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A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION to a dazzling range of ways to decorate and enhance your woodturning, this invaluable book is packed with ideas for decorative techniques, and illustrated throughout with line drawings and color photographs. 44 step-by-step projects help you develop your skills. Each project begins with a 'starting point' turned or part-turned item, with full measurements, on which an example of the technique is then demonstrated. Ways in which the technique can be applied to a wide range of turnery, and adapted to suit individual needs, are also shown. Learn how to laminate your work with sheet metal, use molten metal as decoration, enhance your work by coloring, use veneers, and achieve stunning decorative effects by scorching, using resins, carving and altering the surface texture of the wood. Once you begin to master the techniques, the possibilities are truly endless! Using Metal: • Inlaying Wire • Sheet Metal Coloring Wood: • Dyes and Stains • Waxes and Pastes • Inks and Paints • Gilding Wood Composite Techniques: • Veneers • Stick-work • Inlaying Wood Bandings and Plugs Miscellaneous Techniques: • Resins • Scorching • Texturing • Carving |
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