New turning

[Adam Petersen]

Here's a new turning I did this weekend. It was green wood, don't know the kind since it came out of a pile of logs but is likely ash or maple. I used my new hollower to do the inside and it was so easy. It's about 8" in diameter and 5" high. I finished it with BLO, then dewaxed shellac, then oil-modified, water-based poly. I dyed the inside black. I gave it to my wife to put on her bookshelf at work. She likes the high-gloss finish. I think it turned out pretty good. I had a lot of trouble on the outside with tearout on the endgrain though. I sanded it for a LONG. That was frustrating. Overall though I'm happy with it. I keep turning and keep learning.
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Thanks for looking,

Adam

[Bill Jobe]

Well I was going to post a pic of an OO bowl I turned today, but the competition is fierce, it seems.
Very nice piece, Adam.

[Allan Ferguson]

It does look very nice, does it not?

[daryl moses]

Great job, very nice piece. The black inside really adds to it.

[Doug W Swanson]

Nice looking piece but I especially like the light up wheels on your steady rest :D

[William C Rogers]

Adam. That is a great turning. I know what you mean about tearout. I was having a lot. I watched a lot of videos using the gouge. I am in a turning club and had one of the experienced members show me how to to use the bowl gouge properly. He spent a couple of hours where I learned to "ride the bevel". I still need to practice, but the finish was so smooth and just about no tearout.

Now, that is a cool steady rest. Tell more about that.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work Adam! Can't do any better than creating something that the wife likes!

Question - why did you have tearout on the outside endgrain? What tool were you using to turn the form?

[Aaron Craven]

Nice looking piece but I especially like the light up wheels on your steady rest :D

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that got sidetracked on that :D.

[Adam Petersen]

Well I was going to post a pic of an OO bowl I turned today, but the competition is fierce, it seems.
Very nice piece, Adam.

Thanks Bill. Post yours too, we need to see more work here! What's an OO bowl by the way, I've never heard that before?


It does look very nice, does it not?

Thank you Allan.


Great job, very nice piece. The black inside really adds to it.

Thanks Daryl, I really like the pieces I've seen with black interiors. I think it adds a depth to the final piece, makes it look infinite inside. I think the black dye I used worked well but I'll definitely sanding seal the inside first next time. I started to get bleed through on the bottom which luckily got turned off when I finished the bottom.


Nice looking piece but I especially like the light up wheels on your steady rest :D

Thanks Doug.


Adam. That is a great turning. I know what you mean about tearout. I was having a lot. I watched a lot of videos using the gouge. I am in a turning club and had one of the experienced members show me how to to use the bowl gouge properly. He spent a couple of hours where I learned to "ride the bevel". I still need to practice, but the finish was so smooth and just about no tearout.

Now, that is a cool steady rest. Tell more about that.

Thanks William. I was definitely riding the bevel but I think I was cutting the wrong direction. There's a post on the steady rest a few weeks old now on here. It's based off of Steve Schlumpf's design. It's oak that I painted. I ordered the roller blade wheels and didn't realize they light up but you know what? I kinda like them! LOL.


Nice work Adam! Can't do any better than creating something that the wife likes!

Question - why did you have tearout on the outside endgrain? What tool were you using to turn the form?

Thanks Steve. I don't know why I couldn't beat that end grain. I was using a freshly sharpened bowl gouge (several actually as I tried to win the battle). I tried sheer scraping with them, I tried using my skew as a neg. rake scraper....I think maybe, reading the recent post about tearout, that I was cutting the wrong direction. I was moving large diameter to small diameter, but maybe the way I had it oriented I was cutting uphill and pulling up the fibers. I even put sanding sealer on it to lock the fibers but no avail. It was a fail in that regard, but a learning process so I'm not too frustrated. It's a process right? I'm pretty new at this.

[Brian Brown]

Nice piece Adam. Looks good. I wish I hadn't seen your post, because now I have to go buy some rollerblades with wheels that light up. That is one cool looking steady rest. Color me jealous.

