Best Way to Learn to Turn Wood?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- There may not be one best way to learn to turn wood. It depends on each woodturner, but I share some thoughts that I believe will help most beginning woodturners that want to learn woodturning.
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I took a 3 hour lesson with Mike and really enjoyed it and benefitted from it. I highly recommend it if you’re in his area.
Thanks, Alan.
Thanks again Mike.
Thanks
thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You bet
Always FANTASTIC information about turning!!!
Thanks, Jim.
Read turning books, watched videos and then joined club and several of the members literally held my hand(s) and let me use their high end equipment. We don't get classes in remote Alaska. The men and women here are excellent. They always offer their tools before buying it for ourselves.
Woodturners do tend to be a sharing group of folks.
Outstanding Mike. Great vid , excellent advice!
Glad to help. Thanks for your service.
Enjoy your vids and style
Thanks!
Mike, I love your down home approach to teaching. I’m an “Okie” and I went to Bible college just North of you in Chattanooga. I appreciate an occasional “ya’ll” connecting with your audience. In September 2017, I was diagnosed with ALS. After a few months, I realized that I could not allow this disease to rule my life. I’ve always had an interest in building, having been a building contractor and cabinet maker. However, I could not continue with either of those, but I could try wood turning. So I began watching TH-cam and learning from Masters like you. I’m a subscriber, and have been following you for months. You, among others, have encouraged me to start my own vlog, reaching out to others with handicaps like myself. Thanks Mike! Bobby 🤗
Best wishes for dealing with your ALS. There is WT club in Chatanooga in case you have not discovered it.
Thanks Mike and Bobby. I’m a 100% disabled vet. Learning as a beginner in turning and learning my Tormek T8. I’m also ocd when it comes to my wood shop. I live just outside of Nashville. Looking forward to many more of Mike’s vids. Would like to check out yours to Bobby. I have a woodworking group called C-Woodworking Middle TN. Please join so I can chat with you. God bless...
I wish there had been you tube and Mike Peace when I got my first lathe, I spent 3 years using a rasp and sand paper cause I was so frustrated with the tools
It is hard to beat good instruction, especially with hands on so you get feedback. Unfortunately feedback is not something YT can provide.
Thanks for the time and effort Mike.
How I did it: Go watch all the videos on Lathe safety first: examples: safety gear, what causes catches, and sharp tools. Then watch a lot of videos on youtube to get familiar with the concepts and tools. Mike does an excellent job! Captain Eddie is another good teacher.
Then buy a cheap set of gouges from Harbor Freight (Something like 30 bucks for full set). They don't hold an edge all that well, but are good enough to get you started on the concepts. Then go and DO! Don't be a dummy and make sure you are wearing a face shield, that your piece is clamped between centers good, and that your tool is always supported on the tool rest. I didn't know how to use my ShopSmith at first and off flew a piece of wood my first time around. Lathes seem much easier to understand as far as clamping wood in securely!
Don't turn the lathe up too high... I have a ShopSmith and just kept it on the lowest setting at first (A - Something like 700 - 750 RPMs)... ask Mike what speed is good for a beginner. The slower speed was a lot more forgiving if you get a catch, that said it still needs to spin fast enough to cut. Seems the videos I've watched, Lathes can go a lot slower than my ShopSmith.
Find something you want to make and follow Mike's advice about doing a lot of them. Or don't set out to make anything, but just practice concepts you've learned from videos on something between centers. After you get good then you can start turning the speed up for better smoother cuts. I turned things at the slowest speed almost 6 months before I got the courage to go higher speeds... only after watching multiple videos did I learn that higher speeds produce cleaner cuts... but first you have to have a good foundation on the concepts.
Stick to a single tool at a time till you get comfortable with what it can do. I recommend the roughing gouge first. Find something you want to make and follow Mike's advice about doing a lot of them. Or don't set out to make anything, but just practice concepts you've learned from videos.
Now that you have the cheapest set of gouges from HF, you can practice sharpening them and not worry about dumping lots of dollars in if you mess up the profile on them. After a while you'll graduate to higher dollar steel that will hold an edge better. Keep in mind with your cheap set of gouges, tools that are not sharp can be more dangerous, you will have to learn how to sharpen them sooner that later... that said, I'm still not all that great at sharpening and still learning that. I saw all the fancy ways to sharpen, but in the beginning I'd use metal files or sand paper, just to keep the edges somewhat sharp.
Before long you'll be turning all kinds of things. Remember have fun with it!
Find a way and have fun. Thanks for sharing!
Excellent advice.
