A favourite bowl

I can see why you regretted parting with this bowl. It is quite beautiful.

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Yup, that would have been a keeper. Nice bowl, Stewart!

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knarly … really knarly , I like it !

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What an interesting bowl Stewart!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Maybe you’ll get it back in the will.

Great bowl Stewart.

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Lovely. Bet you had your elbows tucked in while this was spinning. Thanks for sharing it.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Stewart another nice piece for your hands. I don’t think that I would have ever parted with it.

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it’s like it was embedded in a tree and you discovered it!

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This probably sounds uneducated to some but how did you cut the inside of the bowl? Did you use a lathe? I just learned about the CA trick. I am always happily amased at how much I do not know.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Yeah, Stewart, how’d ya do that? It is really neat. I just can’t see it on a lathe. Do tell.

-- Thos. Angle

That torch trick can produce some really stunning effects. I did just that one time to a blonde gunstock. Produced a zebra stripe effect that still looks great.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Karson – That’s a thought; I’ll start dropping some hints!

Snowdog and Thomas – As to the HOW of it… When I bought the burr / burl, it already had a flattish top surface, but the knobbly side was, well, knobbly. So I formed a small flat base on the belt sander. I mounted the piece on a screw chuck attached to that newly formed base, the screw chuck being simply a large woodscrew set into a special mount that attached to the lathe headstock. Then, at slow speed on account of the imbalance, the rest is reasonably normal bowlturning + 110% concentration.

Again, it may be my Yorkshire genes, but I don’t like to see expensive wood in the form of shavings around my boots, so I often do ‘chunky’ turnings!

Douglas – The following picture shows the little blighter that caused much blood, pain and suffering when I was distracted for a split second by an interesting piece on the radio – but it was fingers rather than elbows… I’ll never make it as a world class harpist now. <grin>

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Beautiful!

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I like it.

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

Very nice. Anytime it has the feel of real wood I just cant pass up a second look. Great job.

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Stewart, I love the light bowl. Can I swipe your design? (I really like the burl, too)

Swipe away rikkor! Just watch those digits!

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Yah, looks lethal.

Very nice.

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