Thread: Playing with my Bowl Saver

Very nice looking mate looks like a heaps of fun to

Ian

Yep, mixed my threads up . Pens in wood turning general and bowls in with the pens

Chooks for a month as a penance.

Originally Posted by

Chooks for a month as a penance.

I will add two uppercuts to my punishment and make a point not to post two threads at the same time again

Corbs,
which specie of bowl saver do you use. I am uncertain of which way to go. I have tried 2. Drillit.

Originally Posted by corbs

I've had a bowl saver for a while now and decided to have a play with it for the first time today. I used a piece of Elm which I salvaged from the local Police station a few months ago.

I got the alignment right on the first cut but think I set it too shallow on the second. The three blanks are now sitting in a plastic bag filled with shavings and in six months or so I will finish them off.

I stalled the lathe a few times on the first cut but upped the speed and that seemed to help a lot.


Corbs

Corbs
I noticed you have no handle on your bowlsaver. Are you using it like this or do you have a removable handle ?Also the butt end of your large cutter should be level with the edge of the rotating platform .The way you have it, in some situations,it will hit the blank near the end of the cut.
Ted

Originally Posted by Drillit

Corbs,
which specie of bowl saver do you use. I am uncertain of which way to go. I have tried 2. Drillit.

Drillit, I've got a woodcut bowl saver. I've still got a bit to learn with it but I think we're going to be friends

Originally Posted by turnerted

Corbs
I noticed you have no handle on your bowlsaver. Are you using it like this or do you have a removable handle ?Also the butt end of your large cutter should be level with the edge of the rotating platform .The way you have it, in some situations,it will hit the blank near the end of the cut.
Ted

Thanks Ted, the bowl saver now has a nice custom made Jarrah handle but I used it without a handle in the pics. Thanks for the tip on the large cutter alignment as well. It was set up for the big cutter for the first cut which turned out to be too big so I quickly switched it. I will be more aware of the positioning when I pull it out next

nice and well done! wish I had one!

Good to see the Woodcut getting a workout, Corbs.

Starting to pay for itself already...

I found with a lower powered lathe (1.5HP) that faster works better. Also. Steven Russell's “Fluid-Pulsed” method helps, see Step 2 near bottom of this page.

Originally Posted by

Chooks for a month as a penance.

Are you an ex Jack as well?
Willy

I think this will be my next addition to the bowl saver. I've seen one used with it and the set up is much quicker and efficient. It looks pretty simple so will try and make something up in the shed before I go spending $100 plus postage. I don't see any reason why I couldn't put something together which will do the same thing for less than half the price.

Andrew the advantage of the laser is you can pre plan your cuts before making a mess of everything.

You can also optimise the amount of bowls out of the one peice.

Corbs
Have a look at my posting 20/4/12 "a simple laser guide for the woodcut bowlsaver"
Ted