Location: Wood Lathe Area | 1330 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089

Description:

Take your lathe skills to the next level - learn to make bowls, cups, boxes, and more while keeping your tools sharp! 
In this hands-on advanced workshop, you'll learn to cut away the inside of a wood blank to create convex shapes, and make a wooden bowl of your own to take home.  You'll learn:

• Basic safety and best practices for working with large wood blanks on the lathe
• How to shape your bowl and prepare it for lathe work on both ends of your piece
• How to use a bowl gouge to hollow out your piece

Keep your lathe tools sharp and your cuts clean. If you do a lot of work on our lathes, you know that cutting with a dull tool can be not only frustrating, but potentially dangerous. 

In this hands-on tool training class, you'll learn how to use our Wolverine tool grinding jig to sharpen lathe tools that have a u-shaped cutting edge, like gouges.  We'll also show you how to sharpen scrapers.

We'll cover:

• How to set up our Wolverine grinding jig
• How to sharpen scrapers using an angled grinding platform
• How to sharpen roughing gouges, bowl gouges, and spindle gouges using the Wolverine Jig's vee arm.
• Safety measures, tips and tricks for getting a sharp edge.

To learn about sharpening skews and hand tools (plane blades, chisels, etc.) sign up for the next levels, Tool Sharpening II: Lathe Skews and Tool Sharpening III: Chisels & Plane Blades.

Materials Fee
This class has a $10 Materials Fee, which will be added to your cart at checkout.

What to Bring

• Full length pants and closed-toed shoes
• Hair ties for longer hair
• We recommend you bring your own safety glasses and hearing protection if possible.  Maker Nexus will supply them for students who do not have their own.
• No dangling jewelry or loose clothing

Equipment Certifications
After passing this class, attendees who are Maker Nexus Hobbyist, Student, or Family Add-On members will be certified to independently use the following tools in our makerspace:

• Wolverine Tool Grinding Jig

Members over the age of 16 will be cleared to use these tools independently. Members younger than 16 may only operate this equipment under the active supervision of a parent or guardian with an active membership who is also certified to use the same tools.

Cancellation Policy
Should you need to cancel your reservation or transfer your registration to another date, we’re happy to help!  Please see our Cancellation Policy for information and cancellation instructions.

Available: 2/4

Price: $145.00 Taxes waived

Required age: Over 16 years old on the day of the activity

Prerequisites: Introduction to Lathe or prior experience spindle turning on a wood lathe

Tags: Make & Take Prerequisite Required Intermediate Advanced

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