Woodturning Wizardry

Informative and superbly detailed, this viewable demonstration offers step-by-step tutorials for creating seemingly impossible toys, puzzles, and brainteasers. Emphasizing the importance of wood selection and workshop health and safety, the guide utilizes basic woodworking skills to create intricate projects ranging from an old-fashioned whistling top to interlocking spheres or a spiked star in a cube. Spotlighting successful secrets of turning—marking with precise mathematical formulae, constructing purpose-built jigs and chucks, and creating special turning tools—this jargon-free DVD can be used alone or in conjunction with the companion guidebook of the same name.