Beautiful examples of mother nature will facilitate if left to her own. Non turners and possibly some turners would look at the top bowl in particular and say "how did you do that? Did you carve it?"
Lyle, Robo and others who primarily or exclusively turn green, do you come back and flatten the bottoms after the bowls dry? I’d turn more green, but always feel that a wobbly bowl detracts from the appeal. Maybe a mistaken bias?
Many of my HFs and NE bowls have round footless bottoms.
Hi Lou, I don't think I ever have....flattened the bottom, but I'm not making bowls that people are going to eat ice cream out of....
With green turned bowls I usually have a tenon to remove so when dry I jam chuck to turn the tenon off which then trues up the base.
It's worth putting down a barrier layer of brown paper first. Otherwise the swarf can scratch the cast iron surface. Unfortunately, I found this out on a brand new top.
The turn once to finish pieces will warp if thin enough or crack if too thick making remounting almost impossible and definately impractical. The simplest and most effective method is to clamp or otherwise attach sand paper to a flat surface then holding the piece in both hands slide it over the sand paper with the pressure concentrated on the high spots or is that the low spots. The piece may warp again during the annual change in seasons that usually can be influenced by species and figure in thee wood.
