Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
Ive watched this thread for awhile and it has peaked my interest. I want to buy my wife a hand turned bowl somewhere. I think she would cherish it.
Wood Turning
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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Beautiful!!! I'll trade you a TreeHouse tee for one! 
Porkbrick
TreeHouser
Stig, im curious about your finishing process. how do you go about re-chucking the bowl between coats? im assuming that you've finished the foot before applying the first coat. vacuum chuck?
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
? I never really thought about it. Small? Medium?
No, I leave the recess or tap for mounting it in the bottom.
Then I finish the interior and all the exterior except for the bottom of the "Foot".
Once the bowl is all done and the finish has hardened, I'll remount it using a vacuum chuck or a set of jumbo jaws and finish the foot, then give that the same number of steel wool/ oil treatments as the rest of the bowl. I don't want it to be possible to see how the bowl was mounted for turning.
Sometimes the "foot" is turned as a separate part, then the bowl is also finished in to stages.
Here is an example in Black locust burl:
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That has been my bowl turning chuck for the last 20 years. GREAT grip and appears to be indestructible.
I have turned literally 1000s of bowls on mine and it still works.
BlackSmith
Uncivil
very good work, great skills...
Ax-Man
Don't make me chop you
I agree 100%
Porkbrick
TreeHouser
thanks Stig. that is more or less the process i have been using for cleaning up the foot/finishing, but without the vacuum chuck.
I only use vacuum when I do serial work, which I don't do any more.
When one finishes dozens of salad bowls for whole sale in one go, it is a great timesaver.
Not worth setting up for doing one bowl, I lent my set-up to an English turner a couple of years ago, doubt I'll ever ask to have it back.
Thanks for the compliments, I've simply been turning high volume for a lot of years, eventually you get it right or quit.
I did both, I guess.
You get fast as well, doing lots of production work
A small bowl like the one shown, takes me about 45 minutes to do, including 3 finishes. But only if I do a bunch at a time.
Done singly, maybe 1½ hrs.
Black locust burl is fantastic to turn, but very, very brittle. When you go thin like that, too much vibration can shatter the bowl.
I did a demo with a japanese woodturner years ago, and made a bowl just like this one, except when I was finishing the rim, I had a minuscule catch and the whole thing blew up and went into orbit. I still get ribbed about that a lot
When one finishes dozens of salad bowls for whole sale in one go, it is a great timesaver.
Not worth setting up for doing one bowl, I lent my set-up to an English turner a couple of years ago, doubt I'll ever ask to have it back.
Thanks for the compliments, I've simply been turning high volume for a lot of years, eventually you get it right or quit.
I did both, I guess.
You get fast as well, doing lots of production work
A small bowl like the one shown, takes me about 45 minutes to do, including 3 finishes. But only if I do a bunch at a time.
Done singly, maybe 1½ hrs.
Black locust burl is fantastic to turn, but very, very brittle. When you go thin like that, too much vibration can shatter the bowl.
I did a demo with a japanese woodturner years ago, and made a bowl just like this one, except when I was finishing the rim, I had a minuscule catch and the whole thing blew up and went into orbit. I still get ribbed about that a lot
Very interesting guys. Here is the latest project that I did. It's a cookie jar from an Elm tree that I removed. I donated it to a scholarship charity from my old high school and this picture is from the silent auction. I used a face plate on it. Turned the inside of the lid on the end then parted it off, gouged out the inside and then put the lid on the jar and used it like a jam chuck to finish the top of the lid.
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MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Nice!
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Steve, that looks nice, did someone purchase it?
Bodean
Cali dreamer
My favorite thread to lurk in.
So much information.
Beautiful work.
Stig, that walnut burl bowl. Wow.
I'm now looking on craigslist for a lathe to start on.
The TH rocks.
So much information.
Beautiful work.
Stig, that walnut burl bowl. Wow.
I'm now looking on craigslist for a lathe to start on.
The TH rocks.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I concur!!!
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
That was really cool Steve.. 
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Nice!!!
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Pro!
BlackSmith
Uncivil
Gotta have respect for a man with those skills.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
Those are mighty clean hands for a logger.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
And stunning work by the way.
