Hi Marco, I assume that you are a potter turning clay on a vertical
lathe (wheel).
You use your hands and various 'paddles' as tools to shape by forming as
well as adding or subtracting a plastic medium. We woodturners usually
shape a rapidly rotating solid medium with sharp metal tools and are
limited to removing some.

Obviously there are many differences and similarities in the two crafts,
but using both approaches in the making of a thrown/turned object might
help us get around the restrictions of either discipline and broaden the
horizons of each. We already use many crafts in turning and decorating
our wood. Sculpturing, carving, painting, machining; the list goes on as
turners begin to overcome the restrictive bias of purists and are
intergrated with their fellow craftsmen-artists.

Like your craft, turning wood is a deceptively simple endeavor. Easy to
get started, but once begun it takes over with an infinity of ways to go
and distances to travel. (and things to buy!) I hope that you will
continue to ask here, read and/or get some instruction and begin to turn
wood so you can marry the two crafts as you progress. Perhaps some here
would enjoy trying that marriage, pehaps not.

Welcome to woodturning and this ng. If you are interested, continue to
ask for woodturning advice while sharing your particular expertise.
Everyone here is both ignorant and expert. It just depends....


Turn to Safety, Arch
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