So y'all have read my inquiry about turning rough Cherry burl to maximize the figure. Thanks for all the advice, I actually followed some of it 
I had a piece that had been chained sawed flat(ish) on both sides. So I decided to pull the largest core out of it that I could to miss the voids and most of the bark. I got about a 6½" diameter blank after bandsawing it -
I started to mount it in my usual method with a Woodworm screw into what would be the top of the bowl. But due to the angle of the chain sawed face it didn't chuck up straight. So I remembered some advice given and used my spur center to drive it, which allowed me to angle the piece so I could get the most out of it -
It ran pretty true so I started to rough out the outside into a true cylinder and started to shape it into a bowl -
Due to turning this between centers I was unable to remove the tail stock. So I couldn't use my preferred recess chucking method so I had to turn a tenon. I did this with my parting tool -
Once I had the tenon turned I finished shaped the outside, sanded and slathered on the BLO -
I used a handsaw to remove the little nub left where the live center was and reversed in into my chuck, ready to hollow out the inside -
I forgot to take a picture of the hollowing process, but take my word for it shavings were flying.
Once I got the inside gone and the rim trued up, I reversed it again and chucked it in my Cole jaws so I could turn off the mangled tenon (the main reason I like a recess) -
A little more BLO and some paste wax and here she is. I'm not very happy with the form it's too tall (4½") for it's diameter (5½") but I worked with what I had. The wall thickness could have been thinner, it's about ¼", but it started to go oval on me as soon as I had the bulk of the inside hollowed out. And I wasn't 100% sure that the tenon chucking would hold if I tried to go thinner.
And for you "bowl bottom checkers" a baby smooth bottom -
The burl figure is amazing, I am so glad that I turned it with the bark to the bottom and took away most of the normal trunk section. I can get lost in the figure in this bowl. I am sure my pics don't do it justice.
I am now a bigger burl fan than before. On this piece my usual nemiss...end grain tear-out, didn't even poke it's ugly head out, because there is no real end grain in burl.
Thanks for looking!
Dave
I had a piece that had been chained sawed flat(ish) on both sides. So I decided to pull the largest core out of it that I could to miss the voids and most of the bark. I got about a 6½" diameter blank after bandsawing it -
I started to mount it in my usual method with a Woodworm screw into what would be the top of the bowl. But due to the angle of the chain sawed face it didn't chuck up straight. So I remembered some advice given and used my spur center to drive it, which allowed me to angle the piece so I could get the most out of it -
It ran pretty true so I started to rough out the outside into a true cylinder and started to shape it into a bowl -
Due to turning this between centers I was unable to remove the tail stock. So I couldn't use my preferred recess chucking method so I had to turn a tenon. I did this with my parting tool -
Once I had the tenon turned I finished shaped the outside, sanded and slathered on the BLO -
I used a handsaw to remove the little nub left where the live center was and reversed in into my chuck, ready to hollow out the inside -
I forgot to take a picture of the hollowing process, but take my word for it shavings were flying.
Once I got the inside gone and the rim trued up, I reversed it again and chucked it in my Cole jaws so I could turn off the mangled tenon (the main reason I like a recess) -
A little more BLO and some paste wax and here she is. I'm not very happy with the form it's too tall (4½") for it's diameter (5½") but I worked with what I had. The wall thickness could have been thinner, it's about ¼", but it started to go oval on me as soon as I had the bulk of the inside hollowed out. And I wasn't 100% sure that the tenon chucking would hold if I tried to go thinner.
And for you "bowl bottom checkers" a baby smooth bottom -
The burl figure is amazing, I am so glad that I turned it with the bark to the bottom and took away most of the normal trunk section. I can get lost in the figure in this bowl. I am sure my pics don't do it justice.
I am now a bigger burl fan than before. On this piece my usual nemiss...end grain tear-out, didn't even poke it's ugly head out, because there is no real end grain in burl.
Thanks for looking!
Dave
