Thread: Bubinga bowl

Very nice Colin, lovely timber

Clean form and a good finish!

You've only been turning since March? :eek: Nar... pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

Greenie launched.

great shape great bit.

if you did remount it to get the bottem done how did you do it?

where did you get such a big bit.

isn't bubinga from souith america is it grown in Aus?

Please find photo of bottom of bowl with small recess for mounting, got the wood from a specialist timber supplier here in the uk cost £38.00 ($95.00 AU)($71.00 usa), thanks Skew for the compliment but have only been turning since then, but will admit to getting a lot of tuition, hints and tips from an old local turner, infact go round there on a thursday night to be shown something new or just have the crack and talk about wood turning, so possibly wouldnot be as far a head if it were not for his help and advice.

Nice job Colin I like the shape and the finish looks good. I feel sorry for you guys having to buy your blanks though! I'm too much of a tight-ass and gather everything I've got and then trade when possible. Mind you, if I added up the fuel cost's, chainsaws etc etc - you're probably in front!

very nice job.


cheers

the reason Colin has to buy blanks up there is Scotland is quite simple. You see many, many years ago great forests covered the whole of Scotland and through those forests scuttled hairy little Scotsmen in pursuit of other little, hairy Scotsmen. They fought and they fought where ever they were and the winner took awa the losers head and his tackle and brought them back to his village where they would adorn the walls of his hut. Naturally, the sense of smell back in those days was somewhat more different than today's personkind.

Anyway, as time and fights went by, it became apparent the population was dwindling and soon it appeared as though there would be no trophy heads or knackers. There was a great wailing, much greeting and a gnashing of the tooth (only having one tooth per mouth was a sign of great wisdom and dignity, but it made it a reet bugger when it came to traditional gnashing).

And it came to pass that one bright spark came up with the idea of using fake heads. Yet another thought up discs (so they would hang better against the walls of the hut and palisades).

One day whilst a fierce, bewhiskered old warrior was lamenting the days of real haids, he happened to throw his favourite war axe at someone who was balancing a piece of spinning wood on his chin. The wood was spinning so fast that by the time the axe went past it, (to bury itself between the eyes of the twirler - no subtlety in those days), a partial cylinder was turned. Well it stands to reason that it was this very event that was the birth of woodturning and before you know it all the Great Forests had gone lost to savagely competitive woodturning.

Now, all we have left are the symbols of once mighty competitions - bowl turning (the head), spindle turning (the bones for the lesser warriors), cabre tossing (stealing a bit o' spindle turning), and golf (the knackers).

Noo, it's a far, far cry from the days of yore.

They even tried turning bits of gorse and heather but it was just not the same. After all how could you compare a little twiggy piece with a might fir. That is something else that they carried over until today except they call it pen and lace bobbin turning.

Och, we hae fallen a mighty way doon from the heights we once knew.

Originally Posted by tashammer

Och, we hae fallen a mighty way doon from the heights we once knew.

But ye dinnae mention the moosies!

Skew... Hammer.... What Th'----???

Oh, yeah... beautiful bowl... right nice bit o' turnin', Woody from Spean. Awesome piece of wood.
Sideways turnin' needs a heck of a tool rest. What do you have?
Well done.

Originally Posted by Speanwoody

Please find photo of bottom of bowl with small recess for mounting

The bowl looks great but if you are going to do work as large as that the consider getting a larger set of jaws for your chuck. The amount of leverage you would have had near the edge of that bowl I'm surprised it didn't launch itself at you.

will admit to getting a lot of tuition, hints and tips from an old local turner, infact go round there on a thursday night to be shown something new or just have the crack and talk about wood turning, so possibly wouldnot be as far a head if it were not for his help and advice.

It's definitly paying dvivdends! Wish I was as far advanced as you in the same timeframe. Must do something about getting some tuition one day...

Originally Posted by OGYT

Skew... Hammer.... What Th'----???

The history, legends and philosophy are a very important part of woodturning OGYT as you well know. So are the folktales handed doon frae generation ta generation even the ones made up the day before yesterday - those too have been handed doon frae generation ta generation.

The history of woodturning is the history of mankind in his struggle to take summat natural and make something totally different from it.

Long may ye turn and never hae ye a dig-in.

I have only been turning since march of this year and thought I would post a picture of a bubinga bowl I have done, comments please, oh the size of the bowl is 17" across x 2.75" deep

Colin, You have down well, considering you only just started. A damn fine effort. well worth a greenie

I cant say I like your timber costs....:eek:

Xelent work my man!
As usual the old rule of simple forms to bring out the beauty of the timber is well applied.