Turning Ornaments and Eggs

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For the woodturner seeking projects that are a little more challenging, Dick Sing shares his techniques for creating awe-inspiring wooden ornaments and eggs. Step-by-step instructions and color photos guide you through the process of turning and hollowing out a globe for an incredibly light ornament, crafting a delicate "icicle" for the spindle, and even adding a captive ring for that special finishing touch.

The author provides helpful tips for selecting the appropriate woods, using your tools to their best advantage, and fashioning some new tools from surprisingly ordinary materials. Next he shows how to turn a wooden egg, one of nature's most perfect forms that is also one of the most challenging.

Sing outlines his methods for laying out the egg with a template, making a special chuck so you can finish both ends of the egg in the lathe, and using a homemade mandrel to create an egg that is also a kaleidoscope. As a special bonus, he shows you how to recreate the jar he uses for his finish and how to use a wood burning pen to sign your completed projects.

Softcover, 64 pages, 2002.