You spin me right round....

[loz]

Lookin good !!

 

[wizer]

I left the spiggot a little long and I didn't flatten it. Which lead to it not running true. So the rim is not even all the way round and it doesn't sit right.

I did have a lot of problems with the oak. John.B came to my rescue offering me some of his sharp tools that where of a higher quality than the club's. Not sure if this was a good thing or not as now I want 2 new bowl gauges, a hollowing tool, etc, etc, etc

 

[Bodrighy]

I did have a lot of problems with the oak. John.B came to my rescue offering me some of his sharp tools that where of a higher quality than the club's. Not sure if this was a good thing or not as now I want 2 new bowl gauges, a hollowing tool, etc, etc, etc

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Slow down Tom. I was lucky and got given some tools including things like ring tool, hook tool etc but have had to go back time and again and simply learn to use the basics like a skew etc. If you can control your urges do pens, only need a spindle gouge and excellent practice for small, contolled cuts, bowls, only need a spindle & bowl gouge. In fact I think I'll start a new thread asking what tools people have giot that they rarely if ever use.

Pete

 

[Jenx]

Nice one Tom ....
Getting there !
I agree with pete Re : Oak .... not the easiest stuff !

 

[Blister]

Nice one Tom ....
Getting there !
I agree with pete Re : Oak .... not the easiest stuff !

Oak :lol:

sorts the men from the boys :wink: :wink: :wink:


:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[johnny.t.]

Well, I call it a bowl....

I'd call it a bowl too wizer Good stuff.

When I started a few months ago all I had was oak and it is a bu##er to finish but looks nice when you have. Personally I love the stuff.

JT

 

[TEP]

If that is your first bowl, you ain't got nowt' to be ashamed of Tom. Quite good I think. Although I must agree it would have been easier with another type of timber.

 

[wizer]

Cheers guys. Yep I did some bowl work with Allen, but never completed one or even got it close to a finish.

The oak was a pig, especially on the little CCSL lathe with less than sharp tools. It really struggled

 

[DaveL]

Well yes that is a bowl, looks good to me. I like oak, don't care if its hard to work, just needs more practise.

I see The Slope TM is still quite steep!

 

[wizer]

Cheers Dave. I'm just about to pull the trigger on one of these
Henry Taylor Bowl Gouge Superflute - 3/8"

Should do me for starting with bowls and not too expensive.

 

[Jenx]

Yum !!!! :tool: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: \/ :norm:
Looks good !

 

[wizer]

Here we go again:

Thought I'd have a play today. Took a piece of Utile off the shelf and screwed it to the face plate.

It went reasonably well but I got quite a bit of tearout which not even 80g could tame.

I went through the grades to 320g anyway but it's not worth applying a finish. I've left it on the plate for now. Perhaps I will go back to it once I have setup the RS Fingernail jig. I was using a standard bowl gauge and I wasn't sure if or how you do a pull cut with one.

I left the base quite thick around the face plate. Mainly because I wasn't sure about how to finish the bottom. If I go back to it, I might either make one of those donut thingies or just carve a foot.

 

[CHJ]

Give it a coat of sanding sealer before you touch the surface again, may swell & give more support to the fibres and stop them pulling.
If you can run to a friction sanding system like the "Grip a Disc" you wont get so many radial scratches either.

 

[wizer]

Cheers Chas. I was thinking about making one of those. They seem wildly expensive.

 

[Jenx]

Tom .. I'd be tempted to see her through to a finish, and apply a finish !

try and see if you can get a wee improvement on the surface if you can.. then, I'd be tempted to ram a good dose of wax at it when she's revving, and get the old paper towel to work, to melt it.
It's amazing what little imperfections carnauba/beeswax will disguise !

You might be surprised at how well she could end up !

8) 8)

 

[loz]

Looking good so far !,

( ps - if you manage to make sone of them sander thingies ( the spinny on e) post up the plans would you ? ;-) )

 

[Bodrighy]

If that is indeed your first attempt at a bowl then it's one to be proubnd of. The shape will, I assume be a bit flatter when parted off or were you leaving it with the screw holes in? Some do. The shape is not perhaps the usual but that doesn't make it bad. There are no rules regarding these things only what is pleasing to the eye and, in the case of bowls, practicallity. As said finish it of Tom and hang on to it for future reference.

Pete

 

[wizer]

Got out into the workshop for a couple of hours last night. Just as well, as today I awoke with a rotten cold.

On the way out of George's on Sat he offered Richard and I some offcuts he was going to chuck. Richard took a load of Elm blanks and I took a couple of blocks of spalted something or other? Beech?

On the way back from Leicester I was day dreaming about a plan I had for the blocks.

It was a bit knarley, so I planed it up so that it was perfectly square and true.

I then took a hand plane and cleaned up the planer marks and the end grain

Screwed it to the faceplate

When I put it on the lathe I checked my setup 3 or 4 times and even stepped back to think about it for a minute. I knew this was a hairy task. The lathe was started on it's slowest setting and then gradually brought up til the lathe vibrated a bit and then down til that stopped.

With my newly RS Jig sharpened bowl gouge I set about shaping the inside. All went fairly well. I've still got a lot to learn with turning but this was probably the best\quickest I have hollowed out a bowl shape.

I carefully sanded the inside down to 1000g and took it off the face plate. Taking a hand plane I removed enough material from the bottom to vanish the screw holes.

I then went on to clean up the end grain with the plane and disaster struck. I didn't get a pic, but basically I split out the fibres of the side grain. This meant I'd have to re-cut the end. Once I had it looked wrong so I went for a design change.

I took a compass and traced a line to follow the curve of the bowl and then...

....cut it out on the bandsaw. I had the wrong type of blade in the BS so it needed some cleaning up. No problem on the bobbin sander.

I then ran out of time and had to clear up and get back to my husband duties.

I've been thinking about it all day, staring at these pictures and I'm really not sure. It needs something else but I'm just not sure what. Perhaps I should not have curved it and just chucked it away. But I can't bare to throw stuff away. I must say that the wood isn't particularly beautiful but I guess that's why George was binning it. Still, it's all practice. I might do some sort of carving on the blank side.

What do you think. Please speak your mind. I can only learn through constrictive criticism.

 

[loz]

Needs a clock insert in it !!!

Loz

 

[big soft moose]

well its different

its always worth experimenting even if it doesnt always work out. You could put it back on the lathe on the other side and turn a little pedestal then mount a nutcracker et voila a snack bowl (ask blister about the nut cracker he made before xmas)

on the oak bowl , what you need there is a sanding arbor in a drill with a foam backed disc - get some 40G and give it some welly , then work back up through the grades and finish - lots of mine were like that when i started out (the ocasional one still is)

if the tearing really wont sand out you could also put it back on the late and use a parting tool to cut a cove or line through it , or use a dremel to carve a design over it , or a pyrography iron , or ... lots of things ?

and if it doesnt work out then so what .. its all a learning experience.