| Project by YorkshireStewart | posted 375 days ago | 306 views | 0 times favorited | 19 comments | ![]() |
In many ways, It was hard to part with this bowl, but we know it’s gone to a good home. I just re-discovered the pictures & I’d forgotten how much I liked it. However, I’m sure the recipients, our in-laws, enjoy it just as much. We ‘visited it’ the other day and it’s being well looked after! The wood blank was quite soft – approaching rotten – in parts & I needed to apply CA superglue in places to firm it up. I blackened the rim with a blowlamp / blowtorch.
-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.
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19 comments so far
Kerux
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posted 375 days ago
I can see why you regretted parting with this bowl. It is quite beautiful.
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mot
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posted 375 days ago
Yup, that would have been a keeper. Nice bowl, Stewart!
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DAN
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posted 375 days ago
knarly … really knarly , I like it !
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Dorje
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posted 375 days ago
What an interesting bowl Stewart!
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
Karson
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posted 375 days ago
Maybe you’ll get it back in the will.
Great bowl Stewart.
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 375 days ago
Lovely. Bet you had your elbows tucked in while this was spinning. Thanks for sharing it.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
cajunpen
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posted 374 days ago
Stewart another nice piece for your hands. I don’t think that I would have ever parted with it.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
MsDebbieP
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posted 374 days ago
it’s like it was embedded in a tree and you discovered it!
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snowdog
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posted 374 days ago
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"..
Thos. Angle
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posted 374 days ago
Yeah, Stewart, how’d ya do that? It is really neat. I just can’t see it on a lathe. Do tell.
-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon
Dadoo
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posted 374 days ago
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!
YorkshireStewart
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posted 374 days ago
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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dennis mitchell
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posted 374 days ago
Beautiful!
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Grumpy
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posted 374 days ago
I like it.
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TreeBones
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posted 373 days ago
Very nice. Anytime it has the feel of real wood I just cant pass up a second look. Great job.
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rikkor
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posted 373 days ago
Stewart, I love the light bowl. Can I swipe your design? (I really like the burl, too)
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YorkshireStewart
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posted 373 days ago
Swipe away rikkor! Just watch those digits!
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rikkor
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posted 373 days ago
Yah, looks lethal.
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Jason Christenson
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posted 368 days ago
Very nice.
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