Bowl Lathe Build Workshops

Workshop

Description

{ Note: this course is currently suspended whilst I re-design the lathe based on old lathes in museums. I may well offer the opportunity to build a lathe with me, but am as yet undecided. If I were to offer a lathe-build course, what I am leaning towards is offering different types of build (all one-to-one) depending on people’s budget and experience. I am yet to finalise all of that yet, my focus, at this stage, is very much to get an e-book written for the wider community so people can build it themselves. If you are interested in building a lathe with me if I do offer it, then please drop me a message via the contact page and I’ll be in touch once I decide either way. Many thanks for your patience!}

This two-day course in our Bristol workshop is designed to not only give you the chance to build your own pole lathe, but also to give you a good understanding in which parts of a lathe build are important, so that you can make tweaks going forwards to turn other items. The lathe you will build on this course will be suitable for bowl turning. If you are interested in a lathe specific to spindle turning then do get in touch.

Some of the pieces of wood are pre-prepared to ensure that whatever people’s skills, everyone finishes with a functioning lathe. There is time built in at the end of the second day, to ensure that each lathe is tuned to each user.

The days will be physically demanding so you’ll need a practical level of fitness or a good level of stamina!