beginner help

Frank Pain _The Practical Woodturner_

Ernie Conover's "The Lathe Book"

The Woodturner's Workshop:

Richard Raffin: Turning Wood

Leslie

I second the motion for Richard Raffan. He has both a book and a video and I used them as my primary learning source in getting started some years ago. Both are always advertised in Fine Woodworking. If you don't subscribe, you can probably find it on the web.

Since nobody else said it, Keith Rowley's "Woodturning: A Foundation Course". Dave in Fairfax

I have that and the Richard Raffan one, the RR one seems to cover some things a lot better, the foundation one had really good stuff on beads and coves. also, Lee Valley sells it for 28.50$ instead of the regular 37.

in article snipped-for-privacy@fairfax.com, snipped-for-privacy@fairfax.com at snipped-for-privacy@fairfax.com wrote on 1/21/04 3:49 PM:

Does anyone have any feelings about Mike Darlow's "The Fundamentals of Woodturning?"

Max

Personally, I get all choked up just thinking about "The Fundamentals of Woodturning." That said, I find Darlow's approach to explaining things slanted too much toward the technical/physics side of things. I'd much rather read or watch Raffan, Rowley, Stubbs, Jordan, Ellsworth, Lacer, Hosaluk, Klein, Bullock, Firmager, etc., than try to grasp the intricacies of Darlow. ;)

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I second Victors responce. "The Lathe Book" by Ernie Conover

Bob, Naugatuck Ct.