At every market event I do I get asked over and over to describe how I turn a natural edge bowl. I try to hold up a bowl and show how the tree grain runs, how I spin it and turn it, etc. It's a hard thing to visualize until you've actually seen it done. I can tell by the look on most faces that they still don't understand. I'm thinking of making a small model to show the stages. Some small pieces - first one a simple blank of a log cut in half, the next with the bottom of the bowl rounded off and a tenon on the bottom, the next with the inside hollowed out. Put them in line on maybe a spinning rod so they can see how they turn, etc. Anyone ever seen or done something like this?
