Turning Bowls with Richard Raffan »

Richard Raffan is an internationally respected woodturning artisan and teacher. Collectors prize Raffan’s gallery-quality production pieces, and he is the author of Turning Wood, Turning Boxes, and The Complete Illustrated Guide to Turning. Raffan lives in Holder, Australia.

Turning a block of wood into a truly spectacular bowl is something anyone can learn with the right coaching. In this DVD video, world-renowned turning teacher, Richard Raffan shows how to prepare a bowl blank, mount it on the lathe, and how to handle bowl-turning tools. He demonstrates all of the basic techniques from roughing out to finishing. The DVD also covers how to turn live-edge, lidded, and deeply hollowed bowls.