Turning Topics
An excerpt from AAW's ‘Safety for Woodturners’
Safety Lessons: Twenty Ways Not to Turn a Bowl
I have been teaching woodturning for more than 20 years, and many of the classes have been basic, for beginners, or an introduction to woodturning. You can ask anyone who has been involved in one of these classes and they will tell you that my most frequently used direction is: “Stop, don’t do that!”
by Nick Cook
Anyone who teaches basics expects to have raw beginners in a class. We also expect novices with just a little experience and even expect a few who have been turning for a number of years.
The teacher’s challenge is getting all of the students on the same page in the same book at the same time. Adult learners seem to have their own ideas about how to turn, and some are not the least interested in how I want them to turn. Some are self-taught; some have attended other classes. Others have read woodturning books and watched videos. And others … must have been timetraveling to their eighth-grade shop classes when someone was attempting to instruct them. THE RIGHT STOCK One of the biggest problems teachers face is that many students are itching to turn a really large bowl the first time they step up to the lathe. Or, they lug in something that cost them big bucks.
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