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Small Woodturning: Tools For The Little Things In Life

While a lot of the trends in woodturning move toward larger items, many woodturners are making smaller items. The satisfaction of making good, clean cuts in smaller spaces can be helped with appropriate tools.

Of course the lathe concerned is the first item to be looked at. It needs to be remembered that large items can not be turned on a small lathe but small items can certainly be turned on a large one. That said, if a lot of small turning is to be done, a small lathe can add to the enjoyment of the craft.

Large lathes tend to have large fittings, especially as concerns headstocks and tailstocks. When executing the quick and tight cuts that small items usually require, these fittings can get in the way not to mention the often massive tool rest of the larger lathes.

In addition, large lathes are designed to be safe when turning large pieces of unbalanced wood. Because of this they need to be not only heavy, but also tend to have much lower speeds than small lathes. A heavy, unbalanced burl or bowl blank may need to be spun as low as one hundred revolutions per minute and sometimes less. Small turnings are often better worked at two thousand five hundred rpm or more.

Once the small lathe has been gotten or it has been decided to turn on the large lathe, appropriate tools for the task are needed. Do not throw away or even put aside your regular sizes tools. They are great for many of the tasks needed for small turning. Most small woodturnings have large features, or at least large in perspective. The three quarter inch cove that looks small on a table leg may look large on a three inch candle stick but it can easily be turned with the same gouge.

As the details get smaller regular sized tools begin to seem gigantic. Obviously smaller tools are needed and the tool manufacturers have risen to the occasion. Smaller and smaller tools are available in all sorts of configurations. The same rules of purchase apply as for large tools.

1. You get what you pay for.

2. Buy high speed steel.

3. Buy only what you need be it a set or individual tool.

4. Make it if you like to and if you can.

Many of the tools used for small detail work will be scrapers and these are easily made as are three point tools and skew chisels.

Again, just as in large or regular scale turning, the idea is to have fun. If making tools is your enjoyment, then make them otherwise a purchase will last a long time and be cheap entertainment. Regardless, small is not only beautiful, it can also be a lot of fum.

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