Within minutes of the famous Las Vegas Strip and Historic Fremont Street, I am now offering 3 day courses in my fully-equipped workshop.

With a maximum of five students per course, each student will receive the utmost in personal attention and each course will be tailored to the requirements of the participant, whether just beginning woodturning or advancing skills. Each course will emphasize tool technique and use.

The class will provide you with the skills to sharpen your tools. You can’t cut wood efficiently with blunt tools. We will discuss the different tool profiles and sharpening systems — pros and cons. We will do some simple spindle work and learn the basic cuts in spindle turning. Then onto the use of the skew, roughing out gouge, spindle gouge and parting tool. A spindle turner can easily switch to turning bowls, but a bowl turner will find it more difficult to learn spindles! We will then move onto turning a bowl and you will learn tool technique, bevel angles and how to easily obtain a pleasing curve which then can be refined to the finished curve. Other projects will include how to turn a box with a fitted lid so precise that you will not be able to get a razor blade in the joint! Another creative portion of the class will be to learn how to color a project which will emphasize the grain or figure. This will be combined with the platter turning that entails how to achieve an aesthetically pleasing ogee. When completed, you will have some really nice finished pieces and a huge boost your confidence! I will also explain why turning at slightly higher speed is safer than at a lower speed.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as an intermediate or advanced woodturning class! After all, if you break it all down you are just learning certain cuts with certain tools. My classes are designed for all abilities and the projects will change based on level of ability and requirements of the students. I will cover everything you will need to increase your ability, from a sharpening, tooling, aesthetics and embellishment point of view. If you have a particular project in mind , just let me know and we will have a go at it !! Not only that, but I am sure that your confidence level will rise immensely all while having a great time in a great workshop in a great location.