artful bodger
21st June 2019, 07:09 PM
I have a stack of blackwood blanks that were rough turned last year and have started re-turning them. Starting from the smallest and gradually working my way up.
Here are the first 12.
Four of the twelve have got the same basic shape. I have tried to get a nice crisp curve on the outside then turn the inside with an even wall thickness. With no indents or slight nipples on the centre in the bottom, just one nice flowing curve and finish it off with a half radius on the lip. I wont go into the dimensions of each individual bowl other than to say out of the twelve the largest diameter is 335mm, smallest dia 240mm and the heights vary between 60-95mm.
These first 4 have the half radius lip.
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Top views more or less. This view shows the lip shape better,hopefully. 456630
Group shot of those type.
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The other eight of the twelve have got a shape that is my favourite shape. I like to think of it as my own signature shape but not sure on that, someone else might have invented that shape before me. Hard to be original in wood turning.
In profile it looks something like this. A convex and concave curve that meets at a crisp transition point between top and bottom view.
456631 Another view of the same bowl. 456632
You can see there is a definite angle between the outside and inside faces compered to the previous radius lipped bowls which I reckon is a good thing as it helps to give a better grip on the bowls when handling them. Well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it for now. If there is a downside to this shape it would be that the volume the finished bowl holds is slightly lessened. Anyway, enough of my design manifesto. Next eight pictures are the ones with this shape. All the bowls have had 2 coats of 30% gloss (in other words nearly matt) single pac spray lacquer.
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And finally a group shot of them all. If you have not all gone to sleep already, it is a bit of an overdose of blackwood bowls. Must say I am looking forward to getting stuck into the larger ones that are still waiting to be turned. Cheers and thanks for looking.
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Here are the first 12.
Four of the twelve have got the same basic shape. I have tried to get a nice crisp curve on the outside then turn the inside with an even wall thickness. With no indents or slight nipples on the centre in the bottom, just one nice flowing curve and finish it off with a half radius on the lip. I wont go into the dimensions of each individual bowl other than to say out of the twelve the largest diameter is 335mm, smallest dia 240mm and the heights vary between 60-95mm.
These first 4 have the half radius lip.
456625456626 456627456628
Top views more or less. This view shows the lip shape better,hopefully. 456630
Group shot of those type.
456629
The other eight of the twelve have got a shape that is my favourite shape. I like to think of it as my own signature shape but not sure on that, someone else might have invented that shape before me. Hard to be original in wood turning.
In profile it looks something like this. A convex and concave curve that meets at a crisp transition point between top and bottom view.
456631 Another view of the same bowl. 456632
You can see there is a definite angle between the outside and inside faces compered to the previous radius lipped bowls which I reckon is a good thing as it helps to give a better grip on the bowls when handling them. Well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it for now. If there is a downside to this shape it would be that the volume the finished bowl holds is slightly lessened. Anyway, enough of my design manifesto. Next eight pictures are the ones with this shape. All the bowls have had 2 coats of 30% gloss (in other words nearly matt) single pac spray lacquer.
456633 456634 456635
456636 456643456640
456645 456646
And finally a group shot of them all. If you have not all gone to sleep already, it is a bit of an overdose of blackwood bowls. Must say I am looking forward to getting stuck into the larger ones that are still waiting to be turned. Cheers and thanks for looking.
456647