chainsaw bowls

[treemeup]

Tried carving a couple of bowls recently. The first two are monkey puzzle, the other two are purple plum after a bout of gandoderma and armilaria, just rough sanded and oiled them quick as ive heard its prone to splitting.

Ive also used the centre of the ring which maybe i shouldnt have but ive got my fingers crossed

[DrewB]

i reckon thats pretty good for chainsaw and light sanding marty, nice one.

[Rob D]

Great work with a chainsaw.... never tried making a bowl before... Plum ones are lovely colours.

 

[treemeup]

Cheers guys!

I've been using a 60 grade flap sanding disc on the angle grinder to lose the chainsaw cuts which works really well, left the back door open yesterday and filled the kitchen with dust, had some unhappy housemates!

I had heard that plum gives some good colours, the compartmentalization walls were green when i was sawing them so hopefully that will come out in the finish.

Ive broken a bone in my foot so off work for a few weeks, here's what i'll be doing in the meantime.......

[Stuart A-C]

This may sound dumb, but how do you scoop the centre out, is it just a case of slowly slowly catchy monkey??? Awsome stuff by the way

[treemeup]

I start with a ring, cut off the bark and any rot then cut down into the wood kinda guessing the distance for a bowl shape, do this a few times in parallel then go the other way(to form a grid) then bore in at an angle or tap at the pieces to remove the waste, once a sort of bowl starts to form use the tip of the bar in a side to side motion to nibble away and smooth (watch out for kicks!)

 

Woke up thismorning and the sap wood on this one had started to crack, been at it for a bit with a grade 40 flap sander so i could get it oiled. hopefully the colour will fade, before the oil the colours were more subtle and varied

And a bit of cherry too.

[Stuart A-C]

I do like, got some nice lumps of oak and beech, think I will have a play.

[Ian Leach]

Very nice:thumbup1: The center of the monkey puzzle is usually quite soft so when the log shrinks it doesn't split as much so be careful with center.

[treemeup]

Very nice:thumbup1: The center of the monkey puzzle is usually quite soft so when the log shrinks it doesn't split as much so be careful with center.

Thanks, I'm enjoying it!

If I remove the pith and fill it in at a later date with a peg would i avoid splitting do you think?

[plippy]

they do look good:thumbup: