by: Ernie Conover
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Turning Furniture Spindles
with Ernie Conover
Making reliable reproductions of shapes on the lathe
Basic spindle-tuming skills can be learned with a little practice, but the trick in turning parts for furniture is in getting a set of stretchers, legs or knobs to look alike.
Veteran turner Ernie Conover's video covers the basic technique of the skew and gouge, but its focus is on making reliable reproductions of shapes on the lathe. Conover makes an ornate chair stretcher, a tapered table leg and drawer knobs -- both plain and decorated with turned-inlay applied right on the lathe; they're all grace notes of detail and decoration that only woodturning can add to furniture.
This 20-minute video is excerpted from Ernie Conover's hour-long video Turning for Furniture.
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