• The forum upgrades have been completed. These were moderate security fixes from our software vendor and it looks like everything is working well. If you see any problems please post in the Forum Technical Support forum or email us at forum_moderator (at) aawforum.org. Thank you
  • February 2026 Turning Challenge: Cookie Jar! (click here for details)
  • Congratulations to Matt Carvalho for "Red Mallee Folded Form" being selected as Turning of the Week for February 9, 2026 (click here for details)
  • AAW Symposium demonstrators announced - If the 2026 AAW International Woodturning Symposium is not on your calendar, now is the time to register. And there are discounts available if you sign up early, by Feb. 28. Early Bird pricing gives you the best rate for our 40th Anniversary Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, June 4–7, 2026. (There are discounts for AAW chapter members too) For more information vist the discussion thread here or the AAW registration page
  • Welcome new registering member. Your username must be your real First and Last name (for example: John Doe). "Screen names" and "handles" are not allowed and your registration will be deleted if you don't use your real name. Also, do not use all caps nor all lower case.

Another elm wing bowl in the works

Raul McCai

Raul McCai

Joined
Oct 29, 2014
Messages
469
Likes
90
Location
nj
I think it was Al who told me that I should try skipping the mortise.
Well I'm having a go at it with this one. Still have to turn the thing around and turn the other side.
Haven't quite got my head around how I'll do that, but Se La Vie

i-FxW22dc-XL.jpg


i-xjb5Tsd-XL.jpg


i-s9hpVKc-XL.jpg

i-wbH5h2w-XL.jpg


I may try vacuum chucking it. I had a really nice commercial grade rotating union from Deublin tossed in my lap and I'm almost ready to assemble a vacuum system. Maybe it'll wait for that.
 
Raul, I would have left a hefty tenon on the bottom, turned the inside and tops of the wings, and remounted to turn off the tenon. I would hesitate to hollow a winged bowl using a vacuum chuck. I would be concerned that tool pressure would cause the bowl to creep, causing a wing to hit the tool rest or you. Turning the top of the wings might be even more dangerous. I can envision a plywood fixture on a face plate into which the bowl could be mounted and positively secured.
 
I should add that you can reduce the risk by using the tailstock center while turning the wings and during part of the roughing out of the bowl interior.
 
thanks for the suggestions. I considered hot gluing a tenon to it. As you can see I won't do that. (edit) or maybe I shall I'd only need to turn past the BLO to get to fresh wood and that doesn't go deep.

I am will use the tail-stock and am considering a shaped butt plate, mounted to a faceplate, to turn the wing keeping it captive. From there, I have various notions about stock removal in the bowl. After turning the wing I'll have to address the post inside the bowl and I have a sneaking suspicion that there won't be any speed above 12 rpm. I do have a plan, a lunatic one, but it's a plan.
 
I have often used CA to join wet bowls to a drywood glue blocks
( learned it from Lyle about 15 years ago)
Works great for wood that will only be on the glue block less than hour.
The glue block is taken off by fracturing the glue with a chisel.
CA is about the only glue around that is not stronger than the wood.

If the wood is moving at all the wood movement will fracture the glue joint in a few hours.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top