Woodturning Exercises: A Long-Lost Collection of Woodturning Projects from Yesteryear

A Long-Lost Collection of Woodturning Projects from YesteryearA collection of exercises (originally published in 1916) intended for woodshop students learning the
craft of woodturning and the use of tools to produce a finished
product. The production of objects by means of machinery as well as
by hand should be required of every high school boy. Woodturning
affords a method of employing this important phase of educational
work and at the same time gives the student the opportunity for
acquiring skill in the use of tools and machinery.
The
25 projects are presented in a graded order so that each project will
require the use of additional techniques and add to the accumulation
of the basic skills required of the woodturner. The projects consist
of detailed measured drawings which include chisel handles, a potato
masher, legs for a stool, chair legs or chair rungs, a mallet, a
gavel, a ball and ring, rosettes, a match box, candlesticks, and
more.

In
addition to the measured drawings, there are short discussions
concerning woods for turning, glue as it is used in woodturning, care
of tools and machinery, finishing, and woodturning tools and their
uses.