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Spheres within spheres, stars within cubes, delicate lattices with no apparent means of support - wood turners over the centuries have developed a whole range of extraordinary structures which seem at first sight to be quite impossible. In fact, all of these items can be made by anyone with basic wood turning skills, an ordinary lathe and simple hand tools - and this book shows you how. Topics included are: arrow through a bottle, lattice-lidded boxes, lattice pomander, Singapore ball, spiked star in sphere or cube, captive cube in sphere, pierced sphere, lidded box in sphere, Chinese balls and rings, and interlocking spheres. A best-seller when first published in 1993, the book has been thoroughly revised for this new edition, with colour photography throughout. It features stunning new 3-D illustrations showing cutaway views of the work in progress, making the instructions even easier to follow than before. The introductory chapters describe the equipment required - much of which you can make yourself - and give advice on wood selection, setting out the work, and workshop health and safety.

A former woodwork teacher, David Springett has been a professional woodturner for over 30 years. Specialising at first in lace bobbins, he has became increasingly interested in more experimental work, such as the seemingly impossible pieces described in this book. David has demonstrated his woodturning techniques throughout the UK and USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Ireland. He is on the Register of Professional Turners (RPT) and is a member of the SOT, AWGB and AAW. David is the author of Adventures in Woodturning, Woodturning Wizardry, Woodturning Trickery, and Woodturning Full Circle, published by GMC Publications.