Turning Projects: With Richard Raffan

By Richard Raffan

In this tape, you'll learn to select the wood species best suited for a wide variety of turning projects. Raffan shows you how to manipulate skews, gouges and parting tools to produce the whole repertoire of wood-turning cuts, and how to recognize the structural aspects of a project as it develops on the lathe. Raffan also shows you how to sand and apply finishes and waxes, and he offers important safety tips throughout the tape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942391381
• ISBN13: 9780942391381
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The most turning projects in one place ever!

170 pages. Short chapters on many turning ideas with varations. Black and white photos of objects and how-to, and example objects. Many nuggets of information that you can really use. Very short introduction, no general information, really a "project" book. I wish I had found this book sooner, good beginner projects as well as some I won't try for some time yet. Projects: Spurtles (Scottish stirrer), Spatulas, Rollers, Mallets, Outdoor solid decorations (including a mouse), Long & Thin Spindles, Baby rattle, Beads (including puppet), Spheres, Spinning tops (my favorite), Little end-grain bowls, Scoops, Plant Forms, Tall vases, Pepper mills, Cutting boards, Trivets, Bottle Coasters, Trays, Hand mirrors (2 piece, I still like Dick Sing's better), Hollow vessels, Ladles.