George Hatfield resides in Sydney, Australia. He began woodturning at the age of 16 in a furniture factory, manufacturing reproduction period furniture. He spent 11 years doing this, and 37 years teaching wood-machining and woodturning apprentices at a technical college. He has demonstrated in Australia, New Zealand, England, and the U.S. George has been an associate editor for Australian Woodworker magazine for about 15 years. Over the last 20 years or so he has had over 100 articles published by various sources, including AAW Journal.

Tool Design and Sharpening

This demonstration will cover tool design for detail turning with an explanation of how and why they work.  Tool sharpening will also be discussed.

Designing Between Center Work

Discussion of designing between center work (spindle turning) with illustration of examples.  Explanation of these examples and how they apply to the hat stand (already designed).  Drawings will be made of the hat stand to make pencil gouges to reproduce turnings.

Hat Stand

Demonstration will include reverse end boring of sections of the center post.  Then lathe turning of the seven components of the center post off the bored holes.  Continuation of the hat stand, using previously made pencil gouges to turn (duplicate) the legs and pegs.

Cabriole Leg

Demonstration of how to design cabriole legs, find the off-center center for a face and corner leg and then turn several legs.  Demonstration will also include how the foot can be easily modified to a different design.

Hands-On

This demonstration will invite attendees the opportunity to use my tools on detail spindle and faceplate work under my supervision.