Thread: Newby

a good book and video will help heaps. joing a club will help even more and so will some lessons.

rolling pins, mini baseball bats, pens, are really easy things to make. if your not fussed about making things, than you can just practise making coves and beads.
another couple of things are : spinning tops, s&p shakers, tool handles and handles in general

for faceplate and chuck turnings, bowls can be as hard as you want them to be and goblets are usually fun to make.

here's a link to many project 'plans' http://www.woodturningonline.com/Tur...ects.html#pens

Wagga has an excellent club.

bedst tip ever. put wood in lathe turn it on and TURN stuff. I am newby myself having turned now for around 2 months and the best thing is to get som turning done. get som scrap and start tuning stuff.

Also try this site. http://aroundthewoods.com/ i have been reading his site for some time before i stated.

Join a club or take lessons. I didt tha Club thing and there are selveral god things in that. You get going!! I work way to much and befor i joined i dident get anything done at all. there ware just to many other things to do. But if you have say 1 day a week where you have to turn because you are at the club (forening in danish) it much easyer to get started, and when you are first get startede the great vortex draws you in.

Ask. read leard THINK. i have found that the mistakes i make are more or less due to not thinking, or thinking on any thing else than the turning i am making. but reason out what you want to make how you want to make it how you are using your tool.

and turn .... i have been spending more time off the late at home trying to get a workshop up and running than turning stuff. But practise is what you want... i have en bucket of junk that i turn into shavings just for the practise of using this or that tool.

just my 2 $ from one newbiiii to an other.

Thanks people I will have to track down the Wagga club.
Please keep the hints and tips coming please.

Welcome to the madhose of this forum and its menagerie of strange and knowledgable inhabitants.
Do all of the above!

What they all said, but especially Rasmus's suggestion to just make shavings. This is the best way to learn tool control without the added challenge of actually producing something. Expect to make tonnes of errors; you'll learn something from each one (OK, might need more than one to actually learn each something).

And welcome aboard.

Joe

I will do all this but I am just going to find out what each tool is used for first.
That may help me aswell

All they said and more. If your good at learning from books.Have a go at reading up on wood turning, when the shed is too cold etc.

Have a look at these links

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=...with-thumbnail

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Turned-Chessmen-Mike-Darlows-Woodturning/dp/0854421157"]Amazon.com: Turned Chessmen (Mike Darlow's Woodturning): Books: Mike Darlow[/ame]

http://www.woodworkerslibrary.com/turning.php

web site for advise etc
http://roundopinions.blogspot.com/20...ng-advice.html

free wood turning book
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15460

http://www.free-woodworking-stuff.co...king-books.htm

that should keep you going over the holidays...........

Thanks for that Hughie.

I see how I go.

Welcome..............
This one has a lot of good info > http://www.woodcentral.com/russ/russindex.shtml

Thanks for that Gill.
Ill give it a read later

Welcome Sputnick

US pax always used to ask me why is it called Waagga Waagga do they have lots of dog's when I corrected them Wogga Wogga they would reply oh little Italy. Stone the flamin Crows.

new too it myself what sort of lathe did you buy

LOL

You are close about the crows.

I think it means place of many crows in aboriginal terms

Welcome. What kind of lathe did you get to learn with? Nice to see you here posting. Can't wait to see photos of your work
bye Toni