When I look back at video clips from nearly a year ago, I'm pleasantly surprised at how far I've come in skill, knowledge, and confidence in so short a time. Learning is open ended, and I have a long way to go. But that's what keeps it interesting. I learn something new every time I turn on my lathe.
I'm getting ready to turn eight plates or platters from coastal redwood slabs I milled more than two years ago, so I thought it would be interesting to show the two from ten months ago and contrast those turnings with the ones I'll do next week.
I'd planned to do both in this video, but I'd forgotten how slow I was then. There is only time for one plate in this one.

If you have come over here from Oregon Old Timer
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you probably know the story. I made a couple of projects on a wood lathe in junior high school wood shop in the 1950s. I didn't touch a lathe again until July last year. I'd watched a few woodturning videos and got the bug. The prices of new lathes stopped me, but I found a lathe like the one I'd used in junior high at a sale and bought it for $200. That, and a few tools, got me started.
After I had enough experience to have a good idea of what I wanted to turn and what equipment I'd need to do that, I bought a Laguna Revo 12/16 with the bed extension that can also mount low on the left side to allow turning larger bowls. I expect this lathe to serve for the rest of my turning life.

Woodturning is an adventure in learning and creating. It's great fun, even for a beginner.

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