Celebrating One Year of YouTube Woodturning a Sweet Gum Bowl
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2023
- It is hard to believe a year has already passed by but here we are! One year of posting on RUclips & what a ride it has been. Thank you for all the support you all have shown me!
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I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for the comments! You are all are too kind & I appreciate it!
I love the shape of this bowl. I am inspired by your work. I’ve been apprenticing with my neighbor for a couple of years and just recently got my own lathe. It’s exciting and intimidating! Thanks for putting your art out into the world to be seen!
Concave shaped bowls are some of my favorite to turn! & congrats on the lathe, thats awesome! What kind did you purchase & thank you for the kind words!
@@andrewmccarn I got the new 2019 Oliver. My neighbor has an Oliver that’s 75 years old, so I decided to stick with the brand. Hopefully this one will last that long.
Congratulations on one year 🎉
Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful bowl. The grain is incredible, so much movement. 😊😊
Thank you very much! The warping is one of the reasons I love turning sweet gum. Gives it so much character
Love your art and very much enjoy your videos!
Thank you!
The music and the turning sounds were so relaxing. Thank you. Of course, it's a beautiful bowl!
Thank you! That was definitely the feeling I was wanting with this video so I am glad to hear that!
I really enjoy your videos! The music in this one is great and very fitting. Your lighting and editing are excellent as well. I’m a hobbyist woodturner, and your channel is a great place to be…
Thanks!
I appreciate that a ton Mark!
You just made me realize that warped bowls have a unique beauty! Thank you. And who would have thought sweet gum could be so beautiful.
I use to not care for them when I started turning but I quickly became a fan of warped bowls. It adds a one-of-a-kind uniqueness to each bowl since no wood will warp the same. I love that it shows how wood is a living material. Also sweet gum is very pretty! I dont know if I have ever seen a piece of sweet gum I did not like, one of my favorites to work with!
Andrew, that bowl came out great! I really like when a bowl warps a little to give it character and show it’s real beauty. Great job and congrats on one year making RUclips videos!
Thanks John! I love allowing the bowl to warp a little as well. It allows each bowl to have its own individual uniqueness.
Thank you once again for sharing your talent with us! That’s a beautiful bowl. The figuring in that bowl is amazing!
Thank you very much!
Great video and awesome bowl! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
🎉🎉Congratulations on your first year of success!!! This bowl is beautiful! I absolutely love the grain...the colors are awesome! Thank you for your videos and can't wait to see your new upcoming videos
Thank you!
congratulations on 1 year. I hope to see more of your content as time goes on. Nice bowl, btw.
Thank you, I hope you do as well!
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Black Sweet gum is even MORE irregular and dense. I made a set of six and sent them out for stabilized in medium blue. Got them back and they finished great. Got more than I had hoped for.
Congrats Andrew !
That's a fantastic piece of wood and you made a gorgeous bowl my Friend.
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Thank you! Its hard to beat sweet gum. It is some of the prettiest wood I have ever worked with.
Thanks for your vids. Turners love watching other turners turn!
Watching turning & furniture videos with a cup of coffee is how I typically get my day started! lol
Absolutely beautiful design 👍👍
Gorgeous! And, CONGRATS on your one year on YT!!
Thank you, I appreciate that! Hard to believe its already been a year!
Love your videos Andrew, and I am a huge fan of sweet gum, i think also known as the most hated tree in the world, "Gumball Tree" !! Maybe different but I think they are both Gum.... I have two large logs I've been cutting off of and they are truly awesome looking once finished, I would say just as pretty as walnut. Great color and grain patterns, chatoyance, etc.... I've made a bunch of large bowls and people love them, so I've grown to love those hated gumball tress!! LOL thanks for sharing your journey, great videos bro!! -Rich in Virginia Beach.
You share the same thoughts that I do about sweet gum Rich! I have always been told how terrible of wood it is & that might be true for other things but when it comes to turning, its one of my top three & I agree that it can be just as pretty as walnut! You just get so much variety of colors & patterns with sweet gum that I have never really seen with other local woods. Anytime some says theyve cut one day I try my best to get it lol
Lovely big bowl for ur 1 year Anniversary 🎉😊 beautiful shape & grain 🥣 ur slow motion of the wood shavings flying on to u is brilliant photography, for me (as a non wood turner) it's amazing to see the force they come off at Congrats 👏
Thank you for the kind words Karen! I am trying to include more slow mo into my videos because it adds such a cool look into how the bowl spins & the tool cutting. I appreciate the comment!
Andrew, very nice bowl. I really like your video styling. It’s what attracted me to your channel and why I watch everything one of your videos. Keep up the great work. Congratulations on your first year.
Thank you Greg! I really do appreciate that
Congratulations! It's the first time I see. Beautiful bow! Incredible beauty wood. I subscribed into your channel!
Thank you!
Absolutely stunning bowl, well done and thanks 😊
Thank you!!
Well done on 1 year, the bowl looks amazing. More like this in the future I hope
Thats the plan! As of now, id like to have a mixture of educational stuff like last week & more creative stuff like this!
congrats on the year, what a striking bowl, I thnk you made the best sweet gum one yet that I have seen.🍵
Thats awesome!! I appreciate you saying that & thank you!
