Before and After - My first Bowl

Nice!

-- - Jei, Rockford IL - When in doubt, spray it with WD-40 and wrap it with duct tape. The details will attend to themselves.

Looks like a great start to me, I wont show my first pieces. LOL

-- Carpenter assembles with hands, Designer builds with brains, Artist creates with heart!

Joe, that looks great. The rings of grain, glowing finish & all. Hope you don’t raid the wood pile too much, it’s getting cold lately. I have some Maple & poplar here if you want some to try.

-- $tudie

Studie, are you going to go to the next sps woodturners meeting on the 17th of Dec? You can bring me a couple of chunks of wood if you have them to spare, I’d like to try something different.

Thanks Dan and Jei’son. I’m hoping for any feedback, tips or ideas how I can do this better and I might as well get it over with on the first piece, at least it didn’t turn out in pieces. Thanks to the kind folks at http://www.spswoodturners.org for teaching me how to sharpen turning tools.

-- JoeR Nothing that I could make will ever be perfect but I'll use it anyway.

Fantastic job Joe. Love the grain in that old growth wood. Great finish also.

When you removed it from the glue block, did you finish cut the bottom? I use a flat board that I have cut several grooves into for different diam. Then put the tail stock up against it to hold it on. Turn the bottom with VERY light cuts. Helps to give the bowl a more professinal look even though you don’t (me either) have a chuck to use. Just an idea I have used. I have an old craftsman and no chuck also.

Keep up the great work.

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

nice wood work :)

very nice.

if you turn the bowl clockwise a bit does the grain in the centre spell “obi” ?

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

It actually looks like 0BI. Nice catch, I missed that. Is it an omen? Or just the old wood trying to tell me something.

-- JoeR Nothing that I could make will ever be perfect but I'll use it anyway.

“may the force be with you” :)

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

I believe the force has been with me for a while now. I still have all my fingers, both eyes, the hearing is going a little, and the hat is beyond help. I survived a triple by-pass on my heart a little over two years ago. It’s the force, a guardian angel or God still has a purpose for me being here. I am really one happy guy that’s really enjoying retirement, doing what I really love to do.

At the moment I’m typing this, I have my shop cat sleeping on my shoulders, a good fire in the wood stove and sunshine streaming through the two big skylights so that I can see what I’m doing without turning the lights on. It really is nice having a shop computer. Life just doesn’t get much better than this!

-- JoeR Nothing that I could make will ever be perfect but I'll use it anyway.

yup—you definitely have the force :)

Life is GOOD ! :)
OH yah.

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