Your ideas for a beginner's woodturning class. Content & handouts.

Arch,

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Joe Fleming - San Diego

Arch wrote:

Thanks to Joe, My request for help wasn't completely ignored. Has no one else here taught a class and is willing to share his/her instructional techniques and materials? Maybe some one will help me privately and spare the group or at least suggest a web site with a course outlined. Maybe not.

Apparently Penta & Leland's book didn't make rcw's best seller list. I ought to loosen the purse strings and be the first to buy and review it. Maybe C.S. will send me one.... Nah! Not likely me.

Maybe I deserved to be shunned for cause, but more likely the subject is old hat or simply of no interest to a woodturning ng. I should have asked why embellish? is it art or craft? is laser measuring cheating? or how come you use jigs to sharpen instead of freehand? These topics are more important, more interesting and yet so seldom discussed.

ps. If it's really necessary, I will hasten to add: :) TIC and 'G' plus forgive a COC!

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

I took a wood turning course last year from a guy who had a small handout that gave the basics - The rest was hands-on following pre-instruction each evening (could be sanding technique - sharpening the tools - what tools to use - etc. Man he was good. We weren't allowed to touch anything for the first couple of nights until he was satisfied the safety aspect was and some techniques were drilled into us. He has 10 lathes - Some were VS and the rest pulley changes...we were directed to switch lathes during the course.

Excellent way to learn...Hoping to do Level 2 this winter.

I guess my point is that with good instruction and the small brochure we did fine.

Keith P.

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Sounds so cool. I'd be interested in her take on worldwide orphanages as opposed to working those around home. How does she volunteer and still "make a living"?

TomNie

Arch,

Actually very interested in the results of this thread because I'd like to give folks lathe exposure like Salmo described. I can see this kind of thing providing a forum for guys to get together even regularly. Not like the dedicated turners in a club but just regular guys dabbling with something.

I've a trailer loaded with 10 Jet1014's available to me for teaching when I finally feel I'm qualified. And that would mean including the very things you're after. So far I've only my own initial class experience and haven't had the opportunity to avail myself of the club's teachers for more experience yet.

TomNie