Thank you. Great information for beginners like myself.
Thanks for watching. Bill. Glad you dound it useful.
Good stuff. I appreciate the help as well as the encouragement. Thanks.
Thanks. Good practice makes perfect.
im sure that a club, or woodworking store seminar is the very best place to learn. that just isnt possible where i live, as the closest woodworking/turning club of any kind is 3 hours away. same with a woodcraft type store. so, my learning has been picking up what i think are the best techniques and tips from youtube, (mike peace, sam angelo, carl jacobsen, cindy drosda, mike waldt, to name a few) and, the hands on. its a slow process to learn that way, but its either that or nothing!
Joining the AAW gives you access to the membership directory where you can search for members by city and state. You may be surprised to fine a skilled woodturner close by.
Lots of wisdom here Mike. I think the important one for me is the repetition gem. Thanks much 🙏 -Mike
I taught professionally for forty years at the university level and I regard your advice as first rate -- not just for wood turning, but for darn near everything. Thanks!
As a vocational school teacher, I completely agree with your assessments and comments.
great advice thanks
Back in 2002 (IIRC), my wife and I took a 5-day class at Craft Supplies USA from Dale Nish. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. We were exhausted at the end of the week. It was a great immersive experience. Each project we worked on was designed to teach us a particular technique. (I think we first made a wooden egg out of cedar. That taught how to turn a bead. Then, we made a twig pot, which involved turning a bead and a cove. Then, we turned goblets, which combined beads and coves with hollowing. Etc.) At the end of the week, Dale asked us to go home and turn all the projects that he'd shown us how to make several more times. He promised that, if we would, we'd master the skills we'd be introduced to that week.
You don't have to learn how to turn in such a manner. But, if you have the chance, don't pass it up!
I fully agree, David.
All good comments Mike. I learned a bit from my father when I was about 14 or so. My dad had a lathe which had been made by his father. I did very little turning at that time and didn't pick it up again until I was in my late 30's. At that time I got a video by Del Stubbs. I learned from that video and lots of practice. The problem was that if I did something wrong I had no one to coach me so I developed some bad habits. The point is you really need to have some hands on with an instructor. A few hours with a competent instructor is almost priceless.
Yes, the right way is not always intuitively obvious to the casual observer.
Thanks Mike, good information and advice. I totally agree with the repetition part. As a what I call a new turner ( only three years) I have turned over 100 bowls, 75 boxes and over 350 pens not to mention other things like rolling pins ,etc. Bottom line, I'm still learning at 74 years of age.
Larning keeps us young. Well, maybe keeps our grey mater active. 😄
@@MikePeaceWoodturning yes, but I don't think of age as being or getting old, it's
just a number to continue.
Great advice, Mike. I wish I had seen this when I first started turning. It’s reminded me that we should never stop learning. Thanks for the reminder! 👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Safe turning,
.....Gord
Learn to turn and for some like you and me, learn to teach and make videos! There is alwasys something to learn.
Great advice Mike. I continue to practice but I am looking forward to additional training with you again. Thanks
Excellent. I look forward to it, Mike.
Very good advice Mike. Thanks! I started out with an inexpensive mini lathe and turned lots of pens. That gave me the basic skills I needed to get started and I moved on from there. After joining my local club and AAW I'm further up my learning curve and skills curve but too far down to see the top of either one!
Take care, Dave
10,000 more times grasshopper!
I’ve learned from watching TH-cam videos and trying it out for myself.
As did I. There are quite a few really good YT turners.
find a good club to become involved with, hang out for a year, test drive some new friends lathes, then buy your lathe and tools and get to having fun - thanks for the video Mike.
Wow, I only hung out for about 6 weeks before I bought a lathe. If that used deal had not fallen in my lap, I wonder how long it would have taken?
Club? If I waited until a club stumbled into view, I’d never get anything started. Buy the best gear you can afford, read a book or two, search TH-cam, and DO IT.
Three years ago I sold 30 Christmas trees. This year I have 50 out in stores in February. I made 75 in a weekend. Tool technique is everything. Good tool technique means speed. Bad tool technique means woodchips.
Sounds like you have that rinse and repeat down pat. 👍
Question: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Answer: Practice, practice, practice!
I found the best way is just pick it up and try. Find a group that is great and helpful. I love my group!!
You are doing great!
Im not doing to bad my main problem is the dreaded Skew dont seem to have as many problems skatebacks etc with all the other chisels cheers Mike
You have to cut with the lower third of the blade. Did you see my three part series on the skew?
Yes getting a bit better now keep the cutting part supported cheers mike