Featuring clear language & appealing full-colour illustrations, this intermediate-level manual shifts the focus to a survey of interesting special techniques that are seldom seen together in one volume-including chucking, turning spindles, drilling, forming round objects & multi-axis turning. Projects in this guidebook include chucking a spoon, creating a ring & turning a sculpture of a tree from a block of wood. Many of these tricks are shown to come from the long history of woodturning & a number of old engravings & other materials are presented to give historical depth to the discussion.