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Woodturning Design: Turning Inspiration Into Form
This title uses instructive diagrams and photographs to instill confidence in critiquing sources of inspiration. In this inspiring book, Derek Hayes investigates the process and practice of design in woodturning. While aiming to instill confidence in appreciating, criticising and selecting sources of inspiration, Derek questions why we may find one turning attractive and another ugly. He looks closely at design elements, sketching, proportion, pattern, decoration and colour; with instructive diagrams and photographs that will guide the reader to a better understanding of design. Readers are encouraged to question and fine-tune this understanding and experiment with ways of applying the approaches of other designers to their own work. Each chapter starts with a photographic example of what Derek sees as good design in a medium other than woodturning.
176 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2011
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January 21, 2023
The book is very disappointing.
Like many books by GMC it suffers from inadequate editing and has many typographical errors, but this book is worse than most. Here are just a few blunders:
- Incorrect value of the golden ratio p40, and in the figures p41, p43. In addition, the mathematical geometric descriptions are mostly incorrect.
- The author has no idea what a catenary is: it is confused with an ellipse on more than one occasion, and the diagrams (e.g. p64) do not depict true catenaries. Further, you do not get catenaries, ellipses, hyperbolas or parabolas from each other by changing an aspect angle as implied on p64-65; it is utter gobbledygook.
- The mathematical ratio of the foot on p87 is also rubbish: a reader with a "mathematical bent" won't find trigonometry helpful as the author suggests because it is wrong. In any case, the chapter on the Foot didn't lead anywhere useful.
- The chapter on Pattern doesn't add up to anything either.
Most readers would be hoping to find something that they could apply to their turning: they will be disappointed.
I cannot recommend this book.
Like many books by GMC it suffers from inadequate editing and has many typographical errors, but this book is worse than most. Here are just a few blunders:
- Incorrect value of the golden ratio p40, and in the figures p41, p43. In addition, the mathematical geometric descriptions are mostly incorrect.
- The author has no idea what a catenary is: it is confused with an ellipse on more than one occasion, and the diagrams (e.g. p64) do not depict true catenaries. Further, you do not get catenaries, ellipses, hyperbolas or parabolas from each other by changing an aspect angle as implied on p64-65; it is utter gobbledygook.
- The mathematical ratio of the foot on p87 is also rubbish: a reader with a "mathematical bent" won't find trigonometry helpful as the author suggests because it is wrong. In any case, the chapter on the Foot didn't lead anywhere useful.
- The chapter on Pattern doesn't add up to anything either.
Most readers would be hoping to find something that they could apply to their turning: they will be disappointed.
I cannot recommend this book.
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