ash bowl

[Phil Pascoe]

Last night's club competition, it managed a second in the novices. Strange how different people's ideas and tastes are - the one I though won by a mile wasn't placed, and the won that beat me I didn't place.

 

[NazNomad]

Lovely grain, and I really like the coloured rim.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Thank you. The rim was intended to be a little wider and undercut a bit further, but because the staining had to be done before the turning to keep the edges clean when I got a tiny tear I could do no other than make it narrower. Swmbo thought it would have been better if the colour was more solid (so did I) but everyone else thought it's better as it is.
Unusually the first three in the class all had coloured rims, the others blue.

 

[gregmcateer]

Nice job, sir.

 

[Dalboy]

A nice looking bowl but a little more attention with tool control needed on the inside. I think the red rim does nothing for the bowl and it would have looked better without but then that is a personal thing.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Yes, the two little marks on the end grain. It's annoying, because there is no sign of any tearing and the finish is 100% smooth. I think I could be sanding them now and they'd still be there.

 

[Dalboy]

I even get it now and again and have to sharpen the tool and take very light cuts for the last couple of cuts over the surface

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Did all that.

 

[bobajobob]

Nice bowl Phil. I love ash and it stains so well. The bleed is a problem though when you want to limit the boundaries cleanly. I've not worked it out yet. Got any ideas?
How did you sand the inside too? I get marks like that occasionally and for no accountable reason. They are beggars to remove, almost like bruising. Perhaps deep fibre
pull during roughing.

ATB
Bob

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I suspect you're right. The way to get perfect edges on the stain is to stain and polish the edge before turning the rest of the bowl. As soon as the bottom was finished I reversed the blank, turned and finished a circle about an inch wide where the rim was to be and stained and oiled it. Then when it was dry I turned the inside - I had nearly finished the outside before reversing it, just leaving a couple of very fine cuts to get rid of any stain bleed.

 

[Dalboy]

Also to help with pulled grain is that when you spot it either use sander sealer before the last cuts to strengthen the fibres so they do not pull out or wet the inside before the last cut that causes the fibres to swell and hold together better on the last cut. Which ever you try depends on the final finish that you want to apply.

One thing I do for staining and to stop bleeding or soaking in to the wood is to seal the wood before applying this again depends on what you are after. And then like you turn to give a sharp line

 

[bobajobob]

The voices of experience. Thanks.

Bob