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    Default 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.

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    Just to be sure I don't miss 's response

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    jim
    who made that you can only turn things that have been glued together not one solid piece
    regards Michael
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    nice bowl well turned

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by wheelinround View Post
    Jim didn't you post this some time ago ??
    No Ray, if you check you will find that one is similar but different. This one was turned yesterday.
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    Quote Originally Posted by View Post
    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. But Sir, not true, it was still a bowl but was concealed with surplus timber, not unlike a bowl drying in a bed of shavings.

    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. Pre-determination was not part of the original debate,

    Real turning by the way. This is still not proven...

    Just for the nay sayer on our western border. Inadmissable diversion tactic.

    Real turning holding up fruit. This is a no go for Mango zone here. But the comment was IN not on. and the bowl was made from a mango tree.
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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. on not IN.

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    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 string
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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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    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:

    4
    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.

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    I've been wondering when the voice from the west would put his bib in.

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    Whose apple is that ? I didn't think you let fruit into the shed?
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