Dick
2nd August 2005, 12:17 PM
Hello everyone, here is my first post now that I have something to show.
Last month I bought myself a retirement present, a Nova DVR. I started with a Jet Mini and then got an old 12" Delta/Rockwell with one speed and thought it was time for a change.:D
Well I was feeling better yesterday so I dugout this box elder log half and made a blank. This is the first really Big bowl I have ever tried as it started out at 14-1/2". It finished at 13-1/2" x 5" and 1/2" thick.
This is some of the first box elder from last October that I recieved from a friend and it was pretty much bone dry already so I didn't need to soak it DNA. I turned it yesterday and sanded and finished it today. I used Tung Oil and Bees Wax for the finish.
Now I see what a fellow turner Jim Ketron was talking about sanding big bowls, wow my hands and wrists hurt from sanding all day . I always had a hard time with box elder tearing out anyways, but without a steady rest for this lathe, the tear-out was terrible on the outer edges. Way to much sanding for my likes.
I need to get the Kelton video on coring because this bowl would have been bigger if I knew how to core correctly. I was almost done with coring the inside of it when it snapped the tenon on the bowl. So to make a new tenon, it made the finished bowl smaller. But I am happy with it and so is my wife Mickey.
Thanks for looking
Last month I bought myself a retirement present, a Nova DVR. I started with a Jet Mini and then got an old 12" Delta/Rockwell with one speed and thought it was time for a change.:D
Well I was feeling better yesterday so I dugout this box elder log half and made a blank. This is the first really Big bowl I have ever tried as it started out at 14-1/2". It finished at 13-1/2" x 5" and 1/2" thick.
This is some of the first box elder from last October that I recieved from a friend and it was pretty much bone dry already so I didn't need to soak it DNA. I turned it yesterday and sanded and finished it today. I used Tung Oil and Bees Wax for the finish.
Now I see what a fellow turner Jim Ketron was talking about sanding big bowls, wow my hands and wrists hurt from sanding all day . I always had a hard time with box elder tearing out anyways, but without a steady rest for this lathe, the tear-out was terrible on the outer edges. Way to much sanding for my likes.
I need to get the Kelton video on coring because this bowl would have been bigger if I knew how to core correctly. I was almost done with coring the inside of it when it snapped the tenon on the bowl. So to make a new tenon, it made the finished bowl smaller. But I am happy with it and so is my wife Mickey.
Thanks for looking