First Bowl After VFD

[Skip Spaulding]

I turned my 1st bowl after getting my 2hp 3ph motor and VFD on my Nova 1624. I sure do like the VFD, no belt changes, just turn the potentiometer! Motor is real quiet and smooth. I haven't tried my McNaughton bowl corer yet, but I have to believe that extra 1/2 hp will help.
I turned a cherry bowl 11-1/2"x4", couldn't get my vacuum chuck to fit inside curve so it gave me a good excuse to make a "Straka Chuck", I welded a 1-1/4"x8 nut on a large flat washer for my faceplate,worked great for turning the bottom of the bowl.
Will try to load pictures. Comments welcome. Bowl was rough turned, DNA'd, paper bag wraped, dried, trued up tenon and finish turned.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful bowl Skip. Glad to hear the VFD is working well for you. Really nice isn't it? Good looking chuck.

[Richard Jones]

That's a good looking bowl, and love the rim.

Rich

[David E Keller]

Beautiful... I love the rim embellishment.

[Steve Mawson]

Like the bowl and like the set up even better for turning the bottom. Cant be much cost in a nut and washer.

[alex carey]

love the burned rim, nice job.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Skip - nice work on the bowl! Glad to hear your lathe is working well! Nice chuck! Been a number of times where a donut chuck saves the day!

[Steve Harder]

I turned my 1st bowl after getting my 2hp 3ph motor and VFD on my Nova 1624. I sure do like the VFD, no belt changes, just turn the potentiometer! Motor is real quiet and smooth.

Steve - could pass along the detailed specs on the motor and VFD that you used? I'm not ready to make the jump yet but I'm taking notes.

[Rob Cunningham]

Good looking bowl Skip. I like the rim detail.

[Stephen Massman]

I would like these specs also.



Steve - could pass along the detailed specs on the motor and VFD that you used? I'm not ready to make the jump yet but I'm taking notes.

[Roland Falk]

Ditto on the specs.
thanks