Woodturning a large beech salad bowl on a VB36
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Woodturning a large beech salad bowl on a VB36. This wood was taken from a beech tree that had been felled locally due to honey fungus attacking the tree. I had to chainsaw it into smaller blanks to fit onto the lathe so was a fun project to turn, I hope you enjoy watching.
Very nice bowl I like the natural look to it and it looks very nice I love the lines and all the wood grain in that beautiful thank you very much God bless
Thanks Richard really appreciate your comment 😁
Wonderful salad bowl!
Thanks Carol 😁
Amazing wood and turning
Thanks for your comment 😁
Fab looking bowl mate stay safe
Thanks Steven, hope you are keeping well 😁
Very beautiful bowl and I agree with the others. You explain what you are doing very well. About the ripping chain...I can't find one here in the US. We had to re-grind our crosscut chain to do some log ripping. The Stihl dealer in my town had never heard of a ripping chain for a chainsaw. :/ Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Terry, I know some of my friends have converted their cross cutting chain to ripping chains by filing in a new angle as this can be cheaper than buying a new ripping chain. I tend to buy my ripping chains from either Granberg international or from the company Origon based in Portland in the US I hope this helps 😁 thanks for watching.
happy you know it all
Thanks Kenneth
I enjoy watching your videos for the wonderful enthusiasm and great tips. Thank you so much!
Thanks Don really appreciate your comment, hope the tips come in handy 😁
Love the bowl especially the thickness of it. Many turners turn their bowls very thin. That bowl reminds me of my grandmother's biscuit making bowl. I love it.
Thanks Mary 😁 I prefer thicker bowls too 😁
Now that is one beautiful bowl. Great turn and vido.
Stay safe.
Cheers
Mike
Thanks Mike, really appreciate your comment 😁
Tom, why didn’t you use a large 4 jaw chuck in the expansion mode on the base to prevent the faceplate screw holes marring it? Besides those holes in the bottom (one of my pet peeves of woodturning), it is a beautiful bowl. It also showed of the advantages of having a “bowl” lathe that can handle large blanks. I can do up to 25” on my lathe, which is more than enough for me. Keep the videos coming as your style of demoing is alway informative. Thanks. Cheers, Tom
Thanks for your comment Tom, I normally use a 4 jaw chuck with most of my bowls, however the very center of the bottom of the bowl was pretty spalted and spongy and the foot size I turned just happened to be the same size as a face plate I had to hand, so ended up using the face plate to remount it this time. In the past I've hidden face plate screw holes with PVA glue, matchsticks and sawdust (from the same bowl) making a wood filler which hides them pretty well or have used copper/ aluminium rod or a contrasting wooden dowel to make a feature of the holes. Not sure what i'll do with this one yet we'll see in a few months time . As always thanks for watching :-)
The Welsh Woodman Hi Tom. It was such a nice looking bowl that I was disappointed to see the screw holes in the bottom. Hopefully you’ll show it again after you take care of them. Thanks again for the video. Stay safe and well. Cheers, Tom
That's a very beautiful bowl My Friend! Happy Easer!
Thanks Steve happy Easter 😁
Hey hey. Another great one. Keep them coming!
Thanks Bob 😁
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Great job and thanks for the tips! 😁
Thanks for your comment hope the trips come in handy 😁
Hi there ! Lovely job ! Just out of interest do you not use sanding sealer before you apply wax ?
Hi Steve thanks for your comment, I tend to apply sanding sealer to seasoned wood (wood with less than 14% moisture content) as this seals up the end grains which helps not absorb as much of the finish into the grains of the wood. With my green turned wooden bowls I'll just apply wax without a sanding sealer as the wax allows the bowl to dry out slowly (clingfilm works really well too) 😁 then in a good few months I'll either return the shape and apply a new finish (normally using a sanding sealer) or keep the shape as it is and apply more wax to the bowl with the option of buffing it up with a polishing mop. I hope this helps 😁
The Welsh Woodman yeah it does make perfect sense thanks very much for that 👍
I love the chainsaw...I saw the subliminal subscribe message there, cunning 😉...I understand about the fulcrum point and keeping the tool length your side of the tool rest...cool result.
Thanks Les, it's a good chainsaw for processing bowl blanks, thanks for watching 😁
Hi, is there any chance that you could do a vid showing the inside of your workshop? Im finally getting mine sorted and would be interested in seeing how you have set yours up? Thanks.
Thanks for your comment, I've just had a good clean out of the workshop over the last few days so will try and film a workshop tour and talk through my set up, hopefully this will help :-) Thanks for watching
I personly open the flute pretty much too rough out a bowl, but I dropp down the handle as far as it’s possible so I can cut only on the outer part of the wing and that gives me a pretty good finish
Thanks for your comment Yannic, it's always good to hear how other people turn thanks for watching 😁
That’s a beautiful big bowl, love it
Thank you Yannic
Hi Tom, Great bowl with great spelting. I really like the way you explain the "Physics" of turning as you go through the processes. Keep up the great work and stay safe. Hwyl, Huw
Thanks Huw 😁
Great video! Learnt a lot! How did you mount the bowl to hollow it?
Thanks Rob, I mounted it back on the lathe with a face plate this time, as the foot I turned ended up being the exact size of a face plate I had to hand. I'll normally turn a mortice or tenon and hold the piece with my chuck. When the bowl is completely seasoned and finished I'll hide the screw holes with glue and match sticks or contrasting dowels to make the bottom look nicer.i hope this helps, thanks for watching 😁
@@thewelshwoodman649 yes it does. Cheers. Look forward to trying my first bowl by myself.
I've just got my lathe set up and I find your your way of teaching to be far easier for me to follow, great work.
Thanks Alex really appreciate your comment, hope the tips help 😁
But I also got a other tool grind (more a fingernail grind)
I sometimes change the gouge I use part way through turning, a fingernail gouge works well for the bottom of bowls 😁
I like the 40/40 grind for bowl turning as well 😁
A beautiful bowl. I love the character in the wood. I just came across an arborist taking down a sick beech in my neighborhood. I got four sections which I’ve cut and rough turned into eight bowl blanks. Not quite this big. The largest is about 13” in diameter. It also has lovely spalting but the wood is not so far gone that it is too punky. Do you keep the ripping chain on your saw, or swap it out when you need it? Two saws seems like the height of luxury.
Thanks Lou, beech is lovely to turn, I've found a good tip to keep you in interesting wood is to turn a nice bowl for the arborist as a thank you for taking some logs as the next time they take down a tree they are more than happy to send a load of free and interesting pieces of wood your way :-) I've got a cross cutting chain and a ripping chain and I just change them out depending on the type of cutting I'm doing, I've found a ripping chain really speeds things up when cutting bowl blanks in the direction of grain however its a little trickier to sharpen. Hope this helps :-) Thanks for watching.