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Woodturning Design is a full-color publication dedicated to the art of the wood lathe. Outstanding woodturning projects with detailed instructions and step-by-step photos are presented in every issue. Feature articles cover interesting woodturners, innovative techniques, and exquisite works of art. These are just a few of the reasons why Woodturning Design has been highly acclaimed by woodturners throughout North America. The magazine’s editor, Joe Herrmann, has over thirty years’ experience as a woodshop teacher and avid woodturner. | ||||||
Winter 2010![]() In this issue, one of the articles is about a drying kiln designed to dry green bowls more quickly than can be done with standard drying techniques. It is an interesting article and is a project I am considering building for myself. I just bought a new lathe and am finding time to do a bit of turning now that my to-do list is getting smaller at home. I have rough-turned a number of bowls and platters and am looking forward to finishing them over the winter. I have missed turning and had found that the only way I was able to get lathe time was during classes. The three clubs I belong to manage to get some good demonstrators in a few times a year, and I’m looking forward to demos and hands-on classes from both Cindy Drozda and Jamie Donaldson this fall. I’m also looking forward to attending the Ohio Valley Woodturners Guild biannual symposium just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, in mid-October and the North Carolina Woodturning Symposium in Greensboro, North Carolina, in late October. The Greensboro symposium will be a new one for me. Both symposiums feature an excellent lineup of demonstrators, and I hope to see some familiar faces at both. We have several excellent Christmas gift ideas in this issue, including two types of ornaments, a shaving brush and mug set, a pen that features a scroll-sawn blank, a rather unique two-piece measuring scoop, crochet hooks that sport stouter handles, and an always popular project—a top. We also have some “do-it-yourself” tools for you to try. And Jim Duxbury’s color-coded chuck templates are sure to be an asset to anyone’s shop, especially if you have several chucks with different jaws as most of us do. Our Ask Dale column answers several questions about drying wood. If you have any questions you would like to pose to Dale, please e-mail them to me at editors@woodturningdesign.com. For complete issue contents, please go to the Current Issue page. Some comments and changes need to be mentioned. There is a Saratoga Springs update on vacuum chucks: Several people e-mailed me with an update on the vacuum chuck demo at the Saratoga Springs Symposium mentioned in last issue’s editorial. The demonstrator’s name was Carl Ford and information regarding his vacuum chucking system can be found at http://carlford.info/assets/demos_ classes/ vaccum_chucks_demo/Vacuum_Chucks _Demo.pdf. I visited Carl’s website (several times in fact) and found the article to be very informative. I highly recommend it if you are interested at all in building a vacuum chucking system. Information about Carl’s chucks can be found on page 15 of his PDF file.
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