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Thread: THe bowl that held up a veranda
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5th August 2013, 08:51 PM #1
THe bowl that held up a veranda
I thought it better to start a new thread. The bowl pictured below was turned from a bowl blank cut about 15 years ago, so it is well cured. The blank was one of the blocks used under the jack while I replaced the stumps under the house and veranda that had to be replaced too, so I can claim that the veranda was held up with a bowl. It is a piece of mango cut from an old tree on a mango farm. It measures 240mm diameter and 90mm deep. There is some interesting grain patterns on one side. Another interesting feature is that the is absolutely no glue any where ti be found.
Ok so now I have supported my argument that bowl turning is real turning.
Jim
Mango bowl 003S.jpg Mango bowl 004S.jpg Mango bowl 001S.jpgSometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important...
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5th August 2013, 09:30 PM #2
Just to be sure I don't miss 's response
Tonight, live on stage, 'Powderpost' Jim - unglued!!!
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5th August 2013, 09:45 PM #3
jim
who made that you can only turn things that have been glued together not one solid piece
regards Michaelenjoy life we are only here a short time not a long time
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5th August 2013, 09:49 PM #4Senior Member
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nice bowl well turned
Ian
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5th August 2013, 10:18 PM #5
Jim didn't you post this some time ago ??
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Well Sir, by your own admission, 'twas not the bowl that held up the verandah but a piece of timber that was solid at the time.
Had you not elected to deem or, yea, decree that this solid piece of timber was going to be a bowl (it had no choice by the sound of it) then it could well have ended up as a box, numerous finials or knobs.
Real turning by the way.
Just for the nay sayer on our western border.
Real turning holding up fruit. This is a no go for Mango zone here.
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A close up:
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Of course to prove a point that even small bits of real turning can hold their own.
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5th August 2013, 10:47 PM #7
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5th August 2013, 11:01 PM #8
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5th August 2013, 11:41 PM #9
I spat my cup of tea out reading this!!
Oh Jim nice work on the draw handles in the kitchen to
oh how I got so use to the orange stringDANGER!!!!I'm Dyslexic Spelling may offend!!!!!
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6th August 2013, 12:13 AM #10Retired
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Sir, I refer to your opening statement that this was a blank, ergo not a bowl but a piece of wood.
Until your ministrations with chisel and sandpaper it was a block of wood.
Therefore your argument that a bowl held up your verandah does not hold water (or mangoes?), furthermore you stated that you used blockS.
Had you used a stout piece of timber of the linear grained stuff (that real turners use) you could have saved a lot of timber and possibly time as well. This would also have given you real turning stuff.
Our western friend came as a witness for you so I thought I should not preclude him. Not a diversionary tactic.
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I now seek an adjournment until the morrow.
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6th August 2013, 04:19 AM #12Retired
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Perhaps, to add to the claim, you could pierce the bowl with fifty thousand holes, to make it a delicate and flimsy filigree, a whimsical thing as light as air.
Like the smallest pebble in an emperors shoe once stopped an army.
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I have carefully considered all the evidence presented to date, and, as the self appointed adjudicator on this inspiring debate, I declare the quarter time score to be:
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Jim 5
: sorry mate you will just have to try harder.
Jim: thanks for that bottle of red you send down.
I consider it a gift and it will in no way influence my deliberations.
OK Gentlemen
Round 2 please.
Cheers
TimSome days I turns thisaway, somedays I turns thataway and other days I don't give a stuff so I don't turn at all.
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I've been wondering when the voice from the west would put his bib in.
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6th August 2013, 10:37 AM #15
Whose apple is that ? I didn't think you let fruit into the shed?
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