On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:24:04 -0400, "David C. Stone"
wrote:

Hopefully spinning up my lathe for the first time soon.

I was wondering if there is any particular wood that you'd
recommend for learning on? Judging by some of the
posts in the past week, I'm guessing that would NOT include
purpleheart or peach!

if you have no lathe experience, PLEASE check out the web pages of some of the
folks here first... a few examples:
http://aroundthewoods.com/

http://www.seafoamwoodturning.com/

http://home.earthlink.net/~kvaughn65/main.html

http://personalpages.tds.net/~upgeorge/index.html

http://www.enter.net/~ultradad/index.html

http://ghodgeswoodturner.com/

As they will ALL tell you, wear eye protection, work safely, and enjoy the
experience...

If you have NO experience on a lathe, start out the way I started my kids...
with a closet rod and a few pieces of 2" x 2" pine or fir... get the feel of the
lathe and the tools on the already rounded closet rod, then move up to rounding
the 2x2... YMMV

As Bill Grumbine says in his DVD ( http://www.wonderfulwood.com/dvd.html ),
wear at least safety glasses, preferably a good face shield... if you're not
going to wear face protection, make your first project a white cane, 'cause
you're going to need it..



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