Robin Fawcett demonstrates how to make a spinning top on a pole lathe. An ash log is riven into quarters, using a maul and froe. It’s cut to length with a pull saw and shaped with a side axe, before being put in the pole lathe…
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Turning wooden flowers on a lathe
Stuart King demonstrates how to turn wooden flowers on a lathe using simple tools.
Gary Rance Round Skew
Master production woodturner Gary Rance demonstrates the use of his round skew. This is available to buy from www.garyrance.co.uk.
Yasuhiro Satake, Japanese woodturner
Yasuhiro entertained delegates at the 2009 AWGB seminar with his unusal (to us in the west) turning techniques and tools. It is always good to experience the craft skills of other cultures from which we can often learn a great deal.
Spinning metal on a lathe
Bronze age folk turned metal on a lathe. The early Greeks also did it, the Romans were experts at it and the Anglo Saxons were doing it in the Dark Ages. For this short video Stuart King has filmed a 19th century lathe whilst it was being used to spin flat sheet metal discs. These […]
The Bodgers Ball 2009 – the Log to Leg race
The Log to Leg Race is just one of the fun events that take place at the annual Bodgers Ball, a gathering of British pole lathe turners and green woodworkers. It is organised by the Association of Pole Lathe Turners (APT). This film was made by Stuart King.
Moroccan bow lathe turner
This young woodturner can be found plying his trade in the medina of old Marrakech. With just one tool (a skew chisel) he turns a chess piece on a bow lathe that would have been a familiar sight in ancient Greece or the Pharaohs’ Egypt.
Snow time in Holmer Green
Village life and landscape in Holmer Green during the big freeze of December 2009.
Romanian Sawmill
I filmed this sawmill in 1998 during a tour of Romania to record local woodworking traditions. This is rare footage of a gang saw in action.
