When turning wood on a lathe, each workpiece is mounted ... a tool rest is a flat platform connected to the central bed of a lathe where you place tools as you work. These removable platforms ...

As the rough, squarish block transformed into the smooth, rounded base of a calabash bowl ... called a lathe to spin a piece of wood, which is then shaped by hand using a variety of tools.

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 ...