diy woodturning tools

[Philip Davies]

You can make good turning tools from chisels. Many turners make their own tools from files. I have tools for turning made from kitchen knives, a bayonet, a high carbon steel tube, rulers. I have never bought a turning chisel, although I have scrounged a gouge and a skew! They would all be appropriate for a treadle lathe. But if you harness your lathe to a motor, remember that files especially are brittle and can break with catastrophic consequences.