First Turn!

[Lee Koepke]

Here's my first turning. A co-worker that I have made a few things for told me last week that she has an old bowl that use to be like a big mortar/pestle set and was looking for a large 'masher' .. so for lack of something better to start with, here it is. Took a 14" chunk from a large oak limb that fell this past storm season, chucked it up ... and here it is!

(BTW, I just ordered a starter kit of Benjamins from PSI so I have something to turn a bowl soon )

Thanks for getting me started ....

[Michael James]

Hey you gotta make yourself a bonker for around the lathe.... and keep it!
I shudder everytime I look at the 1st one (pine) and all the endgrain tearouts....but it bonks just fine thank you..... and keeps me in touch with where I started from!
Carry on.... Nice job too!
Michael

[Rick Robbins]

looks very nice. you have the Fever now. Rick:)

[Roger Chandler]

Great Bonker!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Very nice first bonker!

Did you enjoy it?

[Sean Hughto]

Excellent bonker!!! Fun, right?

[Steve Schlumpf]

Yup! Looks pretty good to me! Looking forward to seeing what you turn next!

[Tony De Masi]

That's a great start. Just wait til you get that tool set too.

[David Christopher]

good looking " masher " Lee, ......did you have fun ???

[David DeCristoforo]

Most people call this a "bonker". But I have always prefered the more dignified "whacker". But you have introduced a new term here that I like even better... masher. So let me say... nice masher.

[Lee Koepke]

Yeah it was fun .... poor technique lead to a little larger groove in the barrell and a little thinner handle :D

Now I have a better feel for how to hold the cutting edge on the little skew that I have.

A guy at work wants a true Bonker ... since this was for a girl, I figured I'd give it a more 'feminine' name :)

[gary Zimmel]

Great job on the masher Lee....
You got to love it when a plan comes together.
And congrats on putting your first order in. It won't be the last buddy....

[David E Keller]

That's the best looking masher I've ever seen. OK... It's the only masher I've ever seen, but it is nice. Welcome to your new addiction!

[John Keeton]

Excellent masher there, Lee!!! And, starting with oak makes it even better.

Thanks for getting me started ....Let's just hope you feel that way $3-4,000 from now!!!:D:D:D

[Karl Card]

Excellent masher there, Lee!!! And, starting with oak makes it even better.
Let's just hope you feel that way $3-4,000 from now!!!:D:D:D


Oh hellllll......Ö¿Ö

You know when i first looked at it I thought it could be a soda bottle...

[Robert McGowen]

and so it begins........ :D

[Josh Bowman]

I like it and the grain.

[Baxter Smith]

Looks like it will do the job!

[bob svoboda]

Very nice bonker/whacker/masher.

[Kenneth Hertzog]

Lee
Masher looks great
Round and Round we go
Is this for someone else or for hitting your wallet :eek:
I think John K has hit it on the head. $$$$$$$
good luck and welcome to the vortex
ken

[Allen Neighbors]

Nice one!! Notice I didn't say, "nice masher/whacker/Bonker"... What ever you call it, it is the one that got you started... so, you didn't hear it from me... but that sucking sound is the V-o-r-t-e-x.... and you are now about dead center... :D:D:D

[Lee Koepke]

......... I couldnt give it up. It wasnt as rustic as she needed ( I never saw the matching Dough Bowl ) ... but now I have a better idea for what will work, so this 'masher' goes on a rack/hanger/display so I can remember where I started ....

[Joe Shinall]

Most people call this a "bonker". But I have always prefered the more dignified "whacker". But you have introduced a new term here that I like even better... masher. So let me say... nice masher.

There goes those technologiwoodical terms again. :D Chuck another one to the dictionary.

[James Roberts]

Swell masher, Lee. They are just plain fun to make, aren't they?