Bowl Turning for Beginners
This Bowl Turning for Beginners course is the perfect introduction to bowl turning and will allow you to grow your woodturning and challenge your skills.
Delivered by renowned woodturner, Colwin Way RPT, you will learn how to turn your first bowl, following a comprehensive step-by-step guide. You will also explore wet turning as well as surface decoration and embellishment.
What's included?
This course is designed to give you a thorough understanding of how to turn your first bowl, from introducing you to the preparation and mounting the blank to the lathe, to guiding you through the turning process step-by-step, finishing and decorating. We'll also cover turning wet timber for drying and storing your bowl blanks.
You also get access to a private community forum for your course; use it to ask our expert tutors questions, share your knowledge with your fellow students or show off your new creations!
Course Curriculum
- 8.1 Project Overview (0:35)
- 8.2 Mounting the Blank (1:08)
- 8.3 Truing the Blank (4:22)
- 8.4 Creating a Recess and Foot (3:08)
- 8.5 Removing the Waste and Cleaning the Surface (5:07)
- 8.6 Sanding and Finishing (7:28)
- 8.7 Remounting the Bowl (1:10)
- 8.8 Cleaning the Edge (0:52)
- 8.9 Removing the Centre (6:59)
- 8.10 Final Sanding and Finish (5:56)
- 8.11 Troubleshooting (0:48)
- 10.1 Introduction to Wet Turning (0:31)
- 10.2 Mounting the Blank (1:41)
- 10.3 Cleaning the Face and Removing the Waste (10:02)
- 10.4 Creating a Recess and Foot (2:38)
- 10.5 Remounting the Bowl (1:25)
- 10.6 Cleaning the Face (1:52)
- 10.7 Removing the Centre (6:01)
- 10.8 Lathe Maintenance for Wet Turning (0:33)
- 10.9 Remounting a Dry Bowl and Cleaning the Outside Edge (1:53)
- 10.10 Reshaping the Foot and Recess (3:29)
- 10.11 Shaping the Edge (2:00)
- 10.12 Refining the Outside Surface (3:55)
- 10.13 Sanding the Outside (3:11)
- 10.14 Refining the Inside (2:51)
- 10.15 Final Sanding and Finishing (6:40)
- 10.16 Removing the Foot and Finishing (5:22)
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Meet your Tutor
Colwin Way RPT
Colwin Way's woodturning career spans almost 40 years with many of those spent as a woodturning tutor with Axminster Tools. His interest in woodturning started at school and he has been turning ever since, with woodturning taking Colwin to 10 different countries and 26 US states, demonstrating his skills. He joined the Register of Professional Turners in 1998 and he is a regular contributor and guest editor of Woodturning Magazine.
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