Ken Fitzgerald
10-15-2010, 4:55 PM
I can't remember the last time I turned a bowl.......
My latest turning project.a cherry pedestal table..turned into a finishing nightmare and the LOML declared it done Wednesday......
So yesterday I chucked up a roughed out 13 1/2" diameter bowl of english walnut and I'm pretty sure Joel Sauter gave it to me.
So I started finish turning it. Got the tenon round again.
Chucked it up.....started finishing the outside. Got it round again...
Hogged out enough of the inside to get it round again and then flattened the rim. Sure seem to be having tearout problems.....and I'm getting some "threading" going on......I must be doing something wrong......
The LOML had surgery Monday...and catering to her every whim has been my main goal this week.
A local grocery chain has their 13 hour sale on Thursday. I swore I would never attend one of these events unless they drove my cold dead body by in the hearse enroute to my funeral. I don't shop Walmart either....unless Sharon is out of town. Well, of course she wants some stuff on sale during 13 hour sale. Love will cause a man to do things he doesn't want to...or can't find any logic in....or have any desire to do but ...Hey! She's the mother of my 3 kids....Grandmother of my 7 grandkids....she is the great-grandmother of my 4 great-grandkids and you know...she's put up with me for 42 years..... So I went shopping during the 13 hour sale.
Then I stopped to pick up the little brass plaque I had engraved for my latest project.
Then I fixed lunch for us.....went and voted in the local school election......idiots on both sides of that issue.
Got home.....a local sprinkler company is blowing out my neighbors sprinking system. So..I con them into blowing mine out while they are in the area. They will bill me for it but it's done for this season.
Finally I got back to that roughed out bowl this morning.
Its amazing how much you can forget about the process. It dawned on me that I was using a new bowl gouge for the 1st time and I hadn't sharpened it. Well a few minutes at the grinder and back to the wood.
Things are improving remarkably!
The amount of tear out is reduced but still a fair amount.....then I remember....light cuts.....shear cut.....vertical shear cut......
Things are getting better.......
Now about that time I made a minor mistake and moved my bowl gouge out to the rim to take the sharp edge off the rim.
Ooops.....improper presentation of the bowl gouge on the rim resulted in a gigantic catch....broke the tenon....launched the 13 1/2" bowl......
One of the better points about getting old is I don't think fast enough to come out with some of the profanity I picked up while working in the oil fields or during my 8 years in the U. S. Navy. Mom would have proud of her little boy Kenny for not spewing profanity.
So....back on the lathe....luckily...it's thick enough...between the live center and the chuck.....turn a new tenon.
I am starting to remember what I had forgotten.....unforturnately due to aging.....I am relearning the lessons of bowl turning through experience before I can remember what I learned the first time.
So ....go head laugh at the old guy......He's laughing....:o:p
My latest turning project.a cherry pedestal table..turned into a finishing nightmare and the LOML declared it done Wednesday......
So yesterday I chucked up a roughed out 13 1/2" diameter bowl of english walnut and I'm pretty sure Joel Sauter gave it to me.
So I started finish turning it. Got the tenon round again.
Chucked it up.....started finishing the outside. Got it round again...
Hogged out enough of the inside to get it round again and then flattened the rim. Sure seem to be having tearout problems.....and I'm getting some "threading" going on......I must be doing something wrong......
The LOML had surgery Monday...and catering to her every whim has been my main goal this week.
A local grocery chain has their 13 hour sale on Thursday. I swore I would never attend one of these events unless they drove my cold dead body by in the hearse enroute to my funeral. I don't shop Walmart either....unless Sharon is out of town. Well, of course she wants some stuff on sale during 13 hour sale. Love will cause a man to do things he doesn't want to...or can't find any logic in....or have any desire to do but ...Hey! She's the mother of my 3 kids....Grandmother of my 7 grandkids....she is the great-grandmother of my 4 great-grandkids and you know...she's put up with me for 42 years..... So I went shopping during the 13 hour sale.
Then I stopped to pick up the little brass plaque I had engraved for my latest project.
Then I fixed lunch for us.....went and voted in the local school election......idiots on both sides of that issue.
Got home.....a local sprinkler company is blowing out my neighbors sprinking system. So..I con them into blowing mine out while they are in the area. They will bill me for it but it's done for this season.
Finally I got back to that roughed out bowl this morning.
Its amazing how much you can forget about the process. It dawned on me that I was using a new bowl gouge for the 1st time and I hadn't sharpened it. Well a few minutes at the grinder and back to the wood.
Things are improving remarkably!
The amount of tear out is reduced but still a fair amount.....then I remember....light cuts.....shear cut.....vertical shear cut......
Things are getting better.......
Now about that time I made a minor mistake and moved my bowl gouge out to the rim to take the sharp edge off the rim.
Ooops.....improper presentation of the bowl gouge on the rim resulted in a gigantic catch....broke the tenon....launched the 13 1/2" bowl......
One of the better points about getting old is I don't think fast enough to come out with some of the profanity I picked up while working in the oil fields or during my 8 years in the U. S. Navy. Mom would have proud of her little boy Kenny for not spewing profanity.
So....back on the lathe....luckily...it's thick enough...between the live center and the chuck.....turn a new tenon.
I am starting to remember what I had forgotten.....unforturnately due to aging.....I am relearning the lessons of bowl turning through experience before I can remember what I learned the first time.
So ....go head laugh at the old guy......He's laughing....:o:p