Woodturning Tips & Techniques: What Woodturners Need to Know

Woodturning Tips & Techniques is a great book for a beginner, but engaging enough to keep you inspired as your skills progress. For those just starting out, the book provides necessary info on setting up your workshop, choosing a lathe, identifying and preparing wood stock and choosing, sharpening and maintaining your turning tools. You’ll also get the author’s insights on planning and executing your designs. Carol Rix was a school teacher before becoming a professional woodworker, so she is adept at making complex concepts accessible to new learners.

The book includes some interesting decorative techniques for your turned projects, including burning, piercing and carving. Filled with inspirational pieces and troubleshooting tips.

“… high on a list of recommended titles. It is a generously sized, reasonably priced and beautifully photographed volume full of practical advice and inspiring examples. It is a book a new woodturner could grow with, starting with the basics and evolving through advanced techniques…. The author shows her own work and draws from the work of others to create a book rich with ideas, tips, and a lifetime of woodturning knowledge.” - Wood Central