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Tips, Tricks and How To Articles

Here’s a list of some Tips, Tricks and How To Articles our members have published here or elsewhere.

• DIY Vacuum Chucking by Ian Manley
• Articulated Dust Collector Arm by Jim Silva
• Bird House Ornament by Jim Leatherwood
• Turning a Pendant by Jim Silva
• Pen Press by Ian Manley
• Turned Pill Bottle by Jim Silva
• Turned Wooden Flashlights by Ian Manley
• Steadyrest for a 20″ Powermatic Lathe by Ian Manley
• Turn a Natural Edge Bowl w/Foot by Jim Silva
• Ian Manley did a great demo for the club in May 2013 on his methods of Segmented Turning. Included in this demo were the following handouts available below in .pdf format.
  • Ian’s Segmented Turnings
  • Segmented Links and Tips
  • Segment Chart
  • Segmented Salad Bowl
  • Segmented Math

Helpful Links:

• Don Deidrich demonstrated a great Free 3D Modeling Application that is great for visualizing projects before turning called Google Sketchup