woodturning
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Techniques
- Holding devices
- Tools
- Other techniques
- Safety
- Notable woodturners
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. The skills to use the tools by hand, without a fixed point of contact with the wood, distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinist's lathe, or metal-working lathe.