little elm bowl

[Gerald Lawrence]

I agree keep things simple for beginners. I reccomend beginners take a basic bowl class and use whatever grind they learned in that class until they get pretty good with it before experimenting with other tools and grinds.

However many of the participants in the forum are past the beginner stage.
The various gouge grinds determines what the tool can be effectively used for.

One of the benefits of local chapters is seeing different people demonstrate. Over time members get exposed to a variety of tools and techniques. Many chapters have workshops and mentoring sessions to provide hands on experience and opportunities to experiment. Over time everyone develops their own preferred tools and techniques.

Al I agree that there are different grinds that work for different purposes. However I believe that a beginner should learn how to use the grind he has for each different tool and not worry about what is the best grind and as you said most who post here are beyond the beginner, but there are lots of beginners out there reading what we post. Guess a lot of the discussion gets down to semantics and we are just repeating things we have said before.

 

[Raul McCai]

This is a clip from a demo showing how I use a gouge to hollow a small bowl.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flw8LwQqGQU

This same technique will work quite well on a 20" bowl.

Thanks Al. I think I'm getting there

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmpoGJXHzJA&feature=youtu.be

 

[hockenbery]

Thanks Al. I think I'm getting there

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmpoGJXHzJA&feature=youtu.be

Yes indeed you are! Looks good from here!
Now: practice practice practice and the practice some more.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

More like most likely one of the following......it's all good.

• French Beaujolais
  
• Italian Chianti
  
• Cabernet Sauvignon
  
• Australian Shiraz
  
• French Bordeaux
  
• Merlot

My own made Cabernet Sauvignon, and my white is Sauvignon Blank, at least for these last few years, Cheers

 

[Mike Johnson]

Leo,

When I have the time, wine making is one of my hobbies, the Cabernet Sauvignon wines are on the top of my list of favorites.
Any wines from the Barossa Valley in Australia are one of my favorites year after year.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Leo,

When I have the time, wine making is one of my hobbies, the Cabernet Sauvignon wines are on the top of my list of favorites.
Any wines from the Barossa Valley in Australia are one of my favorites year after year.

It is not a real hobby for me Mike, just that LOML and I do like a glass of wine with out meal, and the taxes here in Ontario are just so absurd that to be able to afford a nice wine I have to make it myself, I use California juice.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Leo,

I used to get frozen grapes and refrigerated grapes shipped in from California each year to make wine.
The pasturized grape juices available these days make excellent award winning wines on a consistent basis.