London Woodturning competition smiled upon me

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Not first price, but a second in the faceplate turning and 3th in spindle turning, I was pretty happy with, so I'll like to share the happy feeling :D :D

12 ½" X 4" Norway Maple bowl and a set of Birdhouses for the spindle turning entry.
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[Joe Adams]

Congratulations!!!

[George Guadiane]

Congratulations, nice bowl, well deserved recognition.

[Brian Effinger]

Congrats Leo! :)

[David Christopher]

congrats Leo, all of the pieces that Ive seen of yours are all award worthy

[Baxter Smith]

Congratulations Leo! Neat use of grain and handles on the bowls. Can't help thinking, "How did you do that?":D

[Bernie Weishapl]

Congrats Leo.

[Dennis Puskar]

Way to go Leo, Congratulations.

Dennis

[Richard Madison]

Good for you Leo! And as Baxter said, very striking color/grain on the bowl handles.

[Robert McGowen]

Congrats! It looks like you deserved it.

[Jon Lanier]

Congratulations. Really cool looking handles. :cool:

[Steve Schlumpf]

Congrats Leo!!!

Exceptionally clean lines on your bowl! Great form!

Birdhouses must have caught a lot of attention at the show as well!

Glad to see you get some recognition for your work! Well deserved! Thanks for sharing!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Congrats Leo! I've admired all of your turnings!

[Joshua Dinerstein]

Congrats Leo. That is a great bowl. I love what you did with the color in the grain and utilizing to bring about a truly fabulous finished piece. Excellent work!

Joshua

[Bill Bolen]

Congrat's Leo. Beautiful pieces and something to very much be proud of...Bill...

[CW McClellan]

Alright Leo
Bowl is fine but Bird houses are A1 :D

[Dan Forman]

Congrat's on your prizes Leo, looking good.

Dan

[Toney Robertson]

Good for you Leo.

Toney

[John Keeton]

Congrats, Leo, on some well deserved recognition!! I love the bowl - great lines, fantastic use of the coloration, and just overall a nice piece.

Like Baxter, I am extremely interested in the technique on doing the handles.

[Jack Mincey]

Congratulations Leo, that is awesome.
JaCK

[Roland Martin]

Congratulations Leo. Very nice centering on the bowl, awesome piece. Birdhouses are also great!

[Thom Sturgill]

Congrats, Leo. Very much deserved.

[Tony De Masi]

Congrats Leo. Beautiful work on the bowl, just love it.

Tony

[Jeff Nicol]

Leo, I love the bowl with the heart wood on the handles! It is a great looking piece with wonderful contrast. Congrats on doing well on all you entrants in the judging. Some day I will have to enter something in a show an see what happens.

Again great job,

Jeff

[Maria Alvarado]

Great job Leo, congratulations!

[charlie knighton]

congratulations, Leo

[Doug W Swanson]

That's great Leo.

I love the bowl. How did you do the handles?

Your birdhouses are always nice too!

Doug

[Curt Fuller]

Congrats Leo! I really like how you used the heartwood of that maple in the handles. Nice birdhouses too.

[Joe Little]

Congratulations, beautiful pieces and I love the handles

[Michael Short]

Congratulations Leo !!! That bowl is very sharp.

[gary Zimmel]

Congrats Leo. Very well deserving...

[mike holden]

Congratulations!
Love the bowl!!

Mike

[Matt Ranum]

All I can do is echo whats already been stated, awesome job and congratulations!

[Peter Lamb]

Leo,
Your efforts are always superior as is your advice.
Congratulations!
Peter

[steven carter]

Congratulations Leo, it proves they have pretty good judges.


Steve

[Terry Murphy]

:D:D:D
congadulation!

Terry

[Rob Cunningham]

Congratulations Leo a well deserved honor

[Mark Hubl]

Congrats Leo.

Excellent work. I think the bowl is exceptional. Love the handles and color.

[Pete Jordan]

Congrats!!!!!!!
I have always admired your work!

[David Walser]

Leo,

That's some very fine work. One question, which "London" are we talking about, the one in Ontario, the one in England, or somewhere else? Anyway, very impressive work.

[David E Keller]

Congratulations... Love the bowl.

[Mark Hix]

congratulations. they are all beautiful.

[Harvey Ghesser]

Just wanted to add my congratulations on a long list, Leo! You do beautiful work!:D

Harvey

[Maylon Harvey]

Way ta go Leo. Fantastic!!!

[Tom Giacomo]

Very nice work, congradulations.

[Leo Van Der Loo]

WoW I'd like to thank each and everyone of you for taking the time to respond to my post individually but I guess that's not really needed, so Thank you all.

I saw there was the question of "How'd he do that" I have changed it a bit since my first one that I did 10 years ago, but it still is quite a bit of work, mostly in the extra sanding that's required.

This is the first one I did, it is a Hickory platter I made for LOML, and this picture was made before I had a digital camera, so it's just scanned, sorry.
I did very little cutting on this one, mostly sanded the rim that I left on.

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But basically all my handled bowls and platters are made similar except for the Apple bowl where I made cutouts to get the handles.

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I start with a wet turned bowl that has enough wood left on to make the handles, this can be just at the rim or lower down, like with this Elm bowl.

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When returning the dried bowl I leave the area where the handles are going to be as it is, then when the bowl is mostly returned I decide on how thick and wide the handles have to be and cut this to the thickness I think is right, after that the sawing and filing/sanding start, first draw the with of the handles and try to get them exactly even on either side, if the rim is wide I will use the bandsaw to cut most of the wood that has to be removed, then the sanding with disks first and later by hand to get the wood all like the rest of the bowl, also use files to get crisp corners , basically I use anything the works from Dremel to saw-blades to power sanding disk and then hand sand and polish.

or leave it all on like with this Cherry bowl, there's room for making things different in one from the other, just the way I like it.

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It can look real nice, but it is a lot of extra work, though sometimes the piece just calls out for it, like this one :D :)

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[Baxter Smith]

It can look real nice, but it is a lot of extra work, though sometimes the piece just calls out for it, like this one :D :)

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Thanks for the explanation Leo. All that extra work can have its rewards!:)
Congratulations again!

[Mauricio Ulloa]

Congratulations!