Kuffy
9th April 2017, 10:42 PM
I had nothing to do today except for applying a coat of danish oil on a hall table I am currently building and that only takes an hour or so. To fill in the rest of this miserable Melbourne day, I grabbed a pretty awful turning blank that I had glued up from scraps a while ago made with highly figured redgum, myrtle and blackwood. It was a pain in the butt to turn because of the diameter vs height at ~115mm diameter x 95mm high. I found myself with the bowl gouge hanging a mile out from the tool rest while trying to smooth out the inside bottom of the bowl. I got there in the end but was constantly concerned that I would break the gouge at the ferrule while my face was directly over the ferrule so that I could see inside the bowl, faceshield or not I didn't like my chances of walking away scar free if things went bad.
Somehow after turning the outside of the bowl with a recess for mounting, when I reversed the bowl in the chuck it was no where close to running true. I must have done something funny with the recess, so I put it back on the worm screw and made the recess a little larger and this time when I reversed it in the chuck it ran pretty true.
images aren't uploading, so I will upload them later. you can check the moovie if interested @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjxq5DgCRI
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Somehow after turning the outside of the bowl with a recess for mounting, when I reversed the bowl in the chuck it was no where close to running true. I must have done something funny with the recess, so I put it back on the worm screw and made the recess a little larger and this time when I reversed it in the chuck it ran pretty true.
images aren't uploading, so I will upload them later. you can check the moovie if interested @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjxq5DgCRI
410052410053410054
Photos are uploaded now.