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Great work Joe, that hollowing tool did a good job. Have you tried the microwave method for seasoning wood?.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Thanks Grumpy. I have not tried the microwave. I like the simplicity of Trent’s method. Turn it thin and air dry. This piece was dry in a couple of days. It was so wet it was spitting juice when I turned it.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Pretty soon you are going to figure out how to make one of these with no opening at all. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice Work, Joe! When you say “thin”, how thin? I am interested in why it doesn’t crack.

Nice work, it looks great

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Very good nice piece Joe, very good turn

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Another nice piece Joe, care to share the microwave method Grumpy, never heard of it.

-- DocK, WV

Joe, this is a beautiful turning. I love the grain in the cherry. Until I read the dimensions, I was thinking this looks just like the knob from a Lie-Nielsen plane.

Great job!

Which hollowing set did you get 3/4 or 5/8, or both?

-- Martin, Kansas

I purchased the 5/8” Martin. The handle is awesome. I also picked up the carving stand. I love the idea of carving turnings.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Really interesting design but a lovely bowl, Well done.

Woody.

-- Woody, UK

Joe

Nice piece. I have some more of that Cherry if you are interested. I also have the big Kobra up and running. When you come up to try the Kobra bring your Bosch set so I can play with it.

Terry

Nice job on the finish. You must be a glutton for punishment. I think end grain cherry is about the hardest thing to finish, since it will get all blotchy if you don’t sand them for infinity…

How did you measure the thickness across the undercut top and the flat bottom? I am alway interested in other folks devices for measuring wall thickness, since I think it’s the hardest part of hollow turning?

And to answer LEW’s question above, turning the wood thin does two things:

1.) as you cut it, the centripetal force causes the moisture to migrate out of the wood. As trifern mentions, the wood was letting of juice as he turned it. If you turn thin enough, the piece will essentially be dry when you take it off of the lathe.

2.) as you cut it, the wood is also releasing tension to come to a state of equilibrium with the surrounding environment. any tensile forces are reduced as the thickness is reduced. Simply put, there isn’t enough tension left to overcome the strentgh of the materials, so it doesn’t crack.

-- Steven

Very cool Joe, Love the shape, who sell Trents hollowing tools? Or does he sell them himself.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

This piece is SO beautiful !!! The finish looks perfect as well , Joe : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .

Thanks for all the kind remarks. I really appreciate them all.

Steven, I use a piece of bent wire to measure wall thickness.

Mike, I purchased the tools directly from Trent. If you follow the link above, he sells them on his web page.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

Didn’t the Birds write a song for you? Turn, turn, turn, turn …........ lol Great work as usual!

-- ??? My mistakes heat the house. It's very warm in here. ???

when i first looked at the thumbnails, I thought you’d turned a handle for a bench plane, love the cherry!

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

I think with all this turned work Joe we will have to nickname you Triturn. LOL

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

It is hard to keep up with all of your work. Beautiful.

-- Michael A. Brailsford