Synopses & Reviews
Informative and superbly detailed, this viewable demonstration offers step-by-step tutorials for creating seemingly impossible toys, puzzles, and brainteasers. Emphasizing the importance of wood selection and workshop health and safety, the guide utilizes basic woodworking skills to create intricate projects ranging from an old-fashioned whistling top to interlocking spheres or a spiked star in a cube. Spotlighting successful secrets of turning--marking with precise mathematical formulae, constructing purpose-built jigs and chucks, and creating special turning tools--this jargon-free DVD can be used alone or in conjunction with the companion guidebook of the same name.
Synopsis
Interlocking spheres, cubes held captive in a sphere, an arrow through a bottle - the seeminlgly impossible are made easy with David Springett's Woodturning Wizardry. With just basic woodturning skills, an ordinary lathe, simple hand tools, and Springett's superbly detailed step-by-step demonstrations, you will learn how to create a spiked star in a cube, a set of Chinese balls, and a lattice pomander. A wealth of valuable advice on wood selection, design, and turning basic shapes is also included. Study Woodturning Wizardy and you too will amaze friends and family with your ingenious creations David Springett has been a professional woodturner for over 20 years. His other instructional DVDs on woodturning include Elliptical Turning - An Introduction. Also Available: Woodturning Wizardry Book, 192 pages] Elliptcal Turning DVD, 57minutes]
About the Author
David Springett is the author of Adventures in Woodturning, Turning Lace Bobbins, Woodturning Full Circle, Woodturning Trickery, and Woodturning Wizardry and produced the Elliptical Turning and Turning Lace Bobbins videos.