Summer's over, thought I'd give something big a try. This is going to be interesting!
That's a great looking bowl, David.Felt good to turn a piece of green wood last night. Walnut crotch, turn the mating side today and then finish the bottom of some second turned bowls.
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Felt good to turn a piece of green wood last night. Walnut crotch, turn the mating side today and then finish the bottom of some second turned bowls.
Thank you and Mother Nature 😂That's a great looking bowl, David.
I hope the mating side is just as niceAwesome grain and figure there! Very nice!
Making hearts even when you don’t intend to!Turned the mating walnut crotch today, just a tad smaller and almost has a heart shape.
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and almost has a heart shape
I have done the same thing in the past and made a couple natural edge heart bowls. For some reason I didn’t even think about it for this one. Thanks for sharing!You control the heart shape by how much of the vee in the Y of the crotch is inside the circle of the blank.
Here are few slides I show in demos on layout
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I use a disc which a diameter on it. Position the blank on the disc so the vee is in the blank
Set blocks with a corner on the diameter and the center of the bowl opening is between the block corners
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I drill a center hole for the spur drive then use the disc to cut the blan round
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If one upper part of the Y is smaller you get sort of a mitten shape.
All the slides
Like that leg shape!
Hahah!Channeled my inner @Alan Weinberg. I really liked the look of the coins, so gave it an attempt with the LatheEngraver. I just used a couple of pieces of stock I already had to cut the coins, so not a lot of thought went into the color contrast. One side was spaced better than the other. To do all the pocketing for both sides took 1 hour, 12 minutes. There were two cuts done for each pocket. The first actual made the pocket in the bowl. The coins were glued in, and then a second run was done to remove most of the material to make room for the next coin.
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