Average Of One Bowl Ring Per Minute

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Made these three rather plain and low priced bowls today and decided to make a short video of how slick the Ringmaster cuts out rings. Those three bowls were made from a two foot long by eight inch wide by 3/4" thick piece of maple.

In a previous video , I had shown how some do it with taping the rings just before the cutters are all the way through so the rings don't pop off.
This time I showed how quickly it can be done by letting them fly off by themselves.
What looks like a ridge in the center of the rings is paper thin and can be wiped off with a finger . When using masking tape , the path of the cutters overlap on each other so that doesn't show.

I cut out and glued up rings and sanded and finished these three all within a couple hours. Of course there is always waiting time for glue and finishes to dry but I don't count that time because it is computer time rather than shop time ;D.

Here is link to the Youtube video that shows the cutting of the rings and I don't normally go that fast .
I normally take my time and spend about an extra minute per bowl ;D Just wanted to show what the machine is capable of. ;)

Three Minute Bowl From Board - YouTube

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And here are the three bowls

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nava1uni said:
Interesting video. What do you do with the hole in the bottom?
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A 1/2" tapered hole plug cutter is used to cut plugs and glue in from top and bottom.
Matching grain pattern from a scrap of the same wood hides it pretty good.
I was surprised after selling 30 bowls that I did not get one single complaint about the plugged hole .
 
Wow, that is pretty cool. but doesnt this take the fun out of turning?
Also this is a pretty awesome idea if you wanted to make a nice bowl out of a slabbed burl.
thanks for the video, and cool bowls.
 
:eek::eek: Bill; Nice job of opening up this method of turnong bowls to the people who have never seen a Ring Master machine at work. It may take some of the old time fun out of turning, but on the other hand, it's not leaving 90% of our natural resorses on the shop floor as chips. Instead of buying a 12x12x12" block of expensive or exotic wood, you can buy a 12x12x3/4" board and make the same size bowl. Jim S
 
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Interesting, I didn't know how these worked. Thank you for answering the questions that I
am sure a lot of people had.
 
William - I SWEAR that you are a salesperson for this thing! Or you SHOULD be. Every time you post, I want it even more!!

Now I wish I had gone a little higher on that ebay auction, because I KNOW me... Something tells me that sometime after the new year, I'll be ordering one!
 
Yes . . . I should be getting a commission on the company's sales :biggrin: even though I have no connection whatsoever with them. But I am sure that is not going to happen.
They are not cheap because they are totally made in USA . I am surprised there are not any China knock-off ones "yet".

I for one have proven that the price of the machine can be justified and reovered in a couple good craft sales if a person wants to crank out several dozen bowls to do so . If a person wants to only make a few bowls as gifts , then it becomes an expensive but very enjoyable hobby.

I understand about missing turning but I still have my full size lathe and could put a chunk of wood on that and get knee deep in shavings whenever the spirit moves me if I want to :tongue:

I actually use my lathe for sanding the ringmaster bowls although it can be done right on the ringmaster if desired.
 
I made a tool holder for a cut off tool, set it up and cut ,greensh white maple boards, and turned them over glued, sanded and came out good, poor mans tool, going tomake a cutter for cutting the wood ,saves a lot of wood shavings or cutting,and every one i made are gone, people pick them out first,just set there with tool in jig,love the brown paper sack and wood glue, when done just a little tap with screwdriver and the blank holding the bowl pops off, the flip over and work on bottom ,great help
carpblaster
 
carpblaster said:
I made a tool holder for a cut off tool, set it up and cut ,greensh white maple boards, and turned them over glued, sanded and came out good, poor mans tool, going tomake a cutter for cutting the wood ,saves a lot of wood shavings or cutting,and every one i made are gone, people pick them out first,just set there with tool in jig,love the brown paper sack and wood glue, when done just a little tap with screwdriver and the blank holding the bowl pops off, the flip over and work on bottom ,great help
carpblaster
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Pictures ?
 
Thanks for the video!


Have you ever thought about using the hole as a place to have a pedestal to hold the entire bowl? Just thinking out loud.....






Scott (sort of a platter thing) B
 
MrWright said:
Great video.. Can you put the roughed-out bowl back on the Ringmaster to sand it, or is it done by hand?
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Yes you can . Just as easy as putting it on a regular lathe either mini or full size.
I use my full size lathe for sanding only because it has variable speed and because it doesn't tie up the ringmaster. I usually do several bowls in one time frame so I can rotate cutting rings and glueing them and sanding .
Only limitations to not using the RM for sanding is if you are cutting rings and making tall vase's or lamps etc. Then you need a regular lathe where the tailstock can be brought up for support on the open end.
Any bowl up to 12" diameter can be sanded right on the RM if desired.
 
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