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Silky Oak is certainly a beautiful wood....and the bowl is very well done!!

Flindersia australis.

21 x 5 cm.

It's a crotch piece though not much of the figure survived the shaping.

Fairly dense; greasy. Cuts and scrapes well. Excellent finish off the tool.

Finish: n/c sanding sealer, cut back with EEE, then wax.

(Pic 2: it's sitting on a disc to show off the foot. This is the first time I've had enough jaws to find a set that would clamp on the foot just a bit above min contraction; no marks left so no need to clean the foot up. The drawback however is that there wasn't enough space to get a caliper in between the jaws to measure the base thickness at the centre, and it ended up thicker than is desirable.)

Very nice Ern,

Has the Yellow come form the finish, maybe the camera? My SO from your lot is very pale, not gold like that at all. Mine is Pink if anything.

Shannon, the yellow was in the wood, and the finish provided barely any darkening which is what I wanted.

btw, it's Crow's ash, not Silky.

Originally Posted by rsser

Shannon, the yellow was in the wood, and the finish provided barely any darkening which is what I wanted.

btw, it's Crow's ash, not Silky.

- caught too much of Ed's post above. That would explain it then (well at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

Ern, that is a fabulous bit of wood and turning!

Ta Woodwould.

There's something that irritates me about the form. I think it's the way the main outside line pulls in too tightly before the coved rim.

Originally Posted by rsser

There's something that irritates me about the form. I think it's the way the main outside line pulls in too tightly before the coved rim.

Perhaps a larger step between the 'bowl' and the coved rim to better separate and distinguish them?

Yeah, could be.

I think the top end of the body curve should be mirrored by the cove, like an Ogee but with a step.

I know where I went wrong. It was green and rough turned a year ago . To return I shaped the main line and when I retrued the cove there was little step left. So I pulled in the top of the main line to restore the step. Should've redone the main line.

Yeah, I don't like the ogee on the rim.

Instead of terminating the nice, smooth flow of the sides and leading the eye to imagine the curve flowing on smoothly into the void, it's a ski ramp suddenly thrusting the eye off into an uncomfortable direction.

The compound curves are just... too much in too small an area; I reckon a simple bead or flat band would've been better.

Purely my opinion, of course.

You must've brought the sides to a paper-thin thickness (thinness?), 'cos the lip not particularly wide and by the time you take the undercutting of the ogee into account... or perhaps I'm overestimating?

Yeah Andy, I can imagine what you're seeing with the eye being flung out, but persist in thinking (OK, feeling) that a stepped Ogee can be made to work. I reckon there's router bits out there with this form.

No, there's plenty of meat there. Coulda redone the main line.

Pity there's no Control-Z with turnings

Sorry, Ern, I was being a bit "blinkered" and looking solely at the side-view, which is only a small fraction of the whole story and is very, very rarely how the piece is seen in day-to-day life.

In situ, on a benchtop or kitchen counter, with a low form like that one wouldn't really get to see the flow of the sides anyway, so any talk of the eye "following the curve" is just that... talk.

CTRL-Z would be nice, but better still would be CTRL-C, CTRL-X & CTRL-V so when I do an accidental spiral that looks good but is in the wrong place...

Yeah, you're quite right. Side on views of bowls are uncommon. In the 'flesh' this bowl looks OK.

Nonetheless, I'm happy to obssess about form. Only have two bowls I'd be happy to be buried with, to persuade St Peter to let me through the pearly gates on the grounds of having done something good. This one ain't one of them.

Classic Crow's Ash.... I bet it feels heavy.

I don't have time to draw it but I'll have a go at explaining...

I think that the curve in at the top of the main line just below the fillet/V/groove/dent/whatever should have been smaller/sharper/not so gentle.