A Wasted Wood Bowl

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I call it a wasted wood bowl because it is not pretty at all and because of the waste of wood hollowing it out from a turning blank that cost me more than I could ever sell the bowl for . It is just a little six and a half inch bowl . It was fun though and great for ones that have access to free wood.
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The wood is Rock Maple . The blank looked nice on the outside but then we never know what is inside before hollowing it out and this one was a disappointment to me .

I'll go back to making RM bowls that don't accumulate that much waste in about 50 of them put together and they have attractive designs and colorings that makes them easy sellers for a good price .
 
F Y I and to save me some typing here is one of the replies about that bowl on my own site and my reply to him .





Post by William Young on 20 minutes ago

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about an hour ago hawaiilad said:
Bill, I think you are correct...might just have a couple small bowls in those shavings if it were a flat board



Just a couple ? ? ? ?


That blank was 4" thick . I should have sliced it into four 1" boards on the band saw and made a set of four matching bowls all the same diameter as that lathe turned one with thinner walls and more useful room inside all of them . . Would have created a handful or two of shavings .


These are times that I am so glad I got my Ringmaster . I looked at mister RM on the other side of the shop and he said . . I told ya so . He was in no mood for me to hug him after he watched what I did on the lathe .
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He had fears of me burying him with shavings .
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If I recall right , I think I paid $12.00 plus taxes for that hard maple turning blank . If I could get 15 bucks for that bowl I would be happy to cover the wood and shop equipment to say nothing at all for my time . . Would still easily get $15.00 each for four of them for a total of $60.00 if I had cut the blank into four boards and made RM bowls .. I could have staggered the grain effect on the rings and at least make them a little more attractive looking .
$15.00 only because it is a one wood bowl . Ones the same size with either laminated or segmented contrasting woods would be proportionately more with segmented ones being double price in that small size range . .
 
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Beautiful bowl. It may seem a waste to have all the contents of the bowl as shavings on your shop floor (or lathe), but such is the nature of bowl turning. Not every bowl blank can be cored and not everyone has a coring system. With a bowl that size, there wouldn't be much that you could do with a core.
 
jsolie said:
Beautiful bowl. It may seem a waste to have all the contents of the bowl as shavings on your shop floor (or lathe), but such is the nature of bowl turning. Not every bowl blank can be cored and not everyone has a coring system. With a bowl that size, there wouldn't be much that you could do with a core.
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Yes , I agree . I know some that have expensive coring systems and have only used them a couple times and given up so the coring system only seems to pay for themselves by the ones that really master their use .

But then sometimes it is just fun to stick a hunk of wood on the lathe like this and see all those nice curly shavings flying out from a bowl gouge . It's just a hobby and if I can break even on average (a loss on this one) with the price of tools and shop supplies then it a rewarding situation.
 
Spanx said:
William,how much of the block would it take to make the same shape with your RM?
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To make that much of a curve it would take two pieces of the same diameter by 3/4" thick wood so the block could have made two curved sided ones .
 
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