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Sometimes our creative juices need a little inspiration, we've collated a selection of books from well know turners to do just that!

All-in-One Wood Burning Guide

If you've ever wanted to take up the creative art of pyrography, here's the perfect place to start. Big Book of Pyrography Projects is packed with tips, tricks, and inspiration. All you need is this big book and an inexpensive wood burning tool to start adorning wood, paper, gourds, and more with beautifully burned images and patterns.

Leading pyrography artists and authors show you how to complete 23 of their favorite projects, from realistic portraits and landscape scenes to stylised frames, platters, boxes, bowls, and bird houses. Applications in both fine and decorative art are presented in traditional designs as well as modern innovations. Whether you're a complete beginner or an accomplished pyrography artist, you're bound to find exciting ideas in this book.

You'll also find helpful advice inside on choosing a wood burning system, creating your own patterns, making practice boards, staying safe, and keeping your wood burner clean. A full-color gallery presents a stunning array of projects from international artists to stir your imagination and spark your creativity.

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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">23 terrific step-by-step projects from leading pyrography artists
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Make beautiful portraits, landscapes, gifts, home decor, jewellery, and more
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Helpful tips, tricks, and techniques for all skill levels
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Expert advice on safety, practice boards, wood burners, and patterns
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Inspirational gallery of stunning projects from international artists
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 128 pages
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing (March 2016)
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Big Book Of Pyrography Projects

Richard Raffan has been teaching woodworking and turning for over 35 years. He is a master at explaining the complex and sometimes confusing steps to turning in a clear and understandable way.
All New Turning Projects continues this long tradition with a new collection of beautiful and useful turning projects. Each project includes complete instructions with step-by-step photos and drawings, and together the projects will lead you through a complete skill-building course in woodturning. You’ll learn how to apply Raffan’s acute sense of design and proportion to your work, your details will be crispier, and you’ll be able to produce better work, faster.

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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Author: Richard Raffan</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 192 pages</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: The Taunton Press (2015)</li>
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Turning Projects with Richard Raffan

The world’s pre-eminent woodturning teacher provides everything you need to know for turning bowls. From wood selection and design advice to surface embellishment and finishing techniques, the detailed text and step-by-step photos are inspiring. Turning Bowls is for all levels of turners, from beginners looking for advice every step of the way to advanced turners looking for new techniques or design ideas.

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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Thorough coverage of tools, wood selection, and design</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Advice on how to avoid and solve common turning problems</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Information that ranges from the basic to the advanced</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Expert-level instruction in an easy-to-understand format</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Author: Richard Raffan</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 186 pages</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: The Taunton Press (2002)</li>
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Turning Bowls with Richard Raffan

Everyone loves a spectacular bowl. In this provocative, in-depth examination of bowl design, master turner Richard Raffan teaches how to create bowls that will delight long after the colours and figure of the wood have faded. Great bowl design is about shape. Raffan shows how to create enduring and beautiful shapes from both and artistic and practical point of view – from creating the turning blanks to refining the details.
First published as Turned-Bowl Design in 1987, this book has been completely updated with new information and all-new colour photography.

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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Author: Richard Raffan</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 160 pages</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: The Taunton Press (2008)</li>
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The Art of Turned Bowls by Richard Raffan

Carving Woodspirits: Beyond the Basics bridges the gap between the ‘beginner’ and ‘intermediate’ woodcarver. When one first learns to carve faces, everything is done simply and with few steps, but as the beginner practices and eventually “gets it”, there is a need for expanded knowledge. There are lots of beginner books, but they don’t take the beginner through the transition to intermediate carving. This book gives an expanded way to carve a woodspirit and the reasons why the more experienced carvers may use certain techniques or tools.

Susan Hendrix, with over 25 years of woodcarving and teaching experience, takes the student beyond basic face carving instructions. This step-by-step tutorial guides the carver through carving a detailed wood spirit face on a walking stick. Each step is clearly taught through comprehensive explanations and colour photographs. Drawings and diagrams are included where words cannot convey accurately the techniques used.

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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Step-by-step instructions</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Drawings of various facial features such as the eyes, nose and mouth</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Diagram of facial proportions showing how to properly layout a face</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">In-depth study on how to carve realistic flowing hair</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Detailed instructions on how to carve eyes</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">25 years worth of carving tips and techniques</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Skills that can be applied to both realistic and caricature faces</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Wood Spirit gallery</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Wood Spirit patterns</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Author: Susan L. Hendrix &amp; Paul “PJ” Peery</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 64 pages</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: Woodcraft Publishing (2013)</li>
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Carving Woodspirits: Beyond The Basics

Perfect for beginners to the lathe as well as more advanced turners, all the basic techniques and information needed for getting started are covered.

From blank preparation to turning, sanding, polishing and assembling – everything is explained clearly and in jargon-free terms.

