Huge fruit bowl

[Adam Pinson]

Large Olive wood fruit bowl,
31cm x 7cm... Overall height 11cm A real pain to turn, was airborne more than once...

 

[Doug B]

Worth the effort though Adam looks great

 

[Adam Pinson]

Worth the effort though Adam looks great

Many thanks Doug

 

[MARK.B.]

Very nice

 

[scooby]

Agreed, looks very nice.

Have to admit, as a newcomer to turning, it slightly worries me that even experienced turners still experience flying objects. What chance do I have?

 

[Nelly111s]

Must have been interesting, coming off the lathe. Would have been about 7 or 8 Kg when it was whole!

 

[Adam Pinson]

Agreed, looks very nice.

Have to admit, as a newcomer to turning, it slightly worries me that even experienced turners still experience flying objects. What chance do I have?

Agreed, looks very nice.

Have to admit, as a newcomer to turning, it slightly worries me that even experienced turners still experience flying objects. What chance do I have?

It happens to me more than usual because i don't really have access to dry store bought blanks, most of my wood comes to us as firewood and you never know what surprises are contained within... in this case the area where i put the motice had a patch of punky rot, this combined with only having the regular small jaws on my Nova chuck and also trying out a slightly different grind on my bowl gouge caused the projectile events, good job none of my cats were around at the time!

 

[Adam Pinson]

Must have been interesting, coming off the lathe. Would have been about 7 or 8 Kg when it was whole!

It was as if someone chucked a bowling ball at me

 

[Democritus]

Great work, Adam. Keep out of the line of fire!
D.

 

[Paul Hannaby]

Now all you need to do is find some huge fruit! Nice looking bowl, olive wood always has character!

Wrong jaws and dodgy wood will always be a recipe for disaster...