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Introduction to Spindle Turning! at Philadelphia Woodworks is an immersive, hands-on, full-day beginner woodworking course taught by award-winning master turner Eli Polite in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed for novices and those building confidence on the lathe, the class covers woodturning fundamentals including tool selection, sharpening, body positioning, and cutting techniques to safely shape wood into turned spindles. Students create and take home a series of finished spindle projects, with no membership or safety certification required to enroll.

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Beginner woodworkers, Hobbyists interested in woodturning, Learning lathe spindle turning fundamentals and Creating handcrafted woodturning projects

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The 4-Station 3-Spindle Honing Machine by Chin Minn Industries Co., Ltd. is a rotary type special-purpose machine designed for multi-step cylinder bore honing of automotive parts, including master cylinders, wheel cylinders, and clutch cylinders. Equipped with an index table, it divides machining into rough, medium, and finish honing stages with a 30-second cycle time per piece, 380mm stroke, and PLC control system for cast iron and aluminum alloy workpieces.

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Automotive parts manufacturers, Precision machining workshops, Cylinder bore honing and Automotive cylinder machining

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Basic Bowl Turning is an in-person, all-day woodturning workshop taught by Mark Supik at Mark Supik & Co. in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed for hobbyists, artists, and woodworkers, students learn bowl turning fundamentals using green and dried wood from local trees to turn a log into a finished bowl in one day. The course covers proper use and sharpening of the bowl gouge. Tuition is $200, which includes safety gear, an individual lathe, tools, materials, lunch, and snacks.

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woodturners, hobbyists, learning bowl turning fundamentals and making a wooden bowl from local timber