Whether you prefer classic oak fountain pens or have a weakness for funky acrylic pencils, this practical new guide to pen and pencil turning is all you need to get started with this popular craft.
Discover the exciting range of materials that can be used – from fine and rare timbers to acrylics and polymer clays there is something to suit all tastes and the possibilities are endless.

Projects include:
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Acrylic Sierra Pen</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Burl Elm Fountain Pen</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">El Diablo Panache Pen</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Artist’s Sketch Pencil</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Polymer Clay Pen</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Modified Slimline Pen</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Author: Walter Hall</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Paperback: 175 pages</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman Publications (2011)</li>
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Pen and Pencil Projects - Walter Hall

If you have some woodturning experience, you can now create something truly special for your family and friends. These beautiful hand-crafted toys are as enjoyable to make as they are to play with.
From the Back Cover
Learn how to make beautiful hand-crafted toys and games with guidance from woodturning expert Mark Baker. This inspiring book will appeal to woodturners who are looking for projects to develop their skills while creating something special for children to enjoy. The 20 charming projects range in complexity, and include traditional favourites such as a spinning top, tea party items, skittles, stacking blocks, a pull-along train and ring-turned pigs. Each one has clear step-by-step instructions, detailed photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams. The toys are head-wearing and comply with safety standards. 
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<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Traditional favourite wooden toys to make</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Dimensioned drawings throughout</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Practical tips for professional results</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Alternative low-cost solutions to expensive tools and equipment</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Bright, colourful and tactile</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Fun to make and play with</li>
<li style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Durable and safe</li>
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Author: Mark Baker
Paperback: 191 pages
Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsmen Publications Ltd (2016)

Turned Toys - Mark Baker

Embellishing waxes, spirit stains & ebonising lacquer

<h2 style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Rainbow Waxes</h2>This range of water-based decorative waxes from Chestnut Products have a very strong pigment with a metallic shimmer, to add that final finishing touch to your work. Use them to highlight grain or texture, or for a solid colour on the whole item. Can also be thinned with Reducer (or water) to allow them to be applied by brush. A myriad of different application techniques are possible with this product.
 Size: 50g jars

Rainbow Waxes - Chestnut Products

The ideal way to try out&nbsp;Chestnut Products Rainbow Colour Spirit Stains!

The stains are very fade resistant, quick drying and non-grain raising.&nbsp;

Spirit Stain Kit (Rainbow Colours) - Chestnut Products

<h2 style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Rainbow Colours Spirit Wood Stains</h2>
Quick drying, fade resistant range of stains in bright colours.
An exciting and vibrant set of colours for staining wood, Spirit Stains are methanol based to make them quick drying and because of this they also will not raise the grain of the timber they are applied to.
The pigments used to make this stains are of the highest quality and all score the top ratings of 7s and 8s in the Blue Wool Scale, the measuring system used to rate fade resistance. This means you can use them with confidence knowing that the colour you apply will still be the same many years later.
Spirit Stains are fully inter-mixable so you can produce virtually any colour you can think of, giving you full opportunity to be as creative as you wish. The colours will also mix after application so you can blend from one colour to another for fantastic ‘flare’ effects.
Spirit Stain White is designed primarily as a mixer to create pastel shades when mixed with other Spirit Stain colours. It can be used to stain timber but as it is a translucent stain this can have a limited effect depending on the base colour of the timber used.
Should you want a more subtle colour you can dilute the stains with Spirit Thinners for a delicate wash effect.
<h5 style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Method(s) of Application</h5>
Brush, cloth, spray, dipping
<h5 style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Drying Time</h5>
5 minutes
<h5 style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Coverage Rate</h5>
4-8 sq.m. per litre, per coat

Spirit Stain Rainbow Colours - Chestnut Products

Ebonising Lacquer is a tough, hard-wearing water-based lacquer.
It is heavily pigmented so that when it is dry it emulates the classic satin look of ebony.
Usually applied over a sanding sealer (either <a href="/products/cellulose-sanding-sealer-500ml-chestnut-products" style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Cellulose Sanding Sealer</a> or <a href="https://www.greenvill.co.uk/products/acrylic-sanding-sealer-aerosol-chestnut-products" style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Acrylic Sanding Sealer aerosol</a>) it is touch dry in about five minutes and hard dry after twenty minutes.
Although heavily pigmented it is not paint and will still allow the grain of the timber to show through, rather than obliterating it completely. <a href="/products/liming-wax-225ml-chestnut-products" style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Liming Wax</a> and Gilt Cream can be applied over Ebonising Lacquer to give a pleasing, eye-catching yet very simple artistic effect.
If a bright gloss finish is required from Ebonising Lacquer this is best achieved by using <a href="/" style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">Burnishing Cream</a> on the lacquer which will polish it up to a high gloss. Acrylic Gloss Lacquer can also be applied on top of Ebonising Lacquer, as can <a href="/products/wood-wax-22-450ml-chestnut-products" style="text-align: center; color: #000000;">WoodWax 22</a> and Microcrystalline Wax

Ebonising Lacquer Aerosol - Chestnut Products

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