Square bowl photo tutorial

[Toney Robertson]

Maybe this will help someone, at least I hope so.

I thought I would take some pictures as I made a square bowl. This is a piece of walnut 11 1/2" square and about 1 3/4" thick. Pay no attention to the mess in the background, I have no idea how it got that way. LOL

I used a worm wood screw (yes, I know they only rate them up to 10"). A key for me is to make the piece VERY square and get the hole in the middle. Here is the piece mounted.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4043_IMG.jpg

I used the 50mm jaws.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4044_IMG.jpg

Recess done and a small recess for my logo. Pencil line denotes where I want to edge of the base to be.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4045_IMG.jpg

The bottom finished and sanded.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4048_IMG.jpg

The piece turned around and ready to do the inside.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4049_IMG.jpg


Forming the wings.
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4050_IMG.jpg

The inside roughing done and sanded though the initial grits.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4051_IMG.jpg

Using the Cole jaws to remove the recess.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/Misc/140-4052_IMG.jpg

The finished piece. AO and buffed.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/1128.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/1128A.jpg

Toney

[John Keeton]

Tony, great tutorial, accompanied by some excellent pics! You make it look easy - I will have to try this sometime.

Now, if I can just add some dye.......!!:D;)

[Bernie Weishapl]

Thanks for the tutorial. Great looking piece.

[Karl Card]

nice bowl...


I am trying to make one where the corners corve over enough to be the legs and what supports the bowl... I have gotten close but the legs have gone flying each time...

[Frank Van Atta]

nice bowl...


I am trying to make one where the corners corve over enough to be the legs and what supports the bowl... I have gotten close but the legs have gone flying each time...

That's why they call them winged bowls. :D

[Mikail Khan]

Nice tutorial. Thanks for posting.

MK

[Mike McAfee]

Thanks for your contribution of time and talent! Cool looking piece!

MMc

[Toney Robertson]

nice bowl...


I am trying to make one where the corners corve over enough to be the legs and what supports the bowl... I have gotten close but the legs have gone flying each time...

Karl,

Like this one.

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/1121.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj101/iublue/1121A.jpg

Cherry.

Toney

[brian watts]

Tony, great tutorial, accompanied by some excellent pics! You make it look easy - I will have to try this sometime.

Now, if I can just add some dye.......!!:D;)


man you do make it look so easy and i BET it is not that easy.. thanks i didnot know how they made them..brian

[Roland Martin]

Thanks Toney. Excellent job with the pics.

[Allen Neighbors]

Thanks for the tutorial, Toney. Such an elegant looking piece, too!! Well done!!

[James Combs]

Excellent Tutorial. Now I know what my next turning is going to be.

[Nathan Hawkes]

Toney, this is a great post! Thanks for sharing your work with us; the step by step is wonderful. I have a couple short pieces of thick cherry that are leftovers that I might have to give this a try with.

[Paul Douglass]

Thanks for posting the tutorial. Do you sand that while it is turning and if so doesn't it hurt!!?

[alex carey]

nice tutorial and nice bowl.

[Karl Card]

Not intentionally trying to be a theif and steal the thread but this is related to the thread so please forgive..

http://marleyturned.com/Video_Square_Bowl.html

I do not like the background music but the instruction is good.

[Lionel Mercier]

Hello Toney,
well done tutorial and well done piece
with uniform thickness on the sqares...not so easy.
Friendly, Lionel.

[Toney Robertson]

Thanks for posting the tutorial. Do you sand that while it is turning and if so doesn't it hurt!!?

I do power sand with the lathe spinning out to the wings and then I sand the wings by hand with the power off. This bowl was 11 1/2" square so basically I power sanded an 11 1/2" circle and hand sanded the rest.

If that makes any sense! :D

Toney

[Chris Stolicky]

Toney, I have always wanted to make a bowl like the second one you posted with the four 'legs'. It will happen someday. I attempted it once and ended up with something similar to the first bowl you created this demo for. The problem is that I used a piece of kiln dried ash, which is a very open grained wood. It was a difficult wood and just did not work well. The thin legs just splintered. I think that if you use something with a tighter grain it is a easier to cut.

Good job and thank you for the tutorial.

[Rob Cunningham]

Thanks for the tutorial Toney. That's on my "someday I'm gonna try that" list.:)