Learning tacit knowledge through Making Woodturning Products
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 is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. In pre-industrial England, these skills were sufficiently difficult to be known as 'the misterie' of the turners guild. The skills to use the tools by hand, without a fixed point of contact with the wood, distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinist's lathe, or metal-working lathe.
Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks, egg cups, knobs, lamps, rolling pins, cylindrical boxes, Christmas ornaments, bodkins, knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture; baseball bats, hollow forms such as woodwind musical instruments, urns, sculptures; bowls, platters, and chair seats. Industrial production has replaced many of these products from the traditional turning shop. However, the wood lathe is still used for decentralized production of limited or custom turnings. A skilled turner can produce a wide variety of objects with five or six simple tools. The tools can be reshaped easily for the task at hand.
In many parts of the world, the lathe has been a portable tool that goes to the source of the wood or adapts to temporary workspaces. 21st-century turners restore furniture, continue folk-art traditions, produce custom architectural work, and create fine crafts for galleries. Woodturning appeals to people who like to work with their hands, find pleasure in problem-solving, or enjoy the tactile and visual qualities of wood.
Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks, egg cups, knobs, lamps, rolling pins, cylindrical boxes, Christmas ornaments, bodkins, knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture; baseball bats, hollow forms such as woodwind musical instruments, urns, sculptures; bowls, platters, and chair seats. Industrial production has replaced many of these products from the traditional turning shop. However, the wood lathe is still used for decentralized production of limited or custom turnings. A skilled turner can produce a wide variety of objects with five or six simple tools. The tools can be reshaped easily for the task at hand.
In many parts of the world, the lathe has been a portable tool that goes to the source of the wood or adapts to temporary workspaces. 21st-century turners restore furniture, continue folk-art traditions, produce custom architectural work, and create fine crafts for galleries. Woodturning appeals to people who like to work with their hands, find pleasure in problem-solving, or enjoy the tactile and visual qualities of wood.
Tacit knowledge in woodturning is more of procedural knowledge and not a factual one. Here it is considered more of a practical intelligence rather than academic. It is action-oriented and relies on own experience as it is easy to gain tacit knowledge over the years. The advantage of tacit knowledge is inexpensive because the bearer of the knowledge has not made any conscious effort for its gain by paying for it. Security proof! Since it has no chance of leaking as it is internalized deep in the mind. |
Making of Woodturning Products
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Sarena Bhargava
The best woods for turning on a lathe are straight-grained free of knots, and easy to work. You also want properly dried wood, so it won’t crack, split or warp. Many hardwood suppliers offer material already cut into pieces suitable for turning to save time. Below is a list of woodturning products available on the market.
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In recent years, woodturning has become my craving for creative artistic expression, allowing me to explore organic splendor and the diverse energy of wood. Each piece of wood has a story to share, transformed into a distinctively inspired expression of the beauty and function of nature. That is shown below in my collections of woodturning products in this section and by the others.
The artistry of Sarena Bhargava may be found among varied means from curated fine collections to galleries to industrial artwork and the movie screen. First generation American-Indian, Sarena is a master of sculpture, welding, painting and woodwork, holding a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Arts.
Sarena has commissioned sculpture work housed within the permanent collection of Cal State Fullerton (her baccalaureate alma mater). Sarena has also collaborated with Disneyland Tokyo, Disneyland (Anaheim, CA, USA) and Universal Studios Hollywood on industrial artwork.
Sarena’s sculpture work and artistic credits within the movie industry span two decades. You may learn more about Sarena’s filmography at the International Movie Database (IMBd) by clicking here. MORE INFORMATION ON HER ART WORK . . . .
Sarena has commissioned sculpture work housed within the permanent collection of Cal State Fullerton (her baccalaureate alma mater). Sarena has also collaborated with Disneyland Tokyo, Disneyland (Anaheim, CA, USA) and Universal Studios Hollywood on industrial artwork.
Sarena’s sculpture work and artistic credits within the movie industry span two decades. You may learn more about Sarena’s filmography at the International Movie Database (IMBd) by clicking here. MORE INFORMATION ON HER ART WORK . . . .
Woodturning Products by Others
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Enjoy the colors and glazes on 3D ceramic pottery products produced by the potter's wheel with a finger-swipe contrast to woodturning products! A potter's wheel has been referred sometimes to as a "potter's lathe", the term is used for another kind of lathe for a different shaping process, turning, similar to that used for the shaping of metal and wooden articles. |
