Mike Darlow's Woodturning Series: Useful Woodturning Projects. Mike Darlow

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      ©2021 by Mike Darlow and Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.

      Useful Woodturning Projects is an original work, first published in 2021 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holders.

      Print ISBN 9781497101579

      eISBN 9781607659150

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      CONTENTS

       1 INTRODUCTION

       1.1 The growth in non-useful turning

       1.2 The relative decline in useful turning

       1.3 Conclusion

       1.4 General matters

       1.5 Endnotes

       2 SMALL TOOLS

       2.1 Parting tools

       2.2 Skew chisels

       2.3 Detail gouges

       2.4 Sharpening, handles and callipers

       2.5 Endnotes

       3 A BACKSCRATCHER

       4 MAKING CHESSMEN

       4.1 Chucking workpieces for leaded chessmen

       4.2 Boring the leading hole

       4.3 Chucking chessmen workpieces

       4.4 Polishing

       4.5 Leading

       4.6 Leathering

       5 THREE ANTIQUE CHESS SETS

       5.1 Signatures and symbols

       5.2 The Rowbothum set

       5.3 Matthew Flinders’ set

       5.4 The Windsor design

       5.5 Endnotes

       6 FIVE RECENT CHESS SET DESIGNS

       6.1 Creating new designs

       6.2 The Buenos design

       6.3 The Manny set

       6.4 The Tang design

       6.5 The Lopez design

       6.6 The Stamma design

       6.7 Endnotes

       6.8 Bibliography

       7 FRAMES

       7.1 Hanging, rabbets and sealing

       7.2 A faux bamboo frame

       7.3 A larger bamboo frame

       7.4 Another fully-turned frame

       7.5 Split-spindle frames

       7.6 Quadrant-corner frames

       7.7 Eared frames

       7.8 Diptych frames

       7.9 Frames with Gothic arches