Turning Miniatures Tutorials
( There's about an hour of videos and five Step By Step HOW TO illlustrations in this tutorial. You might want to bookmark this page and come back to it.)
I've put together a set of tutorials on how to turn miniatures. Each of the following tutorials has an Illustrated Step by Step HOW TO you can download, print and add your own notes to, while watching the accompanying YouTube video. When watching the YouTube videos, view them at Full Screen size because things are pretty small when doing miniatures and being able to see details of things is kind of important. If you have any questions, suggestions for improving this stuff, or just a comment click here to e-mail them to me. (put "MINIATURES" for the message's subject so I can spot it amongst the 200+ SPAM messages I get a day)
Minis 1 - Basic Cuts you should know how to turn (part 1 of 2)
Peel Cut
Undercut Cut
V Cut
Vertical Cut
Cove Cut
Ogee Cut
Right Rolling Cut
Left Rolling Cut
Beads Cut
Minis 2 -Basic Cuts you should know how to turn (part 2 of 2)
Two Blended Long Radii Curves Cuts (think of the neck of a wine goblet or "onion" finial)
Minis 3 - Turning a Miniature Plate
Minis 4 - Turning a Miniature Bowl
Minis 5 - Turning a Miniature Hollow Form
Minis 6 - Turning a Miniature "Onion Finial" (part 1 of 2)
Minis 7 - Turning a Miniature "Onion Finial" (part 2 of 2)
Minis 8 - "Blending" a finial or lid to a hollow form