I was curious where many of you turners fell on the spectrum of being completely self taught to being closely instructed or taking multiple classes. How much did your prior wood working experience ease the transition to the lathe? What methods did you find were useful or unnecessary when starting out? Any nostalgia on that first project?
Of course everyone has their own method of learning, which works best for them. And I'm sure most of us are in a perpetual state of learning / acquiring new techniques as well. Did you find any wood turning nuances or tricks of the trade that you couldn't get from a book / net or experimenting yourself?
Of course everyone has their own method of learning, which works best for them. And I'm sure most of us are in a perpetual state of learning / acquiring new techniques as well. Did you find any wood turning nuances or tricks of the trade that you couldn't get from a book / net or experimenting yourself?