Advanced Turning: Vases w/ Robert

Expand your woodturning skills with this guided vase-turning class! Designed for students with prior wood lathe experience (or those who have completed our introductory woodturning classes) this session will help you refine your technique and take on a more advanced project.

You’ll learn essential skills such as spindle turning between centers, creating a tenon, finishing, boring, and tasteful tenon removal.

Materials:

• A face mask for sanding.
• Wood will be provided, but students are welcome to bring their own domestic hardwood, sized between 2.5” x 2.5” x 8” and 3” x 3” x 10”.

Maximum Attendees :  3

Class Time : 4 Hours

Learning Objectives

After completing this class students should be able to:

• Properly mount material to the lathe, first between centers then after forming a tenon remount that tenon in a chuck

• Shape the outside of the vase

• Drill / bore the inside using a forstner bit and gouge

• Sand and apply finish

• Remove a tenon with a Jam Chuck