Articles

CICAAW members have contributed these articles to benefit woodturners visiting the website.
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Turning Spheres... the easy way
Sep 2010
Tim Kennedy

Turning a sphere doesn’t need to be difficult or require special skill, and you don't...

Transparent (slightly) Norfolk Island Bowl Treatment
Feb 2005
Melvin Glick

This is the technique I used, modified from Ron Kent and other Hawaiian Turners.

Mix equal amounts of:

  • Boiled linseed oil
  • Mineral Spirits...
Rotary Vacuum Adaptor
Sep 2004
Al Crandall

This explains how to construct a duplicate of my shop built rotary vacuum adapter for using vacuum chucks on a lathe. Nearly everything is from the shelves at Lowes. The rod connecting the chuck...

Mini lathe shop-built hollowing rig w/laser
Sep 2004
Al Crandall

This is a shop made hollowing system with a laser guide which I designed and built for my Jet mini lathe. It is being tested by an unidentified club member at our all day turn-a-thon last month...

Truck crane for log loading
Jun 2004
Al Crandall

A few weeks ago, someone asked about getting large turning blank logs into the back of their pick-um-up truck. They had injured their back and wanted possible solutions which would bypass the...

25th Anniversary Symposium

Visit the AAW website to learn more about the 2011 AAW Symposium in St. Paul, MN.

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