advise - Eucalyptus bur

[miles_hot]

For saying what a awkward wood it is to turn-and teh problems you've had- i think you've done a great job Miles

yep - i'd second that , by the sound of it you did well to produce any kind of bowl from that blank.

btw on the subject of the ring centre adaptor - i find they go missing all the time - it doesnt take much to make them jump off , so my solution (tho its not my idea originally) is to cut a X in a tenis ball or a squash ball if you need to fit it into a small space, and shove it over the pointy centre.

how are you set for special wood for grandma now ? - I can have a rummage in my pile for character blanks if you want.

What do you mean about the squash ball? Is this a way of forming a sort of spring washer to hold the circular bit in place or a replacement, in which case doesn't the pointy bit just stick out of the X? I suspect I'm being thick!

I will have another look under the bed for a dry blank but will come back on your kind offer if I don't find something (suitable beer tokens will of course change hands )

I was thinking of trying out epoxy filling / dying techniques on this little beauty - filling the worm holes and maybe dying the centre - again with a 1 day deadline to preserve my comfort space for the weekend

This will require that I re-attach a glue chuck to the bottom (which now has a lovely curve on it) so that will be the first challenge. Worth trying though as this bowl is next to useless unless I find a way of dealing with the worm holes.

Miles

 

[miles_hot]

Gosh chaps I really pleased by the praise - from you that means a whole lot

Thanks

Miles

 

[wizer]

Have a look at this guys site

How on EARTH does he turn and carve these beasties?

I'd like to see how he does it. Assuming those 'tentacles' are all part of the same piece of wood.

 

[miles_hot]

Tom I guess that the inner section is turned and the outer is just a carving...

Miles

 

[big soft moose]

What do you mean about the squash ball? Is this a way of forming a sort of spring washer to hold the circular bit in place or a replacement, in which case doesn't the pointy bit just stick out of the X? I suspect I'm being thick!

its a replacement - you stick the pointy bit through the X so that its inside the ball, so you essentially have a ball on a morse taper which you can bring up for support without damaging the work piece -

I will have another look under the bed for a dry blank but will come back on your kind offer if I don't find something (suitable beer tokens will of course change hands )

no problem - let me know , off the top of my head on the kiln dried side ive got a mailee burr, a bit of semi spalted walnut, a fiddle backed london plane blank, and a spalted sycamore blank - plus loads of more prosaic wood like oak and sycamore

 

[miles_hot]

no problem - let me know , off the top of my head on the kiln dried side ive got a mailee burr, a bit of semi spalted walnut, a fiddle backed london plane blank, and a spalted sycamore blank - plus loads of more prosaic wood like oak and sycamore

Good grief that's a tempting offer Let me have a root around and also see how the little bowl turns out

Miles

 

[big soft moose]

no problem - let me know , off the top of my head on the kiln dried side ive got a mailee burr, a bit of semi spalted walnut, a fiddle backed london plane blank, and a spalted sycamore blank - plus loads of more prosaic wood like oak and sycamore

Good grief that's a tempting offer Let me have a root around and also see how the little bowl turns out

Miles

btw, that was an offer for one of the above - not for all of it :lol:

 

[wizer]

I used the Patriot bowl reversing jaws for the first time today. Setting it all up was a bit of a faff, but the ability to work freely on the bottom was a revelation. I must invest in a vacuum chuck!

 

[Paul.J]

Great result Miles

 

[johnny.t.]

Miles,thats a cracker('scuse the pun ) Well done on keeping it together!
JT