brian zawatsky
07-15-2016, 9:28 PM
So a few weeks ago I made this bowl, which was intended as a wedding gift for a friend of ours. This was the subject of another thread about turning KD maple, in case anyone is keeping score lol.
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So I made a few big mistakes with this one. For starters, I screwed up when hollowing the inside and cut the sides too steep, ending up with a wide flat bottom. I think the wide rim threw me off. So I'm hollowing away, next thing you know I see light coming through the wood on the bottom of the bowl. I nearly parted off the top half!
My solution for that was to turn a shallow groove and fill it with inlace to hide the boo boo. The inlace on the rim was part of the plan from the get go. This seemed to work until I was sanding the outside and saw a little blue streak showing through. Rats.
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Anyway, the reason I had so much sanding in the first place is that I had grain tear out to get rid of. End grain tear out has been the bane of my bowl turning journey since its inception. Then today, while turning a replacement for the above boo boo, I had a flash of clarity. Instead of rushing through roughing the shape of the bowl, I thought I'd take some advice and spend some time making practice finishing cuts as I went. Finally got the hang of a super light, tear out free push cut on the outside of the bowl!!!! I was ecstatic lol!
By the time I finished I was covered in whispy little streamers of sugar maple.There are still some light tool marks to contend with, but I'm hoping some work with a NRS will get rid of them. In the last pic you can see the torn grain from the roughing cut, and the nice smooth finish cut below it. I know this is no big deal to most of you guys, since a lot of you are pretty accomplished turners, but it was huge in my basement shop!! Haha
Now on to learning how to get that same no-tear out cut on the inside of the bowl too.
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So I made a few big mistakes with this one. For starters, I screwed up when hollowing the inside and cut the sides too steep, ending up with a wide flat bottom. I think the wide rim threw me off. So I'm hollowing away, next thing you know I see light coming through the wood on the bottom of the bowl. I nearly parted off the top half!
My solution for that was to turn a shallow groove and fill it with inlace to hide the boo boo. The inlace on the rim was part of the plan from the get go. This seemed to work until I was sanding the outside and saw a little blue streak showing through. Rats.
340803
Anyway, the reason I had so much sanding in the first place is that I had grain tear out to get rid of. End grain tear out has been the bane of my bowl turning journey since its inception. Then today, while turning a replacement for the above boo boo, I had a flash of clarity. Instead of rushing through roughing the shape of the bowl, I thought I'd take some advice and spend some time making practice finishing cuts as I went. Finally got the hang of a super light, tear out free push cut on the outside of the bowl!!!! I was ecstatic lol!
By the time I finished I was covered in whispy little streamers of sugar maple.There are still some light tool marks to contend with, but I'm hoping some work with a NRS will get rid of them. In the last pic you can see the torn grain from the roughing cut, and the nice smooth finish cut below it. I know this is no big deal to most of you guys, since a lot of you are pretty accomplished turners, but it was huge in my basement shop!! Haha
Now on to learning how to get that same no-tear out cut on the inside of the bowl too.
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