Bowl Turning for Beginners
Learn how to turn a bowl, including the different techniques involved. From design to mounting a bowl blank on the lathe, from using the different tools involved to produce and refine a bowl shape to finally finishing your bowl.
This course is for beginners to intermediate woodturners, building confidence and safety in use of all the tools required to continue to design and create your own creative works.
During the course you will complete at least two woodturned bowls.
NOTE: To ensure all students have an equal opportunity to experience working with this tutor.
There are only 6 lathes available in the High School woodworking room, so only 6 student places per class.
If you are interested in attending this course, please only book Bowl Turning OR Woodturning, not both.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner - Suited to those who are new to the course area or may have little or no experience.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
Learn how to turn a bowl, including the different techniques involved. From design to mounting a bowl blank on the lathe, from using the different tools involved to produce and refine a bowl shape to finally finishing your bowl.
This course is for beginners to intermediate woodturners, building confidence and safety in use of all the tools required to continue to design and create your own creative works.
During the course you will complete at least two woodturned bowls.
NOTE: To ensure all students have an equal opportunity to experience working with this tutor.
There are only 6 lathes available in the High School woodworking room, so only 6 student places per class.
If you are interested in attending this course, please only book Bowl Turning OR Woodturning, not both.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner - Suited to those who are new to the course area or may have little or no experience.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
Learn how to turn a bowl, including the different techniques involved. From design to mounting a bowl blank on the lathe, from using the different tools involved to produce and refine a bowl shape to finally finishing your bowl.
This course is for beginners to intermediate woodturners, building confidence and safety in use of all the tools required to continue to design and create your own creative works.
During the course you will complete at least two woodturned bowls.
NOTE: To ensure all students have an equal opportunity to experience working with this tutor.
There are only 6 lathes available in the High School woodworking room, so only 6 student places per class.
If you are interested in attending this course, please only book Bowl Turning OR Woodturning, not both.
AGE: Suitable for ages 16 to adult
SKILL LEVEL: Beginner - Suited to those who are new to the course area or may have little or no experience.
SCHEDULE: Half Days - Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2025 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
VENUE: Bellingen High School
course info
Please read all course information below before purchasing tickets for this event.
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DAY ONE
It’s all about the tools – what are they, what do they do
Learn all about the different tools, including the lathe, and how to use them safely and efficiently
DAY TWO
Design is the basis for all work – it’s time to start the design of your masterpiece under guidance of David and put it to the test as you start turning
DAY THREE
Spend time refining techniques used in bowl turning
DAY FOUR
Review of learned processes and exploring finishing techniques
DAY FIVE
Finishing touches and review of learning – this will help as you continue your woodturning journey
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Please bring the following on your first day of class:
PPE (personal protective equipment) including safety glasses, dust mask, covered shoes
Well-fitting clothing – no loose clothing is allowed in this class
Pencil
Ruler
A few sheets of paper for notes and design work
Eraser
This class has an extra materials cost of $120, which is payable directly to the tutor.
Once you book your ticket, the tutor will be in touch to arrange payment.
Cost of $120 includes:
Sandpaper
Finishing oil
2 bowl blanks
Paper towel & misc items to help with the turning process
If you produce more than two bowls in the week, other blanks will be available to buy from David, POA.
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Beginner - Suited to those who are new to the course area or may have little or no experience.
“David is a great Woodturner and a great teacher! Thanks for your guidance...”
YOUR COURSE TUTOR
David Barden
David Barden has taken his skill at wood-turning and created an art form. Nature is the inspiration behind each piece. Drawing on the beauty of nature, David creates fine-turned homewares sourcing inspiration from the wood itself along with the landscape in which the wood grew.
Since discovering his talent for wood-turning in his teens, David has developed an individual and distinctive style, using skills he learned in his engineering trade and his natural creative flair. The joining of his creative genius along with his engineering perfection allows for stunning decorative pieces for buyers, individual products for builders and repair work that preserves history and meaning.
While understanding each piece of timber’s uniqueness, history, and charm, David’s talents allow him to create one-off originals for the discerning collector, a giving piece of nature for the environmentally conscious or a functional item for any homemaker. Like the wood from which they evolve, each piece is original and unique.
As a craftsman and artist, David’s work highlights wood’s natural beauty and versatility – enhancing the many colours, textures and uses of timber – the WOOD WE CREATE.
David has been teaching, sharing his experience and knowledge of woodturning and carving, his passion, for thirty years, including a formal TAE qualification. Woodturning can be taught in a couple of days, but it takes a lifetime to master.
