Understanding hollowing - in woodturning

This new book from the BLB-bois team will tell you all about hollowing! Boxes, vases, plates, bowls: guided by clear explanations and inspired by a set of pretty models, you will discover, understand and apply the tools and techniques to master hollowing in woodturning.

Hollowing is an essential woodturning technique. Obviously, when you're starting out, you turn your first workpieces between centres, learn how to handle the tools, learn how to heel and thread the wood... Then you do all sorts of profiling and moulding parallel to the axis of the lathe. But once you've got the basics down, you'll want to go further, and that's when you discover hollowing. With the part held on one side only, you can work perpendicular to the lathe axis. Turning ‘in the air’, or ‘on a chuck’, opens the door to new techniques, broadening the range of products within our reach: plates, bowls, vases, boxes... and thousands of other decorative or utilitarian objects. The only limit is your imagination! This book will reveal all these techniques and a whole range of pretty models to guide you along a solid path so that you, in turn, can master all aspects of hollowing in woodturning.