Wip

[rsser]

Outside of the 3rd bowl on the new lathe.

So many things went wrong with this but the figure's too good to have given up.

I've been cutting feet with a parting tool but that can leave a deal of tear-out. As posted, I've got good results using a skew as a scraper to clean this up, but on this stuff it made it worse.

So I recut the foot vertical section with a detail gouge and then shear scraped with its wing heading away from the corner. Much betterer

This time I sized the foot to fit into a chuck in clamp mode that shouldn't leave marks. Getting sick of mounting a piece 3 times, and with small feet a recess mount has limitations (design, bowl flex).

[artme]

That's some great looking timber Ern!!


Tell us again: What lathe is that?

[BozInOz]

Can't really see the tear out. Frustrating though.

[rsser]

Arthur, it's a grilled, not battered, VL175 ;-}

BoI, the pic was taken after completing the outside.

The wood was both soft and brittle if that makes sense so a prime candidate for tear-out. It could easily have been sanded away but where's the fun in that?

[Ed Reiss]

hmmmmm...not the color of Box Elder that I'm used to here in the states, Ern.

Have you dyed it the golden yellow?

[rsser]

An artefact of the lighting/dig cam Ed.

This was from a bunch of crotch pieces: mainly cream, some yellowy brown patches, and the odd red stripe which disappeared during rough-out drying.

[Ed Reiss]

[Gil Jones]

Hey Ern,
Nice bowl.
Gil

[NeilS]

Ern, any chance of a picy of the bowl in profile?

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[rsser]

Sure; haven't had a chance to hollow it out yet.

Have acquired a light tent and daylight fluoro spots in the hope of improving the standard of photography!

Thanks Gil.

[NeilS]

Sure; haven't had a chance to hollow it out yet.

Have acquired a light tent and daylight fluoro spots in the hope of improving the standard of photography!

No rush, whenever convenient.

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[rsser]

Here it is.

I found it impossible to record the colours accurately despite all the gear. Too cool and contrasty. Oh well. May try a different lens later on.

The Box Elder (pics 1 & 2) is about 150mm across and in profile is sitting on a plastic stand. One of the failures early on was a catch on the foot while I was creeping close to it with a tear drop scraper in shear mode. So the foot was turned away and another formed. That meant the initial gentle ogee form had to give way to something not as nice. The new foot was a little narrower and had to be mounted in diff jaws so the piece needs remounting and cleaning up. ATM I'm sick of the thing.

The other bowl is no. 2 off the VL, Camphor Laurel, 30cm x 6cm. Finish was DO then wax but I didn't let the oil sit for long enough to go off and it's dulled the wax on the inside of the bowl. It was recess mounted so it can be redone.

Apologies for the speck.

[artme]

Nice work Ern!!!

Great profile and a nice thin wall.

Timber looks a bit like Camphor.

[letzzzgo]

Both bowls look great ... love the figure!

Cheers, John

[efgee88]

Nice bowls/platters.

But really Ern, how dare you present the speck to us forumites!

I am affronted - it is surely the mother of all specks........ Have you given it a name, by the way?


Something to be said for fixed lens digital camera systems after all.

Cheers,

FrankG