bowl turning thread

[muttley9050]

Nice thread, loving the quaich.

[Ian Leach]

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[bobh]

Love that laced up goblet, what wood is it and what did you use for lacing? Leather thing I'm guessing.

[Ian Leach]

The wood is plum and the lace is sweet chestnut bark, peeled then cut into thin strips and soaked in water and threaded through. Once dry it's nice and solid.

[se7enthdevil]

The wood is plum and the lace is sweet chestnut bark, peeled then cut into thin strips and soaked in water and threaded through. Once dry it's nice and solid.

 

thats a clever trick...

[Pete Hart]

With Christmas coming up I thought I had best make something for my brother. A recent post on another forum gave me the idea of making him a quaich.

A bit of head scratching followed as I'd not done one before, I think it turned out OK.

 

Mounted the blank on a screw chuck and turned the recess

 

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Mounted it on the chuck and turned back to the handles

 

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Hollowed out and shaped the handle ring

 

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Sanded to 400 and a coat of food safe applied

 

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Next I marked out the handles and carefully cut off the excess

 

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The result, would never have got this clean cut if I hadn't bought the tuffsaw blades recommended by mutley

 

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LOTS of sanding later and I'm reasonably happy with the result

 

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Now that is brilliant bobh. You've inspired me!!!

 

 

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[Pete Hart]

A few more

 

Love the salad bowl and servers, the yew goblet is a beauty too!

 

 

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[bobh]

Bottom section cherry, top walnut.

Finish is not quite there, buffing mops should turn up tomorrow so will give them a try on this using microcrystalline wax.

In the photos it looks like the curve is wrong just below the join, can't really see on the actual pot, looks a lot worse in the photos.

 

 

[se7enthdevil]

heres just a couple of small bowls i made from a timber called wenge (pronounced wen-gay) which is from africa and is very hard but gives great results.

 

 

heres the blank first then the resulting bowl.

[se7enthdevil]

and another.