Josh Bowman
05-05-2016, 8:57 PM
Maple 12" across, 3-1/4" high and the rim is 1-3/16" wide.
I had roughed this out ages ago and had it a cardboard box and figured I'd give it a whirl on the lathe. The maple was pleasant to finish turn, but I hated to just waste away the wood and make another, thin bowl. With that thickness I wanted to do some kind of edge treatment to that massive rim. We had Harvey Meyer do a demo about a year ago and I had bought all the goodies to do a basket of illusion from Harvey. I had been taken with them since I first saw them at the Tennessee Association of Woodturners symposium several years ago when Jim Adkins tossed me one to look at that he had in the instant gallery. I can say this, it was fun, but I still can't imagine doing a really big vessel. This is a project for me where I would go out fiddle with it a bit, then walk away. I kept the bowl on the chuck and found Trent Bosch's carving stand very helpful along with a bright light, my reading glasses and a magnifier head band........I was quite a sight to see, hunched over my bench painting those little squares.
C&C is always welcome
I had roughed this out ages ago and had it a cardboard box and figured I'd give it a whirl on the lathe. The maple was pleasant to finish turn, but I hated to just waste away the wood and make another, thin bowl. With that thickness I wanted to do some kind of edge treatment to that massive rim. We had Harvey Meyer do a demo about a year ago and I had bought all the goodies to do a basket of illusion from Harvey. I had been taken with them since I first saw them at the Tennessee Association of Woodturners symposium several years ago when Jim Adkins tossed me one to look at that he had in the instant gallery. I can say this, it was fun, but I still can't imagine doing a really big vessel. This is a project for me where I would go out fiddle with it a bit, then walk away. I kept the bowl on the chuck and found Trent Bosch's carving stand very helpful along with a bright light, my reading glasses and a magnifier head band........I was quite a sight to see, hunched over my bench painting those little squares.
C&C is always welcome