Cherry Bowl Blank

[Jon Nuckles]

Beautifully big cherry bowl! It will be great just to look at, or you can load it up with pumpkins for display in the fall. Hope it dries intact for you.

[charlie knighton]

very nice, nice form

[Prashun Patel]

I love your stuff. Nice ripple you got there.

[Tim Rinehart]

Hey Baxter...I'd like to see some additional shots/details on your outboard rest as well. Curious how you lock it down...assuming you have something at the base...i.e chunk of cast iron or concrete, but would like to think something more rigid?

[Mike Cruz]

What's not to like? Except that it is "only" 23 inches...

[Richard Jones]

Baxter,

Great looking bowl, and I really like the beads. Nice job.

[Pat Scott]

Nice outboard tool rest setup, but I like the arm you have for your lights, outlet strip, and dust collection hose! (picture 6). Is that home made? I'd like to see more pictures of it.

Oh yeah, and nice bowl! I would have roughed it out and let it dry a couple years before turning it, I just don't like warped bowls. Love the looks of Cherry, which I could get my hands on some. I might have cut that big blank down and made two 12" bowls (or would that have been four 12" bowls for a 24" chunk?). But a 23" bowl is pretty impressive.

[Lori Kleinberg]

Baxter, that is one very nice BIG bowl. I too like the beads.

[Fred Belknap]

Sure is a nice big bowl. I'm like Pat I would have twice turned it to keep it from warping. Big bowls are a lot of work, about 17" is the best I can do with my set up. I'm impressed with one 23" but don't have much desire to do one.

[Baxter Smith]

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

...... When it is dry how will you reverse chuck it to do the bottom? .....

My thought at present would be to screw a 24" circle of plywood to a faceplate. Mark out a 23 1/4 circle using the toolrest to hold the pencil steady. Center the bowl in the circle that was drawn and shim it so it doesn't rock. Hot glue and strap it to hold it in place. I assume that would hold well enough to flatten the bottom. My largest vacuum chuck is 6". I don't think there would be a problem holding it, just centering it.

..... It is hard to tell what the final size is, could you give us the dimensions?
.......

Steve, it ended up 23 1/4 by about 6-7".

Hey Baxter...I'd like to see some additional shots/details on your outboard rest as well. Curious how you lock it down...assuming you have something at the base...i.e chunk of cast iron or concrete, but would like to think something more rigid?

Tim, the rest isn't really locked "down". The arm is locked in place by tighening the two 1/2" bolts. There is a straight line between the tool rest and the floor.
Outboard Stand Boring Bar.jpg
Boring Bar Setup.jpg

What's not to like? Except that it is "only" 23 inches...

Sorry to dissappoint Mike. 26+ might have been an option but I thought it would be best to turn away all the sapwood.

Nice outboard tool rest setup, but I like the arm you have for your lights, outlet strip, and dust collection hose! (picture 6). Is that home made? I'd like to see more pictures of it..........

Pat, the arm is an assortment of scraps I had in inventory. I cobbled them together after seeing the arm on the new 4224 this summer. I was in the lathe modifications mode at the time.
Power and Light Bar.jpg
Thanks again. I was lucky to stumble across such nice wood.

[Mike Cruz]

Baxter, you should market that arm assembly...