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Spindle turning, or turning between centers, is a
Spindle turning, or turning between centers, is a woodturning
Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a simple mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator ...
method referring to a piece of wood on a wood lathe that is being turned on its center axis.
Method
For spindle turning, the wood is held on the lathe either by both ends (between the headstock and tailstock) or by one end only using a lathe chuck Wood is generally removed by running a turning tool down the slope of the wood from a larger diameter in the wood to a smaller diameter.Examples
Spindle turning is the method used for items such as chair and table legs, lamps, cues, bats, pens, candlesticks etc. i.e. long and thin objects.See also
*Turned chair
Turned chairs — sometimes called thrown chairs or spindle chairs — represent a style of Elizabethan or Jacobean turned furniture that were in vogue in the late 16th and early 17th century England, New England and Holland. In turned furniture ...
s, chairs made with their frame components turned into bobbins
References
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