2011 Competition January project ( Pictures)

[Blister]

Hi entrants,

The January Challenge is for a standard bowl

One item per entrant

Standard bowl. No texturing / piercing / coloring / carving / burning

Any wood type, any size

Emphasis on design, tool control and finish.

Completed entry's to be uploaded the last week of January 25th - 31st

NO Critique on any work until February Please, After the Judging and results.

Please state item size, width and height and wood type if known and a little about how you made it and what finish you used

Please post 3 images of your work

1 from above
1 side profile
1 of the bottom / underneath

Image size, most digital cameras have a menu / image quality setting, please use image size 640 x 480 0.3 mp

Regarding posting images, if you have a problem please ask for assistance.

Any questions please ask

The Judge for January will be Barry (cookie777 )

The Judges decision is final


So let the fun begin

And keep safe, eye protection and a dust mask

PS

Can you PM me when you have your project ready so I can mark you off the list below :mrgreen:

 

[Blister]

Entrants list for January 2011

babylon355 ( Ready )
Blister (Ready )
Bodrighy ( Ready )
chill ( Ready )
Chrisp ( Ready )
clk230 ( Ready )
Daven (Ready )
DougieH ( Ready )
Elaine ( Ready )
gus3049 ( Ready )
Haldane ( Ready )
Hudson Carpentry ( Ready )
johnny.t. ( Ready )
loz ( Ready )
Melinda_dd ( Ready )
myturn ( Ready )
Oakbear ( Ready )
OldWood (Ready )
Paul.J ( Ready )
RATWOOD ( Ready )
Silverbirch ( Ready )
skeetoids ( Ready )
The Shark ( Ready )
TheTiddles ( Ready )
whacky ( Ready )
Wood spoiler ( Ready )
como ( Ready )
callumlovatt ( Ready )
liamscanlan ( Ready )
duncanh ( Ready )
cambournepete ( Ready )
miles_hot ( Ready )
dennisk ( Ready )
not_simple_si ( Ready )
RO ( Ready )
monkeybiter (Ready )
steve66 ( Ready )
Jonzjob ( Ready )
Pvt_Ryan ( Ready )
SVB ( Ready )
Dust Busker ( Ready )





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matmac
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[CHJ]

NO DISCUSSION ABOUT POSTING ERRORS OR TIMING IN THIS THREAD PLEASE.


Keep Comments down to Requirements Required for Judging Purposes, any other comments are likely to get deleted and none image postings definitely will be.

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[whacky]

Ok here goes

First bowl ever finished and it's the third I have ever attempted - I purchased a bowl gouge specially!

Wood was rescused from my parents wood pile and I have no idea what wood it is. It is:

5 1/2cm tall
9cm across

I wanted it to show the contrast of it being chunky looking but being really tiny, kept with the rustic chunky look with the finish and just used Danish Oil to bring out the natural detail without the shine.

Thanks for looking

 

[miles_hot]

Many moons ago a nice chap on here (Alex S) gave me some mystery wood. It was thought to be Tulip or Olive wood however Moose thought this might be wrong - the whole plank had a strong stripping across it - if any one has any ideas what it is Alex and I would be most interested in your thoughts (on a separate thread which I will be posting soon with the other 2 bowls which are also from mystery woods!)

I apologise for the quality of the pics - I took them just before I parcelled the bowls up and sent them off to Alex and I was convinced I would be entering a Natural Edge bowl and so took them just in case I ran out of time to do the Comp.

The bowl is around 9-10" in diameter and I decided to turn a wide rim to show off the stripping, there is a little bead to delineate the bowl from the rim. The wood is quite heavy so it has a nice heft in the hand. The finish is buffing followed by carnuba wax (Buffed).

Thanks Blister for organising this!





Miles

 

[liamscanlan]

Here's mine...

Cedar of Lebanon
180mm diameter
35mm tall
Finish: tiny bit of sanding sealer outside -
straight off the tools (i.e. none) inside (don't want to mask the smell for now!)

Edit: I did sand to finish - I'm not that good! (Sorry for any confusion caused!)


IMG_1757 by liam_iam, on Flickr


IMG_1759 by liam_iam, on Flickr


IMG_1755 by liam_iam, on Flickr

 

[gus3049]

This little bowl is oak of course. Rescued, as usual, from the woodpile.

Its 122mm in diameter and 50mm high.

There is no finish on the wood, its just polished with its own shavings.

I wanted it to be a simple as possible (to obey all the rules) and just concentrate on the shape and finish.

