This was to be a thread on the little lathe that could, but it turned into the big turner who couldn't :BangHead::BangHead:
A while back I got a big gnarly Cedar stump from Jeff, just itching to be turned into something of beauty. Today I got the gumption and the right amount of coffee in me to give it a spin. I ripped the stump up into several bowl blanks with my chainsaw, and decided to try out the most promising one.
I roughed it out on the bandsaw and mounted it on my HF lathe -
I turned it round with out too much trouble except I couldn't go above the lowest speed on my lathe without it taking a hike.
When turning a big ugly bowl blank, use a big ugly stick. Insert stealth X-Mas gloat here...a 1/2" Pro PM bowl gouge :-D:-D:-D -
I got the outer shaped turned and sanded and got ready to chuck it into a recess. I noticed this surface checking and that should have been a premonition of things to come...but I didn't listen to the wood :eusa_doh:
Flipped and chucked and ready to be gouged out :-D
Cutting out the inside was going well with my new gouge. It can handle more than my lathe can
Shortly after I took this last pic, I had a catch on a big ol' branch knot and tore the bowl off the chuck messin' up my recess. Time to part of the bad section and give it a try with a glue block in hopes to finish turning this one -
While the epoxy was curing on the glue block I decided to spin out another smaller bowl.
As I was nearing the end I heard that tell-tale "Tick Tick" and realized that it was cracking. What the heck, a little CA and I'll try to take this thing as thin as I can go.
Due to the crack, I did a half-arsed job of sanding and didn't finish it. I planned to cut it in half and see how uniform my walls were.
Before I sliced it in half I decided to show it to my wife, as it had one of the best bottoms I've ever turned. She liked and won't let me autopsy it. Now I have to finish it and give it to her. That's why I couldn't make any money in this hobby, either it ain't fit to sell or my wife likes it anyways and wants to keep it :lol::lol::lol:
Thanks for looking.
Dave
A while back I got a big gnarly Cedar stump from Jeff, just itching to be turned into something of beauty. Today I got the gumption and the right amount of coffee in me to give it a spin. I ripped the stump up into several bowl blanks with my chainsaw, and decided to try out the most promising one.
I roughed it out on the bandsaw and mounted it on my HF lathe -
I turned it round with out too much trouble except I couldn't go above the lowest speed on my lathe without it taking a hike.
When turning a big ugly bowl blank, use a big ugly stick. Insert stealth X-Mas gloat here...a 1/2" Pro PM bowl gouge :-D:-D:-D -
I got the outer shaped turned and sanded and got ready to chuck it into a recess. I noticed this surface checking and that should have been a premonition of things to come...but I didn't listen to the wood :eusa_doh:
Flipped and chucked and ready to be gouged out :-D
Cutting out the inside was going well with my new gouge. It can handle more than my lathe can
Shortly after I took this last pic, I had a catch on a big ol' branch knot and tore the bowl off the chuck messin' up my recess. Time to part of the bad section and give it a try with a glue block in hopes to finish turning this one -
While the epoxy was curing on the glue block I decided to spin out another smaller bowl.
As I was nearing the end I heard that tell-tale "Tick Tick" and realized that it was cracking. What the heck, a little CA and I'll try to take this thing as thin as I can go.
Due to the crack, I did a half-arsed job of sanding and didn't finish it. I planned to cut it in half and see how uniform my walls were.
Before I sliced it in half I decided to show it to my wife, as it had one of the best bottoms I've ever turned. She liked and won't let me autopsy it. Now I have to finish it and give it to her. That's why I couldn't make any money in this hobby, either it ain't fit to sell or my wife likes it anyways and wants to keep it :lol::lol::lol:
Thanks for looking.
Dave
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