"Ecnerwal" wrote in message
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Unplug Your TV & VCR/DVD. Put them in boxes, tape up the boxes, put them
in the attic/basement, or on craigslist/ebay.

Plug in a lathe, grab some wood, turn.

That is your "best lathe video" as far as I'm concerned. You'll learn a
lot more making shavings than watching someone else make shavings.

Think safety and do what Lawrence says. Safe involves staying out of the
path of ejecta, even if you think you have the piece sturdily mounted.

Safe means keeping the toolrest close in so you don't give leverage to the
wood, but keep it on your side.

Safe means paying attention to the wood. It'll teach you. The best cut is
the one that takes the least effort from you, because there's equal and
opposite involved too. When the shavings flow, not fly, you're on target.

I'd stay with the web for "tips" and styles, but there's little out there
on theory, save perhaps _The Practical Woodturner_ by Frank Pain. It's the
book I own. Tells you about the various tools and the way to apply them to
the wood. Theory, you supply the practice.