Woodworking is a tremendous hobby that can last a lifetime, but as your skills grow, so does the need for larger and more expensive tools. Try the specialized skill of woodturning and you’ll be making ...

Michael Allison is a wood-turner, a guy who hauls a block of wood onto a lathe and then, through the steady application of muscle, patience and will, turns it into something artful — a bowl, a vase, a ...

A community of wood turners turned their attention to creating beautiful bowls and vessels at a weekend workshop last week, and they did it under the eyes of a master. John Jordan, one of the premiere ...

Typically, when creating a wooden bowl a crafts person would do so on a lathe. A chunk of wood would be bolted to the head stock and the bottom of the bowl turned to an appropriate shape. Then the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are a lot of different skills and techniques that woodworkers can employ to turn raw lumber into something that is both useful and ...

Wood turning can be a lot of fun, and there are some pretty amazing things that you can make once you have the proper tools. But you're going to need access to a lathe before you can get started.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the late spring, working with a new tool in his Somerset studio, sculptor Max Bainbridge astonished himself.

The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx has found a way to give its fallen trees a new life: as hand-turned bowls and vases made by Ivan Braun, a woodworker from the Bronx. The one-of-a-kind ...

Some woodturning enthusiasts in Austria took the philosophy of "go big or go home" to extremes. They decided to turn a giant spruce wood bowl measuring more than 13 feet in diameter and more than 3 ...