Thread: thin vase/hollowform

I had another go at a hollow-form on the weekend. Inspired by some of torchwood's recent posts, where he has taken a bit of wood that looked to my eye unusable, I used a waste bit of silky oak branch that was split halfway along, had an angle chainsaw cut at the broad end and only just avoided the scrap heap.

This is what I came up with. It's 26cm high, and 6.5cm across the top. During the turning, it managed to come off the lathe twice as I started the hollowing (it didn't help that I had to start the turning on the angle head, so most of the time I was trying to hollow air), but switching from the gouge to the hollowmaster fixed that - as did tightening the chuck sufficiently . No dings, because I didn't like the outside I had turned, so I reshaped them out anyway.