14" Dovetail Bowl From a Board

[W.Y.]

Just looged in here to show my latest turning that I started yesterday and finished this morning. .

Got the tutorial for making it from the series of Videos by Bob Hamilton in the Videos Tutorials board in my own site.


Got a foot turned and got three coats of lacquer on it. After it is cured I will will rub it down with steel wool lubricated with paste wax to cut the gloss back a little.
It was quite an experience for my first of this kind. I have some slight misalignments of a couple rings. Pretty tricky getting those aligned. Also flattening the rings was a bit of a challenge with just rubbing them on sandpaper on the table top . That is a case where either a V sander or a drum sander would be wonderful for leveling the rings prior to gluing.

 

[Pioneerpens]

Wow, Looks great!

 

[Woodlvr]

Very nice work. I would like to see a picture of what it looked like before you statred turning it.

 

[W.Y.]

To save a lot of explaining,

Here is the series of nine videos for that bowl from a board from start to finish by Bob Hamilton who shares all his videos in my site.

Grab a coffee and sit back and enjoy. I must warn you that his videos are long but quite thorough .

http://wmyoung.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=turningvideos&action=display&thread=8762

 

[Woodlvr]

Thank you for the link. I will watch the video and see how it is done.

 

[arjudy]

Quite unique. I like it. Seems like someone on this site used to make pens with the dove tail joint incorporated into the design.

 

[Rangertrek]

Great bowl. Like the dovetails. Cant even imagine how to start working on one of those.

 

[fernhills]

Fantastic, i really enjoyed the video. I can understand the amount time and thought that went into that piece. I will have to try something like it. Thanks for sharing. Carl