An introduction to turning beautiful bowls and plates. Del Stubbs shows you how to turn beautiful bowls and plates. You can start with dry lumber or with green wood you cut yourself. The camera zooms in close to see the careful contact of edge on wood and then moves back so you can study various tool positions, grips and stances. You will learn about:

• cutting tool types and modification of standard tools
  
  
• grinding and honing chisels
  
  
• gripping various turning tools
  
  
• mounting bowl blanks and roughing out the shape
  
  
• modifying a standard lathe
  
  
• controlling warp in the thin wall of a bowl
  
  
• cutting into endgrain
  
  
• designing bowl forms
  
  

All DVDs are NTSC format, and encoded as Region Zero (Region 0) for compatibility in all regions. ISBN 1-56158-715-X, # 061019.