July 2023 Turning Challenge: Final Results

[Bill Boehme]

The turning challenge for the month of July 2023 was to turn an emerging bowl. Now, the challenge for all forum members (this means you and me) is to choose a winner. Voting begins now and concludes at midnight UTC (coordinated universal time) on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. You are only allowed one vote; once you have voted, you won't be able to go back and change your vote. After you have voted, you can track the vote totals. The voting is secret (just like an actual election), so nobody else can see who you voted for (not even the moderators/administrators). In case of a tie vote, the forum moderators will gather in a virtual waist-deep shavings-filled shop to determine the winner. As in all previous challenges, the winner might have to pass a lie detector test before being awarded the Grand Prize (rumored to be a dogleg SRG).

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[Dean Center]

Once again, they're all wonderful and choosing just one submission is a nearly impossible task. Thank you all for showing us your work.

 

[William Rogers]

Yes, all are good tough decision

 

[Bruno Kudrecki]

It was a tough decision,so I let my wife decide.

 

[Bill Boehme]

I considered allowing each person up to eight votes. But, that might lead to an eight-way tie.

 

[Bill Boehme]

The poll is now closed. Congratulations to the winner of the July 2023 challenge, Robert Henrickson. Thanks to the eight forum members who participated in the challenge. You are all winners. And thanks to the forum members who participated by voting.

 

[Bernie Hrytzak]

Congrats to Robert for creating his 'out of the box' bowl 'out of a round box'!

 

[Michael Anderson]

Nice one Bob, congrats on the win!!

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Congratulations Bob! I know you can pull off interesting pieces from my time talking with you!! You definitely think outside the box!

 

[Lou Jacobs]

We’ll done Robert! If we had been granted two votes, you would have gotten one of mine! But congrats to everyone for a collection of well done, beautiful pieces!

 

[Vincent Vogel]

Congratulations Robert. Nice original design. All entries were nice.

 

[R Henrickson]

Thank you to all who voted! All of the submissions were fine turnings. It was an interesting challenge.

 

[Russ Braun]

Congratulations to all who participated! Excellent take on the challenge Robert, very novel!!

 

[Jon Shull]

Can you point me to a good video of how this is done? These look incredible. Nice work!

 

[R Henrickson]

Can you point me to a good video of how this is done? These look incredible. Nice work!

Thank you! There isn't a video. I don't do videos, only turn, teach, and do demos. The curved emerging bowl form is my own development. Elements of the underlying multiaxis turning method derive from an article in AW by Brendan Stemp.

 

[Bill Boehme]

If you look at this video, at about the six-minute mark where he has completed making the half-sphere, instead of flattening the face of the block, make it a curved surface. This means that you must plan ahead and leave enough material on the block so that you will be able to have a curved surface. Think of the half-sphere sitting at the bottom of a large bowl.