TRICKS

  • Cutting Segments
    • Using a Miter Saw
    • Using a Sled on a Table Saw
    • Two Methods of Cutting Segments
    • Gang Cutting
  • Cutting Thin Strips
  • Disc Sanding
    • Freehand Sanding and the “Rub Joint”
    • Building and Using a Sanding Jig
    • Disc Sander Fitting Feature Ring Components
  • Gluing Segments Together
    • The “Half Ring” Method
    • The “All at One Time” Method
  • Preparing rings for Stacking
    • Clamping Techniques
    • Uses of MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard)
  • Working with Veneers
    • How to Make Ebon-x
  • Splitting rings into multiple rings
  • Inlaying BASE Plugs
  • Improving Efficiency

8) THE DESIGN PROCESS

  • Design Tips
  • Feature rings
  • Creating a blueprint
    • Using Graph Paper
    • Using a CAD Program
    • Specialized Computer Programs
  • A Sample Drawing

9. JOHN’S TURNING

  • Building an Indian Blanket Feature Ring
  • A Cutting List
  • Joining Two Halves
  • The Finishing Process

10. STAVE CONSTRUCTION

  • Calculating Compound Miter Angles
  • Building a Staved Vessel
  • Mortise and Tenon Joint between Layers
    • Back to the Vessel Construction

11. LAMINATION TRICKERY

  • Building Zigzag Rings
  • Multi-Generation Lamination
  • Two Ways to Build Diamonds
  • Laminated Segments AND STAVES (5 examples)
  • A Bowl from a Board

12. PRODUCTION TURNING

13. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS

  • Oval bowls
  • Mitering complete rings
  • Installing round designs

14. BUILDING AN ICOSAHEDRON

  • Sphere turning Techniques
  • Transforming spheres into vessels
  • a truncated icosahedron

15. PORTHOLES AND LARGE TURNINGS

  • Building a Porthole-Style Ring
  • Large diameter ring techniques
  • BUILDING SUNRISE SEGMENTS
  • ANOTHER METHOD OF INSERTING DIAMONDS
  • MORE LARGE VESSEL TECHNIQUES

16. SEGMENTED RIBBONS

17. FINAL THOUGHTS

APPENDIX

  • Mathematical Formulas and Concepts
  • Calculating Compound Miters
  • Construction of Platonic Solids
  • Chart of Compound Miter Angles
  • Description of Turnings

BIBLIOGRAPHY