Woodturning Wizardry is a book to blow your mind and stretch your imagination.  David Springett is the master of mind bending sculptural pieces, with spheres within spheres, impossible multifaceted spiky stars within square turnings atop beautiful thin stemmed goblets, fabulous lattice work and an incredible turned arrow passing through a glass bottle!

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Many of the pieces in this book require a variety of special jigs and tools, but the creation of all these are covered in the book.  Fantastically detailed plans, descriptions and photographs accompany all the projects and pieces.

I have made a couple of jigs and tools but have yet to complete a piece that I would consider a keeper.  However I keep picking up this book time after time for inspiration and wouldn’t want to be without it.  One day I’ll get there!

The book is split into three parts and 19 chapters:

Part One Preparation

1. Wood
2. Making jigs and chucks
3. Toolmaking
4. Turning spheres
5. Setting out the surface of a sphere

Part Two Projects

6. Arrow through bottle
7. Lattice circles
8. Offset lattice lid
9. Box with domed lattice lid
10. Lattice Pomander
11. Singapore Ball
12. Spiked star in cube
13. Spiked star in sphere
14. Captive cube in sphere
15. Lidded box in sphere
16. Chinese balls
17. Chinese rings
18. Pierced sphere
19. Interlocking spheres

Part Three Gallery