edstreet
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This is the euro I did recently, I made something to go with it. It is about 5 1/2" wide and 2 3/4" deep. Not bad overall and this is my first Olive wood bowl and I have one more block to turn. On that one I think I am going to do something radical shape wise.
This is the bowl while it was being turned.
Here we have the faceplate going onto the trunk, yes I turned top to bottom because well Bethlehem Olivewood tends to be small and I made do with what I had. My Supernova G2 chuck on the side with 4" jaws on it and my chisels on the magnet strip: Parting tool, Skew, 8" decimal/fraction/metric digital caliper, Side scraper and Round nose scraper.
Trying to get the most out of the bottom of the bowl, wanted max real estate as I could get out of this blank.
Double chucking! the only way to turn. face plate on one side, chuck on the other. perfect alignment every time.
Old Masters for the win! No petro products in there just pure nut oil and following FDA guidelines/approval.
Starting the core it was very tight to get into the good grain structure with out having the sap wood figure on the walls, I wanted good figure to show like it was smearing down the walls and settling on the bottom. Tail stock gets pushed up to the face plate, revolving center, and I keep it on there as long as possible.
Bowl cored, sanded and after 3rd oiling. I think I nailed that runny look on the walls just fine. Even left some bark on the outside for aesthetics
All total I have about 20 coats of tung oil on there then some Carnauba wax and beeswax.
This is the bowl while it was being turned.
Here we have the faceplate going onto the trunk, yes I turned top to bottom because well Bethlehem Olivewood tends to be small and I made do with what I had. My Supernova G2 chuck on the side with 4" jaws on it and my chisels on the magnet strip: Parting tool, Skew, 8" decimal/fraction/metric digital caliper, Side scraper and Round nose scraper.
Trying to get the most out of the bottom of the bowl, wanted max real estate as I could get out of this blank.
Double chucking! the only way to turn. face plate on one side, chuck on the other. perfect alignment every time.
Old Masters for the win! No petro products in there just pure nut oil and following FDA guidelines/approval.
Starting the core it was very tight to get into the good grain structure with out having the sap wood figure on the walls, I wanted good figure to show like it was smearing down the walls and settling on the bottom. Tail stock gets pushed up to the face plate, revolving center, and I keep it on there as long as possible.
Bowl cored, sanded and after 3rd oiling. I think I nailed that runny look on the walls just fine. Even left some bark on the outside for aesthetics
All total I have about 20 coats of tung oil on there then some Carnauba wax and beeswax.
