Originally Posted by
daryl moses
Great looking NE bowl David, the wall thickness looks even all the way around which is difficult for me.
Question regarding your original post...........did you use the #1,2, and 3 knives when you cored out the blank? I recently purchased the Oneway coring rig myself. But I only purchased the #2 and 3 knives as most of my bowls fall in the 10-14" category. Anything much smaller than 10" or larger than 13" don't go well in my area. I do hollow the first cored bowl out by hand though as it is small and only takes a few minutes to rough out.
Have you cored any NE bowls yet? The Oneway makes it so easy, I can even now make the wall thickness pretty uniform.
Used #1, #2 & #3 knives on the original pics. Would have gotten 8.5" bowl out of the first one if it didn't break off. Haven't cored NE yet but have a couple recently acquired cherry blanks that might be candidates. I have the #4 knife but probably won't be able to use that much unless I upgrade to a 24" lathe but do have some 16" x 6"--8" bone dry catalpa blanks. One thing I did learn about using the Oneway for the first time with such a big blank was to finish off the diameter of the big blank to a size where you can get the banjo underneath to slide out of the way or use it to put a tenon on the cored bowl. Never had to worry about that with the McNaughton.
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