Yoshino cherry hollow form

Different angles

Glad it held together, glad ur safe. Do u have pic of ur process, did u Hollow before turning the outside?

Charlie Knighton said:

Glad it held together, glad ur safe. Do u have pic of ur process, did u Hollow before turning the outside?

Click to expand...

I didn’t capture the process, but I approached this piece like a standard hollow form: Established the shape of the form first, hollowed, then used a jam chuck to turn it around and finish the bottom.

For hollowing, I like to use cupped carbide cutters to remove most of the material, then switch to the John Jordan hss cutters for the finishing cuts. As it started getting thin, I kept the tool sharp and took light cuts with the lathe at ~1200 rpm. I sanded the outside while it was on the lathe, then hand sanded the inside off the lathe.

Stunning!

Should not have problem with shavings buildup inside hf

There’s as much “not bowl” as there is “bowl.” Great job keeping it together.

That must have been a nail bitter! Nice! Even the inside looks sanded.

Nice one, Jaramiah. Given the size, how did you even get your fingers in there to sand? Do you have a magical tool that we all should have?!? 😇

Tom Gall said:

Nice one, Jaramiah. Given the size, how did you even get your fingers in there to sand? Do you have a magical tool that we all should have?!? 😇

Click to expand...

Thanks, Tom! No secret tools to share, unfortunately. Just folded a 2” sanding disc in half and used my finger to move it around inside the form. Took me a while, but was kind of relaxing to be honest.

A real knee knocker Jaramiah!! This is above my pay grade!!