Made a small candy dish last night.
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Nice work.
Great work Doug. I think you've found your new calling.
Finished another one last night.
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Love it. Want one.
I had a compass, but without a map, it's just a cool toy to show you where oceans and ice are.
Got a couple more done today since I had to stay home with my son.
This one checked more than I expected, but I was able to turn it albeit very carefully.
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This one was going to be a salad bowl, but I ran into rot so this is what I ended up with. Has one clean side though.
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Clean side
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They look great to me.
Yeah I just hate the cracking. I had to use epoxy to fill some that went all the way through. Still fun to make I spose.
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Such a beautiful glow.Originally Posted by doug1980
Why do I live in Alaska? Because I can.
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Pretty snazzy, Doug. You do some nice work.
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Very nice work!Reminds me of my grandfathers woodworking skills.
Great looking bowls. Heart rot on birch is always a nasty surprise.
On the oils, Poppy oil and Canola oil are what we mostly use for dining/kitchen products like bowls and cutting boards.
Alternatively you can always apply 3-5 coats of oil with 6h intervals and then put 3-7 coats of beeswax on it with 1h intervals making sure you wipe any extra of before applying a new layer. Give the last layer a good polish and your bowls will shine. (You might want to consider at least 2000grit sanding on the stuff you want to shine; both before and after the first oiling, but not after waxing.
Survival is not about surviving AGAINST the nature. It's about surviving WITH the nature.
You can't go in to nature, nature is not a place or an object. Nature just is. You are living it.
This is the first I've seen of this thread Doug, very nice work. Some of those bowls have really nice grain and patterns.
Thank you everyone. I just finished this bowl tonight. Well I still have to flip it on the lathe and cut the tennon off. It's special to me because it was the first bowl I ever turned. I roughed it out several months ago and set it aside to dry (the long way.) I put it in a cardboard box and covered it with wood shavings. A very slow technique for drying bowls, but dries it more gradually so it doesn't check as much. It's my favorite.
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Last edited by doug1980; 04-08-2011 at 03:21 AM.
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That's awesome Doug. I can see why you seem to be hooked. Your very first project is beautiful and professionally done. I look back at some of my firsts, and it's a wonder why I stuck with it.
That's an heirloom piece if you ask me. Something you hand down to the kids and their kids and so on. That's beautiful.
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Amazing Doug. So, does the Knife company give you a pattern that you have to follow, or do you just make it the way you want?
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He provides the blanks in varying sizes and species, I just have to turn it out. Those bowls are made to be used with an Ulu, so the inside must match the arc of the Ulu. Other than that I can make it as plain or as fancy as I want. I am going to be doing some segmented bowls for him soon. Those will be very pretty bowls.
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Absolutely fantastic work.
Quick question please, how do you attach the bowl to the lathe?
Several different methods. When I first mount the blank I screw on a faceplate.
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After the outside of the bowl is shaped and I've made my tennon, I flip the piece over and mount it to my chuck.
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I can then hollow out the inside. Then it gets removed and dried. After that I do the finally shaping, sanding and finishing then I have to remove the tennon. For that I mount the bowl to my jumbo jaws.
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I can then remove the tennon and sand the bottom.
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