Renowned British woodturner Stuart Batty begins to transform a rough block of koa wood into a smooth calabash bowl Wednesday morning ... use a machine called a lathe to spin a piece of wood ...

The studio is open to members 24 hours, seven days a week. Wednesday’s event was a bowl turning clinic for beginners and was open to the public. Attendees had the opportunity to learn how to use ...

With a working replica of this lathe a contemporary artisan has helped to revive these techniques, assisting in the reintroduction of bowl turning to Sweden, the USA, Germany, France, and even Japan.

When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted between ... showing you exactly how much more wood needs to be removed. Bowl gouges are traditionally large, curve-edged chisels with ...

Robin shows how to turn a length of sycamore into a simple bowl using a traditional ... a traditional pole lathe gives a fascinating insight into the early craft of wood turning, it also gives ...