First attempts at a hollow form

[John Hicks]

I tried my hand at hollowing using the trent bosch stabilizer. Somewhat rough inside and very hard to get the top with the standard curved tool. They are about 8 inches deep and probably the max for the 5/8 in bars. Lots of bouncing and rattling, but good enough for gifts! The top hole is about 1 1/4, they are both spalted and burl big leaf maple.

 

[Roger Wiegand]

Those look pretty darn nice! If they are your first efforts, watch out David Ellsworth.

 

[hockenbery]

Great looking pieces.
Like the one on the right much more than the other.
The curve continues nicely into the foot. Looks like it floating.

 

[William Rogers]

John you can be proud of those. Eventually you will get better at hollowing and yes 8” with a 5/8” bar is deep.

 

[Dave Landers]

I have found, with Trent's tools, that to get the inside top (with a form similar to yours), I can't use the regular hollowing tools. The bent tools just won't get around the corner. So I hollow as much as I can with those, then switch to one of his bent radius scrapers. I can adjust the scraper tip so it will cut around the corner. Makes a better finish, too.

I ground the scraper tip for my 1/2" tool to about half its original size, so it will fit in a vessel with a smaller hole. Also replaced the screw with one with a smaller head, also so it'd fit in a smaller hole.

 

[Bobby Smith]

Those are sweeet!

 

[Dean Center]

8" is a LONG way over the tool rest. It's supposed to be hard and have a fair learning curve. Just make the hole smaller than an index finger and it won't matter how smooth they are inside.

 

[Russell Nugent]

Yep. And if they're to rough inside, well a finial and cap always looks nice.

 

[Randy Anderson]

Nice first pieces. I've just started myself. I have the DWay tool and 6" is about the max I'm able to reach.

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

I tried my hand at hollowing using the trent bosch stabilizer. Somewhat rough inside and very hard to get the top with the standard curved tool. They are about 8 inches deep and probably the max for the 5/8 in bars. Lots of bouncing and rattling, but good enough for gifts! The top hole is about 1 1/4, they are both spalted and burl big leaf maple.

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Nice work. When I first got my Jamieson Hollowing system, I called Lyle because the cutter wasn't cutting at all. He asked me several questions. Then he goes, this is a long shot, but do you have your lathe in reverse? I had finished the day before sanding in reverse. I was so embarrassed, LOL

 

[john lucas]

Nice pieces. That flattened top is difficult but do I have the tool for you. The new Hunter Talon. You can't use it in your hollowiing system but it's so stable and easy to use by hand. It's perfect for getting that first 2" or so under the neck of a vessel. Mike said they should be on the market in January. This thing has a flat area on the shank about 1 1/4" wide ( I really need to measure it) The flat area is about 6" long and has a square tang. I rounded it over slightly so it would fit in my Thompson handle. The cutter is mounted at a downward tilt so it does not catch. I hollowed the the area under the neck on my Ruth Bader Ginsburg vessel with it before changing to my captured bar system.

 

[Doug Freeman]

I also have attempted to use my Jamieson system with the lathe running in reverse. I use a hand held straight bar diy tool to open up a vessel as a 1st step, and run the lathe in reverse so I don’t have to lean over the ways. I then forget to switch it back to normal rotation. 1st time I did it it took me an hour or so to figure out the problem - after changing the carbide insert and moving the tip around.

i also have a couple of diy hand held bent arm tools as well as a 1/2” bent arm that fits the Jamieson system to reach the areas John Lucas shows.

 

[hockenbery]

The cutter is mounted at a downward tilt so it does not catch. I hollowed the the area under the neck on my Ruth Bader Ginsburg vessel with it before changing to my captured bar system

What is the cutter size?

Looks like a tool for everyone’s tool kit.
Should be a good tool for ornament balls. The flat bar should stabilize it for the neophytes and the cutter in line with the shaft won’t have much torque on the tool to begin with.

Your RBG vessel not much of a test. - that long sweet curve at the top is so far from a flat top that It looks like it could be hollowed entirely with a straight tool.
I like the Vessel...

 

[Mark Jundanian]

@john lucas , the RBG vessel is very clever and well done.

 

[Lamar Wright]

Very nice indeed John, well done!

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Great looking pieces.
Like the one on the right much more than the other.
The curve continues nicely into the foot. Looks like it floating.

I agree and I think it would also help to round the top so it isn't so flat, which will get you closer to the golden rule.

 

[john lucas]

The RGB vessel was just what I had handy. Havent had time to try it on a vessel.with a more flat top. Iiiiill be gone until.after Christmas but will try to shoot some photos with a ruler for scale. It's too big for christmas ornaments unless you like a really large sphere. In the first photo of my imitation hollow vessel it's about 6" across if that will give you some size relationship.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

@hockenbery Hunter has a set of small tools that are very useful for ornaments. They cut so gently that IMHO they can be used unhandled.

 

[Breck Whitworth]

Great job . Better than my first. I love my Trent Bosh hollowing system it makes hollowing so much easier than an old system I bought many years ago. I love the one on the right. Wow you go for the win doing your first hollowing with burl.

 

[John Hicks]

There were several so far that ended up as kindling. Punky burl mostly.

 

[john lucas]

More photos of the talon tool so you can better understand it's size and what it's capable of doing. I was wrong on the size of the shank. It's 1/2" thick and 1" wide. Very stable on the tool rest. I hope to make a vessel that will use it's capabilities in the next week or so. Have to repair some chairs that were chewed up by my dog first.