Wood Turners, come one come all.

Hello Fellow Wood turners, You know who you are. If you don't know what a wood turner is then, listen and learn. A Wood turner is a person who has made the plunge into taking exotic wood and turning into something beautiful and amazing. When I use the term turning it into something amazing I mean literally hooking the wood up to a fancy contraption called a Wood Lathe and spinning the wood at a very high rate of speed and cutting the wood with sharp tools into a bowl, a pen, a toy, a goblet, a plate, or just about anything else that is round.

The art, the hobby, the obsession, the fascination, and the interest in serious wood turning just started for me. I can blame it completely on a friend at work. He has been turning for a couple of years and the more he talked about this hobby the more interested I was. I remembered how I turned a little bowl in high school shop and how much fun it was. I still have that bowl on my desk at work. So a few weeks ago I stumbled on a deal to buy a large and very old wood lathe from the local papers classified adds. Little did I know what I was really getting into, meaning the tools and the skills needed to really turn wood successfully. I will try to chronicle the journey here, as I follow all the step of beginner novice turner into full blown professional.