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  1. John Torchick

    Making a bedan tool and scrapers?

    Not sure if this is the correct forum section but here goes. Got three pieces of HSS a while back. Discovered them hiding on the top shelf in the shop. One is going to be a bedan tool. I was thinking the other two could be ground to RH and LH scrapers similar to those used for bowl interiors. I...
  2. Cherry Wood Bowl

    Cherry Wood Bowl

    It was supposed to be a natural edge bowl or vase ... started with a wrong position on the lathe when I realized that it could not be anymore a natural edge ... so I turn it in 2 axis. 6" diameter, 5" wide and 3 1/2" tall
  3. Cherry Wood Bowl

    Cherry Wood Bowl

    It was supposed to be a natural edge bowl or vase ... started with a wrong position on the lathe when I realized that it could not be anymore a natural edge ... so I turn it in 2 axis. 6" diameter, 5" wide and 3 1/2" tall
  4. Walnut Burl Bowl

    Walnut Burl Bowl

  5. Walnut Bowl

    Walnut Bowl

    Walnut burl 9 1/4" in diameter by 2 3/4"
  6. John Torchick

    Real big bowl!

    This is from a fellow on another forum. Click on the photo after it is downloaded. https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/492649944236270
  7. John Torchick

    New Vari Grind jig

    Treated myself to an early birthday present. Had a birthday card from Woodcraft for 10% off. Bought some pen kits for some Christmas orders already. I have the Wolverine jig already. I saw the original Vari Grind Jig and put it in my basket. Now to continue on another thread, what is the best...
  8. Ambrosia Maple Bowl

    Ambrosia Maple Bowl

    Ambrosia Maple Bowl 6" diameter 3.5" deep.
  9. Mallee

    Mallee

    sold to me as Mallee, but I don't think so. But whatever it is I like the outcome stands around 6" W.O.P. and buffed
  10. Blackwood  Acacia Melanoxylon

    Blackwood Acacia Melanoxylon

    Blackwood spirals 8" dia AO and buffed. This is piece came from a tree downed in a major rain storm it literally washed away its roots. A very gnarly piece of wood with the grain going every whichaway. No tear out more like divot out.
  11. Red Cedar Bowl

    Red Cedar Bowl

    A bowl made form Red Cedar from new Mexico
  12. John Torchick

    Grandson really into turning!

    We finally got our schedules together. My wife and I got him a "Christmas gift" for a penturning class at our local Woodcraft store. Only took 10 months to get together. He turned one blank yesterday and found it had worm holes. When he got down so far, we could see the tube. The wood let...
  13. Andrew McCarn

    Can Someone Help me out ( LDD Bowl Drying issues )

    So I have been doing the LDD bowl drying method for a few weeks now with pretty great success until recently... I decided to get the big bottles of Great Value Brand Dish-washing Liquid so I could feel up a large container and soak more bowls at once. WELL the outcome was I lost all 8 Maple...
  14. MarkAndrews

    Bowl cracked on lathe overnight

    I've been trying to use free wood for my projects so that I can learn how to prepare blanks, dry the roughed bowls properly etc. I had a bunch of ornamental pear logs (it's quite popular in Southern Calif for lining the streets) The bowl pictured was turned from an approximately 3" thick slab...
  15. Mesquite Bowl

    Mesquite Bowl

    One of my beginner bowls turned in early 2007
  16. barbsiddiqui

    Catalpa Bowl

    A yard tree taken down gave me lots of wood to air dry, and this is the first bowl made from our home Catalpa. Seven one-half inches in diameter, and about four and one-half inches deep.
  17. barbsiddiqui

    Chilean Tineo

    Potpourri bowl in Chilean Tineo, 4-1/2" in diameter.
  18. W

    Eliminating chuck marks Q

    I have been at turning for many years, just getting used to some newer bowl mounting methods. How do you all eliminate those annoying chuck marks on either ti interior expanding dovetail or the calmping onto a dovetail tenon. See the dimples on this mini bowl I turned today? I use the...
  19. Mesquite Bowl

    Mesquite Bowl

    Mesquite bowl with lacquer finish. Donated to local Tarrant Area Food Bank for upcoming Empty Bowls Project.
  20. FOG Wood Bowl

    FOG Wood Bowl

    Walnut oiled finish. I think that the wood might be hickory. I donated it to local Tarrant Area Food Bank for their Empty Bowls event in 2012.
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