All the mistakes I made turning my first bowl - Pole Lathe Learning Diary: 1
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2021
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I hope you enjoy this less edited style video.
I filmed my successes and struggles as I attempt to teach my self to turn bowls on a foot powered pole lathe I built myself. I have never done any turning, so although I do a lot of greenwoodworking, I'm a total novice!
This series won't be a tutorial on how to turn bowls, there are much better videos from experienced turners for that. I'm trying to document my learning process in the hope that it will encourage others to have a go and maybe shed some light on the process of self-teaching a new skill.
I'll go over the details of my pole lathe in a seperate video if there's interest. I recently finished it while loosely following plans by Owen Thomas, he has some excellent videos on his channel showing how to build the design.
I've been having a great time learning to turn, hopefully that comes through despite my frustration with the somewhat esoteric tools and techniques.
sharing how you learn and make natural mistakes, is a big help for all the people of the wood community. You are very skilled and smart.
Thanks, I'm glad to help!
Building my own pole lathe,just finished the poppits today. I have no experience at all on a pole lathe or know anybody else who use’s one, so will be watching ALOT of RUclips. Thank you so much for this video. This will be my reality in the coming weeks. Well done 👍
Just wanted to add I think for your first bowl you did a great job. I fully expect to destroy my first way before you did😀.
Would love to see a tour of the lathe design. Who knows, might give you some ideas on how to tweak it.
So been there! Perseverance! Great learning here! 🎉
That turned out great. I’m going to make a lathe and give it a go
Very interested in your pole lathe!!!
Good job here on documentation.
For gaging thickness, get a pair of double calipers, they are two connected S-shapes so that you can see the measurument your're taking while running it along the bowl wall.
Good idea, I have some calipers that would work but I didn't think to use them
Não tinha ideia que não era fácil tornar nesse tipo de torno. Tava pensando em tentar, mas agora não sei...
Thank you for sharing your learning experience on this one. Very nice video 👍
Really enjoyed watching this. You are very patient! The process reminded me a lot of trimming / turning in pottery (the issues you experienced like the thing flying off and thinning the bottom third and base too much are very common as you learn). Once I have a space for a setup, I'm going to give this a go -- hopefully my pottery skills will come in handy.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. It's pretty similar to trimming pottery in the same way that woodcarving is similar to kurinuki :~)
I don't know if you've seen my newer videos but my confidence on the lathe has really improved and I'd say I'm a skilled turner now, it's interesting to see the difference as it's all documented.
@@jones_trees_and_treen I love how skills and experience with different materials seems to be transferable between crafts.
I'm just making my way through your turning series now. Seeing you from the very start was nice. Using a pole lathe looks kind of daunting but seeing the kinds of mistakes that are common when you get started made it seem do-able. I don't know of anyone near me who does this, so I'm going to stumble through it myself.
When I was learning wood turning or trying an unfamiliar tool or technique I found it useful to rest the tool against the work and then rotate the work slowly by hand to test how the cutting edge would behave and whether there was a risk if it catching.
Good idea
Nice work! It sees to me that the centers (metal spikes) are not not meeting in line. That could cause the bowl to jump off the lathe. Also if the center is not deep enough in the bottom of the bowl. Also - don't hog the tip of the tool with your left hand. Slide the tool through your fingers that are resting on the tool rest.
I think the centres are aligned, I checked that. Thanks for the tips
When you center the bowl make sure the mandrel spins true not the bowl other than that nice work man! I just got into pole lathe turning as well and found your channel I'll be learning with ya. Nice tools too did you make them?
Thanks, the tools were made by @liam_culbertson on Instagram. I've since learned that as well about the mandrel
Nice video Julian. Pretty solid effort go a first bowl I reckon:)