Congratulations 🎉 on the year. Bowl looks great and so did the video as always 👍
Thanks bud!
Thats one Stunning bowl lovely grain pattern
I love turning sweet gum because it seems each piece is this pretty
I'm a "long time" subscriber lol. You do really beautiful working. Thank you.
I appreciate ya for subscribing! lol & thank you!
So proud of all your hard work!
And I appreciate all the support!!
Gorgeous bowl. I love my maple, cherry and walnut, but some of my prettiest bowls are Sweet Gum.
Sounds like me! Some of the more unique woods like sweet gum can be the prettiest woods.
great work Andrew! Love watching your process... your content is great!
Thanks Anthony!
Absolutely beautiful! I'm glad you're here putting these videos out!
Thank you!
This was an awesome video and bowl
Congratulations brother! You’ve came a long way in a year, and I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us in the future!
This was an absolutely gorgeous bowl!
Thank ya buddy! I appreciate that
Very nice budy and congrat for one year on youtube .
Thank you!
That’s a beautiful bowl!
Thanks Wyatt!
Great job on it man keep it up 👍
Thanks Nathan!
Gorgeous bowl Andrew.
Thanks Doug!
Enjoy your videos, production keeps getting better.......was never bad. May be time to buy a coring sytem to save some of that Sweet Gum.
Thank you Scott! I actually have one; I bought the one way system a few years ago but sadly the last time I tried to core, I tried on the extension & it was too much & ended up bending the knife from a bad catch. I am hoping to get a new knife for it soon.
Beautiful
Congratulations Andrew I enjoy your work we both share a lot in common I too began bowl turning on a Harbour Freight lathe I also live in North Carolina keep up the good work my name is Eli just thought I would give you my name since I know yours have a good day.
Thanks Eli! That was a good lathe to start on for sure
Awesome bowl, Andrew..
I had a liquidamber tree cut down afew months ago.. I got about 10 slabs out of it and a heaps of potential bowls out of it.. 😂
I bet those slabs are beautiful! I thought about slabbing this log out with the chainsaw mill but it was only around 2 feet so I decided to just get some bowl blanks from it. Talk about having to be patient waiting on those slabs to dry lol
Andrew your video work is excellent and your sound quality is as well. I'm trying to improve mine. But I have a ways you go yet. You have found your niche. I try to make mine more instructional but I'm not sure about my audience if they are woodturners I'm probably not going to teach them anything. If they want to just watch a sitting video with wood chips flying then my videos won't hit the mark. Keep up the good work I think you are hiring the mark.
Thank you for the kind words. I am a firm believer that no matter how long you have been doing something, you can always learn something new from others so keep it at it! I have found that the more I niche down my videos, the more RUclips help finds the right audience especially with educational stuff. Also you may have a lot of beginner woodturners find your videos which would definitely be a learning crowd. This is exactly how I started turning; I would sit and watch and learn from others on RUclips and then go a try and replicate their technique afterwards. Keep at it!
Congratulations and yet another beautiful piece of work. Could you maybe make a short video on what you use to film/edit with? I would love to try to make videos like this. Thanks for any advice.
Also, what oil do you add to your bowls?
Absolutely! Got some ideas I am working on showing the "behind the scenes". I should be doing a long & short form video on that. I use either Real Milk Paint Co. Half & Half tung oil or Tried & True Oil. They are both great!
You turn slowly and methodically and most of all you respect the wood.
Thank you! Sometimes I dont always hit the mark but I try and make the most of the pieces I turn.
Love your videos. What finish do you used and what are you using to apply it?
Thanks Jason! Most of the time I use Half and Half tung oil from Real Milk Paint Co. I also enjoy using Tried & True's finishes as well. To apply either of those, I just use a shop rag and rub it on, wipe away an excess and do a few coats that way. To finish everything off, I will do a coat of wood wax from RMPCo. and do a hand sanding of 1200 grit and buff. Walrus Oil also makes some great finishes as well but those seem to be my go-to.
Beautiful bowl. What is the actual time it takes to make a bowl like this?
The turning portion without filming can be done in around 30 - 45 minutes, with filming, it doubles lol Overall process with drying and everything is a little over a month.
Great video! Awesome sweetgum bowl! Did you air dry it before finishing or do you have a kiln to dry it? Asking for a friend. 😁
Thanks! For this bowl, I turned to final thickness the first time through and then it sat in my office in front of the AC vent for a few weeks and then dried in the shop for another! I have a very weird way of drying bowls lol
@@andrewmccarn Whatever works for you is the best way. I just wondered, I live in Ohio, not as much humidity. I will sometimes use a dehydrator if it's 16" or less, then let it set in my shop for a week. Thanks for the reply!
Really nice, is that the linseed oil finish ? Really nice grain
Thanks! and that is half & half tung oil - diluted with citrus solvent
Cricky Andy what a bloody ripper, congrats on 12 bloody months on utube what a journey hey, want to learn something different check out Richard west woodturing .Aussie Aussie Aussie GDAY MATE from brisbane Australia
Thanks Ernie! Always look forward to your comments!