Phil's Turning Tapes

Cost: $20 each, $35 if you buy both.
Shipping: $4, Order at philholtan@msn.com

"Turning Great Stuff" is an introduction and spindle turning video. Contents:

• Safety
• Tuning up your lathe
• Tools for cutting and scraping
• Sharpening
• Fundamentals of turning
• Learning to ride the bevel for control
• The taming of the skew
• Coves, beads and rings
• Cutting beads with the gouge, beading and parting tool and skew chisel

"Turning Great Bowls" is the second video in the series. For best results, watch "Turning Great Stuff." Contents:

• Phil's Ten Commandments of Turning
• From the tree to the bowl-visualizing and cutting the blank
• Roughing the bowl
• Shear scraping for the ultimate cut
• Hollowing the bowl
• How thick should I cut?
• Sanding and finishing the bowl
• Special Bonus: Turning one of Phil's Wing Bowls