Woodturner's Guild of Ontario

for the advancement and promotion of the craft of woodturning

Mark's Amazing Finds

LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests)
LIST OF WOODS, Wikipedia (A great site with good descriptions of most species)
Archive of Brian Clifford's site (many good learning and project articles)
Around The Woods
Common Pests of Ontario Trees
A Landowners Resource Guide to Butternut
Wood decay in living and dead trees: A pictorial overview - Northern Research Station
Compartmentalization of decay in trees - Northern Research Station - Forest Service
Tree Wounds— Invitations to Wood Decay Fungi - Plant Pathology - University of Kentucky
origins of decay in living deciduous trees - Historic Tree Care
Indicators of Decay in Trees
Mechanisms of Compartmentalization of Decay in Living Trees - American Phytopathological Society
Wood Decaying Fungi
Producing Spalted Wood - Forest Products Laboratory - Forest Service
Wood Decay, Degradation & Stain - LSU AgCenter
Drying HardWood
Solar kiln for wood
Wood drying
more Wood drying
Raffan on Scoops
Turned and Carved Sehll Box
Raffan Boxes
Raffan on Safety
Raffan on Returning a Bowl
Raffan on Live-edge Bowls
Bowl Gouge Grinds
Article on a Treadle Lathe
Spring Pole Lathe
Bowls within Trees
Bowls within Logs
Spring Pole Lathe
eBook on Identifying Wood
How to Turn a Rough Turned Bowl After Drying
Turning a big bowl by Lissi Øland on YouTube
Unconventional turning tools
eBook on .The Art of Segmented Wood Turning
PEG and drying & stabilising wood
Book - "Lathe Work" by Paul Nooncree Hasluck; 1883
Book - "Wood Turner's Handybook: A Practical Manual for Workers at the Lathe" - 1901 - by Paul Nooncree Hasluck
Safety and Wood dust
Canadian Forest Service Publications | Natural Resources Canada
The Art Of Woodworking Wood Turning - 1994
Free book ..... 'Wood Turning' - 1921
Free book - The Lathe Book: A Complete Guide to the Machine and Its Accessories - 2001
Alternative Carrier Solvents for Pigments Extracted from Spalting Fungi
Utilizing Extracted Fungal Pigments for Wood Spalting: A Comparison of Induced Fungal Pigmentation to Fungal Dyeing
The influence of moisture content variation on fungal pigment formation in spalted wood
Anyone with a firewood pile should be familiar with spalted wood - AAW
The influence of moisture content variation on fungal pigment formation in spalted wood
Utilizing Extracted Fungal Pigments for Wood Spalting: A Comparison of Induced Fungal Pigmentation to Fungal Dyeing
A series of free videos......Documentary on Spalted Wood - Northern Spalting
a book.....Spalted Wood: The History, Science, and Art of a Unique Material - $60.00 : Schiffer Publishing
USDA Forest Service BOOK - "Wood Handbook, Wood as an Engineering Material"
Did they [ancient Egyptians] really have the lathe?
Equilibrium moisture content of wood in outdoor locations in the United States and worldwid
Drying and control of moisture content and dimensional changes
Investigation of Historic Equilibrium Moisture Content Data from the Forest Products Laboratory
Wood turning lathes: Safe working practices WIS28 - HSE
Nasal carcinoma and occupational exposure to wood dust
Workplace exposure to wood dust and the prevalence of wood-specific sensitization
What’s the tick situation in the Rouge? - Rouge National Urban Park
How to improve dust control at circular saw benches
Wood Dust - Health Effects : OSH Answers
World Health Organization (WHO) IARC 2018 Monograph on health effects of wood dust
Possible Solutions to dust... UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

More Great Resources

Differences in Gouge Measurement courtesy of Mark

The folks at Oneway explain that British and North American manufacturers measure gouges differently, which has proven effective for sowing massive confusion here in the colonies. While American & Canadian makers measure the diameter of the tool the Brits measure the distance across the inside of the flute. Thus what we might measure as a 3/4" gouge could be described by its Sheffield maker as a 1/2" gouge. And we'd both be right, even if neither of us knew what the other was talking about