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For small boxes the best way to hollow them out is with a forstner type drill bit mounted in the tail stock, this will give a rapid removal of material and allow for an easy clean up afterwards, and in the case of "square" boxes like yours, it leaves a nice square interior, I use a square...

Lovely piece!

Carbon Steel and High speed steel are not the same thing, High speed steel does have a high carbon content very like Carbon (or tool steel) but it also has additional alloying metals that give it a very special property, it's ability to get very hot without losing it's hardness. Primarily...

Having posted all that I see you are doing it black (I should have read it more carefully! :) ) instead of staining (which I did recently with a little Oak pot) you could try using the Oak's natural tannin to colour it, although I am not certain of how best to approach that, it could look a bit...

With spirit stains it would depend on what you wanted the end result to be as regards thinning, I have used them thinned several times to get a pale version of a colour. Also you get more interesting results by mixing the colours, either in a pot or on the piece itself, you can of course also...

Good stuff, well done Steve! I made one but it blew up part way through and I ran out of time :) Nice to see so many having a go.

Very interesting, thanks for posting. :)

Doesn't it depend on whether they are bowl gouges or spindle gouges? (Sorry if this has been covered, I didn't spot it!) Bowl gouges are measured across the flute, so a half inch bowl gouge will be half an inch across the flute but made from 5/8ths stock Whereas spindle gouges are measured...

You don't have to wait years, you can rough turn wood green and let it dry in an attic for a couple of months, (depending on the wood, Ash and Sycamore respond well to this) Rough turning a bowl would mean making the thing bowl shaped but about an inch to an inch and a quarter thick, keep away...

I have refrained from commenting till I saw all options, I did consider doing the task, but like Dennis, I doubt I would be organized enough to keep it up, that wouldn't be fair to others then. Graham I think it's great you have offered to have a go at it, and I like your idea too. It is nice...

Yes you can start it yourself.

Thanks Steve, adding the colour to shellac wouldn't be practical, it might work for single colours, but mixing and blending take place on the workpiece and the rapid drying of the shellac would prohibit that and also cause issues with build up, runs and tears etc, it would be a bit of a...

Thanks peeps! The technique. It really is a "so far" exercise right now, and no doubt I will find different methods and better ways, but this one was done like this: A couple of things to bear in mind, using a single colour or even two or three colours but as single coats will be relatively...

Pressing on with the goal of getting a shellac finish onto coloured pieces this is stage two, multi coloured, the main difficulty with this is that the shellac is a solvent (well the meths the shellac is in is a solvent!) to the colour, so applying the shellac with a rubber as per french...

I've not used Danish Oil Derek, but finishing oil needs a good 24 hours to cure, I generally leave it a few days though just to make sure it has formed a good tough skin. As Danish oil is a satin rather than a gloss finish, perhaps finishing oil might be more suitable, at least as the final...

I use an 8" record power with the white wheel, it does the job just fine, I also use the sorby jig system with it as I enjoy the single pass precise sharpening that gives me. The advantage of an 8" over a 6" is the larger diameter gives a shallower bevel (hollow ground) plus the wheels will by...

I would pop for Sycamore from that pic too, the bark at least looks the part.

The bowls I have cut up have been nothing but solid wood, no insert or anything, I think any bias must come from the shape but I am not certain about that.

No probs. Patriot has a small advantage in that you can use the jaws in any order, Nova Jaws are numbered. They are both interchangeable too, I have the Patriot chuck, but also a set of nova Jaws that fit just fine. (The long nosed Patriot Jaws are in fact numbered, but this is so that they...

I don't have either of the bits you are looking for Robert, I have the small 3 way split ring and the 1 3/4" but no filler plate or 1 1/2" SR.