Mark Beall
12-11-2009, 9:34 PM
Not sure I should even post this, but I'm actually fairly happy with how this turned out (no pun intended).
With a whole 4 hours of turning experience under my belt (7 hours now), I figured I'd try turning a bowl. I had a scrap piece of 8/4 cherry with a 4/4 piece of maple glued on top from another project. It seemed big enough to make a small bowl, so why not. The bowl is about 6" in diameter. In theory, the maple on top should have been an even thickness all the way around, but I got the blank a little off when I mounted it, I'm just going to go with "I meant to do that".
Things I learned and things I'm still trying to figure out:
- had a problem with tearout in parts of the inside of the bowl, managed to clean up most of it with a scraper and sanding, not sure what the best way to deal with this is
- I need to work on my sharpening skills more. I did buy a wolverine jig to try to compensate for inexperience with money. That helped, but I'm not getting a very even edge on my bowl gouge
- applying too much force when turning off the tenon on the bowl will launch the bowl :o
- the turnings from a piece of wood take up about 100x the volume of the original piece :)
- I need to learn how to use a camera (or get a better one), the background in the pictures is a piece of newsprint, so the colors aren't very accurate (had to turn off the flash since it washed the colors out)
mark
With a whole 4 hours of turning experience under my belt (7 hours now), I figured I'd try turning a bowl. I had a scrap piece of 8/4 cherry with a 4/4 piece of maple glued on top from another project. It seemed big enough to make a small bowl, so why not. The bowl is about 6" in diameter. In theory, the maple on top should have been an even thickness all the way around, but I got the blank a little off when I mounted it, I'm just going to go with "I meant to do that".
Things I learned and things I'm still trying to figure out:
- had a problem with tearout in parts of the inside of the bowl, managed to clean up most of it with a scraper and sanding, not sure what the best way to deal with this is
- I need to work on my sharpening skills more. I did buy a wolverine jig to try to compensate for inexperience with money. That helped, but I'm not getting a very even edge on my bowl gouge
- applying too much force when turning off the tenon on the bowl will launch the bowl :o
- the turnings from a piece of wood take up about 100x the volume of the original piece :)
- I need to learn how to use a camera (or get a better one), the background in the pictures is a piece of newsprint, so the colors aren't very accurate (had to turn off the flash since it washed the colors out)
mark