Ellsworth on Woodturning

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Shows woodworkers and artists how to create an open bowl, a natural-edged bowl, and a hollow vessel featuring a tiny opening and coin-thin walls. This book offers advice on things from working with green wood to design to tool making and sharpening. Over the past thirty years, the field of woodturning has grown immensely in numbers and in its creative range. Today, wood-turned art resides in the finest galleries while its reputation as a craft sits on the loftiest perch. At the forefront of this creative movement was David Ellsworth, a wood-art pioneer who revolutionized woodturning and helped elevate the craft into a legitimate art form by creating thin-walled hollow vessels that were as light as eggshells. "David Ellsworth...revolutionized the craft by creating a series of 'bent' tools that make it possible to produce thin-walled hollow forms...(His) investigations and innovations of technique, of material, and of concept-the channeling of ideas through the medium - have laid the foundation of the studio woodturning movement on which future craftspeople will build and broaden." - Jo Lauria & Steven Fenton, Craft in America This is the first complete reference from David Ellsworth, the 'grandfather' of the contemporary wood art movement. And never before has he provided everything woodworkers and artists need to know to replicate his highly evolved techniques and signature style. Step-by-step directions and crisp, absorbing photographs show exactly how Ellsworth creates an open bowl, a natural-edged bowl, and an astounding hollow vessel featuring a tiny opening and coin-thin walls. For anyone new to the lathe, "Ellsworth on Turning" provides expert tips for getting started. Intermediate and advanced turners will appreciate advice on everything from working with green wood to design to tool making and sharpening.

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Pages: 256, Edition: Geïllustreerd, Paperback, Fox Chapel Publishing