I particularly like really chunky bowls but this is a compromise between the thick walled ones and the thin walled ones I also quite like because of the challenge they represent.

I've sort of come down to two favourite tools for doing almost everything! I have a half inch chisel ground to a metal cutting profile and a Hunter hollowing tool which is brilliant - across the grain seems to make no difference at all, even in rock hard oak. Apart from the roughing gouge and a scraper for finishing off, I seldom use anything else now for bowls. I still haven't really got to grips with the bowl gouge.

I suspect some of the future projects will demand I try a few others though.

 

[callumlovatt]

This is my entry for january,
it measures about 10.5 cm in diameter and about 6.5 cm tall, not sure what the wood is though.
It has been finished in cellulose sanding sealer and then sprayed with acrylic gloss lacer.

Mod Edit: Links corrected.

 

[Haldane]

Hi

Bowl made from Sycamore
Approx 23cm (9") Dia, 7.5cm (3") tall, wall thickness 3mm (1/8")
Finished with sanding sealer and woodwax

Dave

 

[TheTiddles]

Here's mine,

Made from a piece of Paul M's spalted beech finished with beeswax over shellac sanding sealer.

It's 5.5" in diameter and 32 tall.

Aidan

 

[skeetoids]

Hi,

Here is my January entry:

Elm Double Rimmed Bowl, 60mmx150mm, emphasis is on design, sanding sealer applied then Chestnut Woodwax 22.

Top view:

Side view:

Bottom view:

Cheers,

Lee.

 

[SVB]

Provided I can un-withdraw, here is my bowl.

It is turnded in Burbinga and is a cute 5" dia x 2.5" tall.

Sanded to 1200 grit and finished with MC Wax.

 

[Chrisp]

Hi Guys, My bowl for January, again rescued from a wood burning pile, at first I thought it was Laburnum from the end of the log untill I started to cut it to size and now belive it to be Mulberry, 8.5cms H x 15.5 cms W, finished with sanding sealer cut back woth 400 grit paper and a wax finish on top.

 

[Pvt_Ryan]

Sorry for mucking you about Blister, but a few people have said I should stick it in anyway so here it is:

Wood: Iroko (to the best of my knowledge)
Finish: Wax
No shot of the base as I didn't take one before I ruined it and wasn't going to enter.

 

[not_simple_si]

Hi,

Here's my bowl. It's made from Yew and was turned when it was still a little on the green side. It was a lot of fun to turn as there were some cracks in the wood, but as I was turning a few more appeared... it's amazing what a little super glue can do to help save the situation.

The bowl was treated initially with sanding sealer, then 5 coats of Danish Oil and a final finish of wax (applied with wire wool and then buffed). It measures 185mm in diameter, and 100mm in height.

It was a lot of fun, being one of my first successful bowls.

Must say a big thanks to John, who gave me a lot of advice on this.

T

 

[monkeybiter]

Done. Embarassed but done.

Eucalyptus, 130mm wide, 75mm tall.

Finished with sanding sealer on the outside then friction polish all over.

Rushed due to my own late entry but highly satisfying and great fun.

Thanks Blister.

 

[Wood spoiler]

My bowl is spalted beech. Not overly spalted so remained firm throughout.

One split to overcome which was fed thin CA to stabilise

Dimensions: width 260, height 80 thickness 3

Turned on a spigot with foot turned whilst doing outside shape. reverse chucked to remove spigot.

Finishing oil then buffed and finished with Carnuba wax

Profile

Top

Bottom

 

[RATWOOD]

My bowl is my oak it is 55mm X 35 thickness about 1mm
sanding sealer and wax

 

[Hudson Carpentry]

Made out of 2 pieces of American White Oak. Laminated the two pieces to get the height and crossed the grain as i thought it might make a nice contrast inside the bowl.

It measures 143mm wide by 76mm in height. Wall thickness is 13mm.

Turned between centres.

My first ever bowl, something I wanted to do for a while so thank you for this competition.

As my first bowl I wanted it to look its best, i believed that would be with a coloured bead so I left this piece unfinished for this competition. Very glad I coloured the bead.

 

[DougieH]

Apologies for my entry. But its my first time using oak and my biggest bowl up to now.

As said wood is oak, made with a skew chisel and a shallow fluted gouge (all I had at the time). Approx 6.5in diameter by 2in high, rim thickness about 1/4in. Finished with 2 coats of Rustin Button Polish to seal the wood, then polished with 2 coats of Wood Silk wax polish.