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  1. 13th July 2005, 10:47 AM #1
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    Default Silver Carved Oak Bowl

    This was hand carved from Silver Oak - Desert Oak. I suppose I could have used a router but did it by hand. Silver Oak is really quite resinous and it quickly clogs sandpaper. I have found that the carving and sanding etc can be quite theraputical and am quite enjoying it, probably not everybodys cup of tea though. I havn't yet finished the finishing. I'll apply a few more coats of oil then burnish with EEE.

    Photographed with a Nikon D100, 60mm F2.8 Macro lens at F32 under Elinchrom Studio lights on a black perspex background. Just a rush job, I like to catalogue my pieces for later reference.


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    I am really liking your postings with pictures of the carved bowls that you make. They are a little different and show creativity and imagination. Keep em coming! Incidentally, do you sell them anywhere or are they gifts?

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    Another nice original design, Peter. Good move to catalogue everything, too.
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    I like that one, real nice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dan_tom
    I am really liking your postings with pictures of the carved bowls that you make. They are a little different and show creativity and imagination. Keep em coming! Incidentally, do you sell them anywhere or are they gifts?

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    Hello Dan,

    I'm selling them privately and also to a local gallery. The carved pieces have been selling really well. The last carved pieces I took in to the gallery only lasted a week on the shelves, possibly too cheap.


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    Very Nice.. I love thw way the RAYS run through the bowl.
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    Peter.still unable to give you a greeny.
    any thing with the beads yet ?
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    Bloody stunning work Peter!!!!!!
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    That is lovely. Best bowl I have ever seen!


    When you say you could have done the carving with a router how would one go about this given the cylindrical shape of the bowl and its external convex shape?
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    Certainly a stunning unique piece.

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    I love your work. Another great piece.

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    Very nice work Pete.
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    very nice bowl, care to share what tools you use to carve.
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    Spectacular bowl Peter . Carving the flutes in the sides has helped to show the rays in the timber more effectively . Was the base attached separately or did you carve the flutes down to it ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by chinchye
    very nice bowl, care to share what tools you use to carve.

    Chinchye,

    I useda Microplane rasp to shape the flutes then hand sanded the final shape - from about 80 to about a 1000 grit. The actual tehnique was really very simple, just a bit time consuming- especially the sanding but I think it's important part of the process. I've applied several coats of oil and will burnish (with a swansdown mop) with EEE after the oil has well and truely "set".

    Peter,

    The bowl is a single piece.


    PhilMcCrackin,

    Phil, there are some router (trimmer) setups that have a depth stop that allows the router to be drawn along a platform, that fits into the tool rest, to follow the shape of the curve. Use of the lathe's indexing system ensures even spacing between cuts.The piece below was done using such a system. The owner of the gallery that I took this bowl to didn't like the idea of the machined look, so I did this one by hand to please him. The hand carved version has slight imperfections in the flutes whereas the machined version should be very "symetrical". I don't know if I totally agree with him (the gallery owner) as I think that it would still take a skillfull operator to machine a nice piece.


    I thought I'd post a pic of a work in progress,a carved African Mahogany Bowl. The flutes/swirls are inside and out, I cannot wait to finish this as it seems to be taking forever. I guess that it's all new to me and I have to work out faster ways to do things like this more efficiently. I'm using a Arbourtech mini-grinder and finally after doing half the swirls I was able to almost fully shape the swirl with the grinder - saved a whole lot of time in the final shaping.

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