Wood Turners Glossary
Cyanoacrylate adhesive glue. This glue is noted for it's quick drying behavior. Frequently referenced as crazy glue, instant glue, or other phrases. This glue has a wide range of uses, including as a finishing coat on wood working projects and quick wood glue-ups.
Blades used in conjunction with carbide turning tools. The carbide cutter heads are sharp right out of the box, and when one dulls, simply rotate it to expose a new, sharp edge. When all edges are dull, just replace the cutter head.
Carbide Turning Tools are an alternate to traditional turning tool. These tools have carbide cutter heads that are replaced when dull, rather than re-sharpened. As the tool dulls, the head is rotated to a fresh section of sharp blade. When all edges are dull, just replace the cutter head.
The process of making a resin blank in a mold of silicon or other material. Casting typically requires resin, dyes or pigments, molds, vacuum chamber or pressure pot.
A CBN wheel is made from cubic boron nitride. This material is one of the hardest materials available, second only to diamonds. The main feature of the material is that it features a high abrasion resistance and thermal conductivity that maintains its sharp cutting edges on a turning tool.
Coring systems are jigs designed to optimize the cutting of bowls out of wood. Coring systems saves the inside of the bowl that would normally be turned to shavings. As a result, multiple bowls may be turned from one blank of wood that might normally result in only one bowl.