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 https://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/
PETER FOLLANSBEE: JOINER’S NOTES 
How do you make your leg go all invisible like that?
Peter’s leg left with the treadle, kind of like the dish running away with the spoon.
Interesting that you turn “left-handed”, especially since you seem to do most other things right-handed. Any particular reason?
That is pretty cool. I have always been interested in pole lathes. One day I would like to build one.