I have been splitting & planing some red oak – but not at any joinery stage with it yet. In the meantime, I have been turning some bowls from the sycamore tree that I gathered some material from recently…
turning sycamore bowl
Here is a detail of the hook working the inside of the bowl. For someone used to turning furniture parts, it was quite a revelation that the action happens BELOW the centers! Here’s a link to a photo of the hooks http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/bowl-hooks-i-use/
cutting the inside
I always tell folks I am not a bowl-turner; but a joiner who sometimes turns a few bowls. It’s great fun, I have been using it as a warm-up exercise in the morning, then doing bench work afterwards… A few of the bowls. These will dry in the shavings until they stabilize. By then they will be distorted; just the way I like them.
For a real bowlturner, so see Robin Wood’s stuff. http://www.robin-wood.co.uk/
April 1, 2012 at 11:24 pm
How do you make your leg go all invisible like that?
April 2, 2012 at 11:53 am
Peter’s leg left with the treadle, kind of like the dish running away with the spoon.
April 2, 2012 at 6:22 pm
Interesting that you turn “left-handed”, especially since you seem to do most other things right-handed. Any particular reason?
April 3, 2012 at 12:00 pm
That is pretty cool. I have always been interested in pole lathes. One day I would like to build one.