Believe it or not, until recently I had never done any turnings. I have been messing with wood for a solid twenty years and never once have I even turned on a lathe. I’ve seen Norm do it a bazillion ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the late spring, working with a new tool in his Somerset studio, sculptor Max Bainbridge astonished himself.

On the shortlist of dream tools for most metalworkers is a waterjet cutter, a CNC tool that uses insanely high-pressure water mixed with abrasive grit to blast sheet metal into intricate shapes. On ...

If you're a creative person and a jack-of-all-trades, chances are that you've given woodworking a try at some point in the past, or you intend to get your hands dirty with wood filings in the future.

In this hybrid woodturning video, I recycle Australian mallee burl off cuts to create a large hybrid epoxy resin wooden bowl using an Axminster trade lathe. The bowl is sanded to 3000 grit and ...

When someone says ‘wood lathe’ the average person would think of a lathe used for turning pieces of wood into ornate shapes. But what if that lathe was also made of wood. Would that be a wood wood ...