[Bill Jobe]

Osage orange, Adam.

[Adam Petersen]

Thanks Brian!

Ahhhhh yes....osage orange. I really want to see it now. Next time I visit my sister in law in Illinois I'm bringing some of that home with me. They have a row of them along their fence that they hate and would love gone.

[Bill Jobe]

Thanks Brian!
Ahhhhh yes....osage orange. I really want to see it now. Next time I visit my sister in law in Illinois I'm bringing some of that home with me. They have a row of them along their fence that they hate and would love gone.

Easy, Adam. We here in Illinois keep an inventory of our OO.

[Bill Jobe]

Adam, since you seem drawn to OO, here's one from 3 nights ago. This shot brings out subtle nuances such as my signiture that goes into every one of my bowls...hollow ing too deep, striking screws.

[Adam Petersen]

Adam, since you seem drawn to OO, here's one from 3 nights ago. This shot brings out subtle nuances such as my signiture that goes into every one of my bowls...hollow ing too deep, striking screws.

I posted on your other post too but I wanted to say, that is a nice looking bowl. I like the form, the lip and the wood and your finish. That sucks that the screw holes poked through. I do like me some OO.

[Steve Schlumpf]

Thanks Steve. I don't know why I couldn't beat that end grain. I was using a freshly sharpened bowl gouge (several actually as I tried to win the battle). I tried sheer scraping with them, I tried using my skew as a neg. rake scraper....I think maybe, reading the recent post about tearout, that I was cutting the wrong direction. I was moving large diameter to small diameter, but maybe the way I had it oriented I was cutting uphill and pulling up the fibers. I even put sanding sealer on it to lock the fibers but no avail. It was a fail in that regard, but a learning process so I'm not too frustrated. It's a process right? I'm pretty new at this.

Adam,

Anytime you get tearout it is because the wood is not being cut - it is being ripped out. Most times it is caused by cutting in the wrong direction and some times it is by a dull edge or incorrect tool orientation. Easiest way to find out is to change the direction of the cut.

You said you were cutting from the large diameter to the small. Just something to consider, when you rough turn the outside of a bowl with the tenon secured with the tailstock - you cut from the smallest to the largest diameter. Opposite direction will cause tearout and most likely a good sized catch as the gouge self-feeds into the wood.

The key to this whole learning thing is to experiment, ask lots of questions and then find out what works for you! Good luck!

[Jeff Walters]

Beautiful work Adam. What brand hollower are you using?
Jeff

[Adam Petersen]

Beautiful work Adam. What brand hollower are you using?
Jeff

Thanks Jeff. It's a homemade "steel snake" articulated arm hollower. I used a Jordan straight hollower and a Sorby hooker tool in the tool to hollow it.

[Bill Jobe]

Thanks Brian!

Ahhhhh yes....osage orange. I really want to see it now. Next time I visit my sister in law in Illinois I'm bringing some of that home with me. They have a row of them along their fence that they hate and would love gone.

Adam, bring lots of Anchorseal. This stuff likes to crack.

[Jay Mullins]

Nice Hollow form, like others have commented on, the black interrior is a nice touch. Members of my turning club have been using the black a lot lately.

Jay

[Greg Parrish]

Thought I already commented but I really like this one. Didn't realize you could layer those 3 finishes as they all seem so different. Will have to look into that combination myself.

Good job.

[Adam Petersen]

Thanks Jay.

Greg, you can layer finishes as long as they dry and you follow a few certain rules. BLO needs to be dry before you layer on top of it. It pops the colors in the wood and I like the way it looks so I like to put it on first. The de-waxed shellac seals the BLO from the Poly and is needed as a good layer between the poly and BLO. It works very well between laquer and poly, or things like that. It's probably not necessary, but I like the water based poly in the cold months here in SD because I can use it inside without choking everyone. It dries really fast too so I can build it quickly.