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Scott Hargrove

The trick is finding logs with vases in them

I saw something like this online and had to give it a try. I wanted the unfinished part to be very rustic, so I started with a pretty rough, dried out and worm-eaten piece of red cedar. It's all done at pretty low speed because of the imbalance.
Not perfect by any stretch, but I learned a lot for turning the next one.
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Jim Reynolds
Very interesting project and well executed. A riff on the emerging bowl project that I can't recall ever seeing. I'm estimating that this is 6" tall and 8" wide at the widest point. Is that correct?
 
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Jim Reynolds said:
Very interesting project and well executed. A riff on the emerging bowl project that I can't recall ever seeing. I'm estimating that this is 6" tall and 8" wide at the widest point. Is that correct?
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Just a tad bigger... 8" tall and maybe 10" wide at the widest point.
The real challenge isn't turning an unbalanced piece. The challenge is getting the centerlines matched up perfectly so that the curves match and can be blended nicely.
 
Scott Luallin
I just tried to copy your turning. I was going to ask how you got the two turns to match. I wasn't thinking and just kind of eyeballed the end grab (bowl top) and side grain (bowl side) and predictably, was off by enough that I was cutting into the other curve.

Does the first cut need to be on the centerline of the wood, or is it just the side grain mounting that has to be center to the face grain turn?

thanks!

--Scott
 
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Scott Luallin said:
I just tried to copy your turning. I was going to ask how you got the two turns to match. I wasn't thinking and just kind of eyeballed the end grab (bowl top) and side grain (bowl side) and predictably, was off by enough that I was cutting into the other curve.

Does the first cut need to be on the centerline of the wood, or is it just the side grain mounting that has to be center to the face grain turn?

thanks!

--Scott
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I did the same thing, and then fudged the mounting until it matched. It was a challenge. I turned the top and bottom first. I think the trick is finding the exact centerline between those - both front and back - to mount and turn the face.
 

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