Alan Lacer's Woodturning projects & techniques

439 Pages·2015·16.36 MB·English

by  Lacer

Alan Lacer’s
Woodturning Projects
& Technıques
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to my late father, Ray Lacer, a wounded warrior of
WWII. He was never quite sure what I did for a living, but was always a huge
supporter.
Contents
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TOOLS & TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER ONE
Bowl Gouges
CHAPTER TWO
Bowl Gouge Sharpening
CHAPTER THREE
The Spindle Roughing Gouge
CHAPTER FOUR
Detail/Spindle Gouge
CHAPTER FIVE
Rockin’ & Rollin’ with the Skew
CHAPTER SIX
Reshaping the Skew Chisel
CHAPTER SEVEN
Skew Planing
CHAPTER EIGHT
Woodturning Scrapers
CHAPTER NINE
Chucks & Chucking
CHAPTER TEN
The Trapped Reverse Chuck
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Ulitmate Lathe Stand
CHAPTER TWELVE
Eye-Catching Finishes for Small Projects
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Spalted Wood
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
French Polishing
PROJECTS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
1 Game Call
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
2 Natural-Edge Bowl
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
3 Green Wood Bowl
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
4 Lumberyard Bowl
CHAPTER NINETEEN
5 Toothpick Holder
CHAPTER TWENTY
6 Wine Goblet
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
7 Letter Opener & Butter Knife
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
8 Ice Cream Scoop
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
9 Wooden Plate
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
10 Spinning Top
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
11 Classic Wooden Bat
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
12 Wooden Fishing Lures
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
13 Bocce Balls
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
14 Heirloom Awl
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
15 Lidded Box
CHAPTER THIRTY
16 Lowrider Box
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
17 Reading Glasses Case
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
18 4-in-1 Screwdriver
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
19 Handles for Turning Tools
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
20 Three-Legged Stool
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
21 Table Lamp
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
22 Table Legs
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
23 Door Knobs
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
24 Door Stop
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
25 Christmas Ornaments
CHAPTER FORTY
26 Christmas Trees
Foreword
This book is a collection of my writings over a fifteen-year period for American
Woodworker Magazine. That work was unusual for me in the sense that the
audience generally were not hardcore woodturners, but woodworkers who did
furniture, carving, cabinetry and various other aspects of working wood.
Certainly there were readers with lathes (actually a large number of them if the
surveys were correct) and some were already addicted to this love of mine.
However, I always had to keep the readership majority in mind. Projects and
techniques I wrote about needed to keep all of this in perspective, but my secret
objective was always to tempt the non-turners to try woodturning.
I set out to make specific projects for a range of interests and skill-levels (not
only fundamental ones), and I always incorporated a few challenges. Of course,
there is the eternal challenge of good design: most of the projects did not require
simply duplicating what I made (unlike most furniture projects) but encouraged
the reader to make their own interpretation. Funny, because it’s the natural way
of turning that if you tried to do the same form, it is doubtful it would be the
same anyway!
Here you’ll find projects for the furniture maker (legs, a stool, duplication),
for the sports person (game calls, fishing lures, bocce ball, baseball bat), around
the kitchen (bowls, plates, pepper mills, ice cream scoop handle, butter knife,
toothpick holder), for the shop (awl, lathe stand, tool handles, screwdriver
handles, shopmade chucks) and more.
And the techniques presented here cover topics for those who have little or
no turning experience and even occasionally topics that seasoned turners
struggle with such as using a detail gouge, sharpening, skew chisels and so forth.
Most of the core tools have specific sections devoted to edge shaping, edge
creation and use (bowl gouges, spindle roughing gouge, detail/spindle gouges,