Thread: Bowl Making Made Easy!!

Ed, I saw this video already a time ago, and felt in sleep.
I don't think you like it to turn bowls that way, isn't it.
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Here is the web site / catalog for the bowls:

http://www.hollandbowlmill.com/

I sure would not want to make bowls there, but I do like the machine that gets a bunch of bowls out of one piece of timber. I know of one system that runs a curved cutter between two steel pegs. The system on a pivot looks more positive and less likely to bind.

Paul

Originally Posted by Ad de Crom

Ed, I saw this video already a time ago, and felt in sleep.
I don't think you like it to turn bowls that way, isn't it.
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In all likelyhood.....no

Nice one Ed,but as you say a little boring....like to see em do a hollow vessel


mass produced bowls for our throw away society....sorta a new angle on planned obsolescence.

So true , but , if it awakens folk to the beauty and practicality of wooden utensils , bowls included , it may lead them to wanting a more individual , size , type , style , etc .

The only way to get that is to turn them by hand eh
we give 'em uniqueness

Holy crap... did you see him mount the blank on the lathe. A bowl a minute is a lot of bowls in a day.

Fasinating....

I wonder what that gear cost to set up & just how many wooden bowls you would have to produce at what price to break even factoring in the cost of the logs & the wages.

I like the way they save timber bit it does not look like fun.

Originally Posted by corbs

Holy crap... did you see him mount the blank on the lathe. A bowl a minute is a lot of bowls in a day.

Welcome to production work.

But they talk on the video like they are making art. I think their words are "turning is a lost art. And then going on like they are doing this lost art. Called them "exquisite bowls" too. I think that is going a bit far. What does one call a REALLY exquisite bowl now?

They look to me to be tourist souvenir stock .
No different to the 'Maori carvings ' made onmultiple spindle carving machines , and then sanded , hand incised , and spray painted

The tourists are conned into thinking that they are hand carved in NZ .
Who knows where they get produced

Wow, fascinating.

doesn't look like fun to me
and exquisite bowl - be buggered
trouble with the mass produced stuff is that it lowers the value (in the mind of the public) of the really nice hand done work

I saw something like this on the telly a while back. And there are some systems available to DIYers; Kelton and McNaughton come to mind, and maybe OneWay I think. Although they relieve some of the tedium of hollowing, they only make spherical bowls AFAICT. Non-spherical, e.g. with wings or natural edge, will always be unique and secure higher prices and admiration.

Joe