How-To
Turning Beads and Coves
Mastering these two shapes will allow you to turn virtually any furniture spindle
Oct 25, 2005
All spindle-turning shapes encompass the turning of either a cove or a bead. You can never practice making them enough, and the best tool for it, according to woodworking teacher and author Ernie Conover, is a spindle gouge. Watch as he demonstrates the techniques he’s perfected at his school in Parkman, Ohio.
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Awesome Ernie, you make it look so easy.
Do you ever cut the beads with a skew chisel?
thanks again
'mark
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