Bowl Turning Video - Traditional vs Modern

Tom -

That was totally cool! Thanks.

Is the leg powered lathe an early Nova or OneWay model? :-)

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There’s a lesson here.

It’s substance over style the way I see it. <g>

P.S good one Tom.

BOB

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Poolewood I think. :)

It’s pretty neat. He can only cut when the turn is anti-clockwise…he has to back out when it unwinds. It’s pretty cool, but with the left leg this guy must have, he’s gotta be walking in circles when he’s in open field.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Tom -

Your knowlege amazes me! Very cool link. Thanks!

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Lots of fun. Some real skill there.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

Tom;

That was pretty amazing!

Great comment about the open field. I guess the faster he walks, the tighter the circles, huh??

Lee

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That was wild… but I’m not going to show that one to my wife…

must save a bunch of money though – not buying a lathe, or having to go to the gym.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Vincent Van Gogh

that is awesome!!!

it’s also interesting that the older of the two uses the new-fangled electric contraption and the younger of the two uses the muscle-powered V-5 (that would be 5 toes) machine.

Very cool indeed.

maybe he changes legs when he switches the bowl to the other side.. getting both legs the same workout..

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great vid – I’ll never show that to my wife..she already gave me the evil eye when the lathe showed up in the shop last week. After seeing this vid she would want me to use hand saws instead of chain saw to cut trees down.. forget about a making me use a foot powered lathe <laugh>

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

Well thanks for the comments everyone, I just followed all the links back from my video page to find this forum have already had a fun look around. If you enjoyed the previous video you might enjoy these.

We just added a couple of new videos on youtube of a commission I had to turn a bowl for Robin Hood from oak from Sherwood Forest, on a foot powered lathe of course.

Here’s the short fun version of Robin collecting his bowl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7TIvkUZvps

and the slightly longer version with more on the making of the bowl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3RZ2ltC8Ps

welcome to the LJ Shop Robin.
wonderful videos. (love the motorcycle ending .. made me chuckle)

It is FASCINATING to watch you work. Who needs electricity!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Welcome aboard Robin.
You are the essence of the word -Bodger.
Can you find us plan for the foot lathe that you would recommend?
Also can you reverse the bowl direction by reversing the pulley?
Obviously yes but can you turn in both directions?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Cool one, Tom!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Hi Folks sorry for the slow reply. Thanks for the nice comments. Bob there are plans for lathes on the website of the association of pole lathe turners www.bodgers.org.uk
“You are the essence of the word -Bodger.” I actulaly really dislike this word and the increasing use of it. i don’t know if it has the negative “botcher” ie badly done job conotation in the US but it does here. Bodger as applied to woodturning is a modern word with no great history (first recorded early 20th century) it only applied to a few dozen chair leg turners around high wycombe. The word was popularised by Mike Abbotts excellent book “green woodwork” and mike found that in the early days calling himself a bodger helped get press coverage he now feels it has a negative effect. Bowl turners were never ever called bodgers.
Can you tell i have had that rant before….sorry.
Also can you reverse the bowl direction by reversing the pulley?
yes simply wind the strap the other way but its rarely easier to cut with the wood turning away.
Obviously yes but can you turn in both directions? indeed there is only power as you press the treadle try to cut on the return stroke and everything just stops.
just posted a video of my other work…making a bridge from a single tree here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-jH-e2nD3WQ

simply amazing. The bridge itself is a treasure. Thank you for sharing the video.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thanks for the update, Robin.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Thanks for sharing this Tom.

I had a chance to try a pole lathe back in 1979 at the Ozark Folk Center, Arkansas. It was fun.

I want to also thank Robin for the bridge video.

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