woodturned mushrooms

[Nick Waring]

Thanks guys, i enjoyed it. just got to know what to do to the wood to stop it cracking (oil it and leave it to dry?)

 

I dont have the attachment to make goblets mick. would love to give it ago, one day.

 

Good effort indeed Nick.

 

Does the old man still turn anything?

 

 

 

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he never did, he bought it cheap 5-8 years ago, and never used it till now. haha

[Dean Lofthouse]

I've just got in from playing on my lathe, threw the chisels across the workshop, got really niffed trying to hollow out a bowl and it kept grabbing.

 

Tried different chisels, lowering and raising the steady, speeding up, slowing down.

 

In the end it grabbed and threw the bowl I'd just spent an hour on.

 

:mad1::mad1:

[geoff]

I've just got in from playing on my lathe, threw the chisels across the workshop, got really niffed trying to hollow out a bowl and it kept grabbing.

 

Tried different chisels, lowering and raising the steady, speeding up, slowing down.

 

In the end it grabbed and threw the bowl I'd just spent an hour on.

 

:mad1::mad1:

 

Thats a pain in the arse, persevere, you'll get there in the end!

[Ian Leach]

Nick they look cool for first attempt, it is turned green???

 

Dean did you get a bowl gauge (finger nail) ???

[Nick Waring]

Nick they look cool for first attempt, it is turned green???

 

Dean did you get a bowl gauge (finger nail) ???

 

Thanks ian, 2 have been turned green. they had been cut off that day.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Nick they look cool for first attempt, it is turned green???

 

Dean did you get a bowl gauge (finger nail) ???

 

No Ian, been using a medium one, do I need a deep one??

[David oakman]

Nick i have just got the same lathe as you what attachment do i need to turn bowls.

Ian the gonk is a small burr with the pattern of a burr.

[Mesterh]

I've just got in from playing on my lathe, threw the chisels across the workshop, got really niffed trying to hollow out a bowl and it kept grabbing.

 

Thats the spirit old boy, if at first you dont succeed give it up.

 

Or as Homer Simpson would say “If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.”

[geoff]

Try looking here. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz01-BlRIts]YouTube - Woodturning: Getting Started : Woodturning Bowl Gouges[/ame]

[Ian Leach]

Thanks ian, 2 have been turned green. they had been cut off that day.

 

If you put it in a bag with damp shavings and leave for a while that should help dry it out slower, I turned a goblet green and left it over night in morning it was split:sad: Sealing it with bees wax might help too. Microwave helps to but thats not easy.