Carved Maple Bowl

[Tom Hartranft]

Just finished a maple bowl with a carved maple leaf. First, I turned the outside of the bowl on my lathe and mounted it ready for carving. Here the leaf pattern has been applied and I've outline the leaf exterior with a V-tool.

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After finishing the carving, I remounted the bowl on my lathe and turned the inside, then applied finish. Here are some 'completed' photos.

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Tom

[charlie knighton]

well done, like your hand work

i really like to find pieces of real wood furniture that have been hand carved........dying art

thanks for sharing

[Thomas Heck]

Nice work. I like the carving. It adds another aspect of wood work.

[Richard Madden]

Great job! I've tried a little bit of carving, but my results were not near as good as yours.

[Jack Gaskins]

That looks fun. Can I ask where you purchased the chuck holder?

[wes murphy]

Can I ask where you purchased the chuck holder?Craft Supplies has them. http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p/6/-/30/126/-/926/Bosch-Carving-Stand

[Jack Gaskins]

Yeah, seen that one. More interested in the one Tom has that bolts to the bench rather than in your tool post. Looks like a Veritas design.

[Tom Hartranft]

Jack ... the carver's vice is from Lee Valley as is the 5/8" dia rod that is screwed into the bottom of my Nova chuck. The carver's vice does mount on the underside using a bolt through one of my bench's 3/4" dia bench dog holes. Once mounted, the whole assembly is quite solid, easily adjustable, and offers the carving billet at a comfortable height for knife or mallet & gouge carving. I also used this configuration of carver's vice/chuck adapter/chuck on my drill press to drill some consistent-depth indexed plug holes on the sides of another bowl that I turned. Lee Valley offers a number of rod/chuck adapters for different tpi chuck sizes.

Tom

[Jack Gaskins]

Thanks Tom I'll head over to Lee Valley and have a look.