Thread: Turning a walnut bowl - FAIL!

Very nice, possibly nicer than the original would have been. I really like the horizontal band look.

I concur. You can spend a lot of time fixing up this type of problem that could be better spent on the next bowl.
I have seen a number of techniques for checking the depth of a bowl but I have not been able to get past using a ruler, frequently. My daughter is happy to take the ones with a hole, I ask her to make sure that there is at least one piece of fruit in it! Nice timber BTW. Steve

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Now I am drilling the hole for the worm screw about 30mm deep (screw is 25mm). Then I turn the bottom of the bowl, flip it around and measure how much meat I have to play with now that I have cleaned some thickness off the bottom of the bowl. Then I get my cordless drill and a drill a depth hole which will be suitable. about 1/2" from the absolute bottom which will have the 5mm mortise and about 7mm of meat left over to form the inside base. seems to be working well. I have made a few more bowls since this fail.

Hey great recovery. Very nice outcome.

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I enjoyed watching both videos, looks like you had some fun in the workshop. I have made mental notes on the positioning of the dust extractor hose and the use of the large piece of ply with the sandpaper glued on for flattening the rim. Turned out to be a nice bowl, should hold plenty of jelly beans now!

Alan...

The location of the the dust extraction hose hasn't had much thought put into it. It is just sticky taped to the main line. But it seems to work pretty well. After a day of making more dust than shavings with a dark wood, there isnt much dark crud up my nose. Keeping the hose below face level is ideal.

Originally Posted by Kuffy

I received a few comments on facebook and a phone call about certain things I was doing.
- adjusting the tool rest while the lathe is spinning. It's bad. I know, the gloves I am wearing were brand new yesterday, now they will get into heaven because they are very holy.

Much more of a problem because you have to use a spanner to adjust and lock down the banjo - stay safe.

I have turned a few more bits n pieces and I am trying to force myself to turn the lathe off to adjust the banjo, but mostly I forget until I burn a new hole in my gloves. It is annoying because the push start/stop buttons are kinda buggy so turning the lathe off means having to mess around turning it back on. Takes me 6 or 7 trys before I get the thing to stay on! I have to press the top right corner of the start button so it works without immediately clicking off.

Originally Posted by Kuffy

I have turned a few more bits n pieces and I am trying to force myself to turn the lathe off to adjust the banjo, but mostly I forget until I burn a new hole in my gloves. It is annoying because the push start/stop buttons are kinda buggy so turning the lathe off means having to mess around turning it back on. Takes me 6 or 7 trys before I get the thing to stay on! I have to press the top right corner of the start button so it works without immediately clicking off.

Please do yourself a big favour and fix the stop / start buttons, sort out the banjo, and loose the glove.

LA LA LA LA

Your tales are starting to sound like a very real recipie for DANGER. I don't think I want to read any more on this thread as I fear the next one will be the glove got caught on the blank and ripped my finger or half my hand off or smashed my wrist into the tool rest.

Sorry not being negative - but this really is unsafe!!!

You need one of these extremely over engineered pieces of equipment that every turner should have

Lol, I have several of those. They are all flat-packed at the moment, requiring final assembly.

Hahahaha ��

Kuffy, here is a Walnut bowl without a fancy bottom . . . you may recognise the character in the wood, since it's the blank that I acquired from you

Walnut 02.jpgWalnut 01.jpg

Cool. Nice work Pat. Yours look much better than mine. It also looks much deeper compared to what I am ending up with, because I tend to shave a bunch of material from the bottom AND the top.

What did you finish that with? Perhaps it is the lighting or photography but it appears to be a lighter brown colour than my bowls which are sanding sealer/EEE/shellawax.