A lathe is a tool which allows you to turn wood into things like bowls, bedposts, spindles, candlesticks, etc.
This picture shows a piece of wood fastened to the lathe,
with some of the outside and inside of the bowl already turned.
This bowl is made up of multiple layers of smaller pieces of wood that have
been glued together to create a larger piece.
Woodturning can be done for useful as well as decorative work.
This is the bowl with top and bottom still attached, as it came off of the lathe.
This shows the inside of a lid to a bowl after it has been turned, but before any finish work has been done.
Here are some examples of bowls with and without lids, which have been sanded and finished.
The pens in the foreground have also been turned on the lathe.
These bowls are turned with the long grain of the wood perpendicular to the shaft of the lathe, instead of parallel as most of the bowls have been turned.
These are fun paperweights, which have burls inside resin, and are then turned on the lathe. We call them dragon’s eggs. The one with the cedar sticks inside, is shaped like a mushroom.
As you can see, wood is not the only thing you can turn on a lathe. Resin works too, but is very messy.
This is one of 4 matching posts for a bed that have been turned on the lathe. 
This cottage spinning wheel shows multiple spindles that were individually turned, then assembled to make the finished product.
Items pictured in this blog were created by Dennis Krumlinde.
