my first bowl turnings

Great looking bowls! Now you are hooked! Once you get started on turnings they will get the most attention in your shop. ( boy, mine is) haha

Your next steps will keep getting fancier and fancier. Try new techniques and shapes. You will be amazed at how versatile a lathe is.

Looking forward to seeing many more projects.

Scrappy

-- Scrap Wood's the best...the projects are smaller, and so is the mess!

don’t know about it, scrappy… maybe later, when I gain confidence. for one thing, my lathe is far from being good. i think the bearings are worn, so it shakes a bit. I also had a very limited set of tools (but I have invested in a good quality bowl gauge and it made a huge difference). all this made for a very unwelcoming environment. its getting better, though. just have to get a new lathe

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

fantastic especially with limited tools/equipment.

a bowl might be my next experiment.. well, a platter actually.. I want to make a platter

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

You can do it Deb. Nice turning Moshel, beautiful grain, is it fruitwood, apple or nut? Nice work.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

I think its Elm. The bigger one might be walnut, but its relatively light so must be Elm as well.

MsDebbie – really, if I can do it, ANYONE can do it :-)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

very nice , moshel .

and a classic reason for
getting a new tool ,

” my bearings are loose ” !

she’s been waiting for you
to admit this for years .

recovery is eminent !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Oh, I am the first one to admit this!!

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

great job, , as i’m fining out it cost a bunch to get started turning out bowls.

-- Joe, Ga

money just goes into this like its a black hole….
you get a lathe, you buy a turning set. you find that your lathe is not good enough and that your tools are bad. you buy a better set of tools. you find that they do not include bowl gauge. you buy bowl gauge. ok, now you find that you need to sharpen it in a very weird way, and there is a thingie for this. and then you need a nova chuck, and worm screw, and vacuum chuck. and next you will find that you need the funny looking tool for hollowing narrow hollow forms. and the list goes on and on….

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Well done I agree with the above comments ,but in the end is all fun you will see

-- peruturner,lima peru

I am saving up for my lathe and tools and hope to produce bowls as nice as yours.
Well done!

-- Eric

word of advice, from someone who made all the mistakes:
don’t get a huge lathe. they take lots of space and you don’t gain that much from them, at least not at first, and smaller lathes are easier to sell second hand and don’t lose much in value. variable speed is very nice. check with your local woodturning clubs – they sometimes have very good prices for good quality lathes.
you need a good bowl gauge – there is no way around it. HSS steel, long handle and neck. the other tools can be of slightly lower quality. you only need in addition roughing tool, skew and parting tool.
make or get a vacuum or cole chuck before you make your first bowl. it is very irritating to turn the bowl and then to be unable to finish it and you tend to do stupid things (I remove the spigot with japanese saw. really not a great way)

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Look super

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I will stick to boards.
I will leave the fancy looking stuff to you,
Good start.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

A very nice start. Keep up the good work.

-- Whether You Think You Can or You Think You Can't, YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

Nice work Moshel. You can actually do a lot without fancy accessories. A couple of faceplates and homemade wooden chucks, etc. work just as well and put a lot less strain on your lathe bearings due to lighter weight. Anyway, I’m glad you are getting hooked on turning and hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

-- Mike, American in Norway

stefang, i have tried going the faceplate route, but I had hard time with it and its also very hard to make boxes this way. as for doing the bottom, i guess the cheapest/simplest way is to make a vacuum chuck, but it still requires some hard to get bearings, etc and its noisy… is there another kind of chuck that can be made at home?

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...