July 2023 Turning Challenge -- Turn an Emerging Bowl

[Bill Boehme]

The turning challenge for the month of July 2023 is to turn an emerging bowl. If you are not familiar with emerging bowls, you can Google "emerging bowl woodturning". Here are examples of a couple of emerging bowls in the forum gallery posted by Dick Koch, a member of my club, the Woodturners of North Texas.

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And, here is a video by Mike Peace showing one way to make an emerging bowl. There's more than one way to skin a cat to accomplish this task and you will be able to find several other Youtube videos.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvxjxhnaXI

For the purposes of this challenge, an emerging bowl shall be turned on two orthogonal axes (90°) from a solid block of wood that will be cut in half on a bandsaw (or two blocks joined with a paper glue joint, hot-melt glue joint, or other suitable temporary means of holding). The final emerging bowl shall be one continuous piece of wood without any glued-together parts. This means no winged bowls and no not something that looks like an unfinished roughed-out bowl. You must use either traditional handheld turning tools (gouges, chisels, and scrapers) and/or carbide-tipped handheld turning tools. You may not use any kind of rotary cutter or sphere-turning jig.

And finally, the fine print from the official AAW Forum legal consultants -- Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe:

• Only one entry per person and one main photo of your emerging bowl. A departure from the past -- you may also include one close-up detail photo.
• Entries must be posted in this thread.
• The deadline for posting entries is midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 26, 2023.
• As always, this is a turning contest, not a "moldy oldie" photo contest, so in fairness to everybody, make sure your work is something you have made since this challenge was issued on July 3, 2023.
• You may not post any photos of your entry in this month’s challenge in any other thread or in the gallery until the voting has ended and a winner has been declared.
• Voting will take place from July 27, 2023, through midnight UTC on July 31, 2023.
• Solicitation of votes will result in disqualification.
• The winner might have to pass a lie detector test before collecting the prizes. Good luck, have fun, make shavings, and let the chips fall where they may!!

 

[Pat Harris]

Is there more than one form of an Emerging Bowl? I.e bowl coming thru a wing or similar to the Jimmy Clews oriental bow/box.
Pat

 

[Bill Boehme]

Is there more than one form of an Emerging Bowl? I.e bowl coming thru a wing or similar to the Jimmy Clews oriental bow/box.
Pat

It might depend on who you ask, but for the purpose of this challenge, see the pictures that I posted where the bowl is emerging laterally from the block of wood. Also, the instructions that I gave (see the quote below) don't leave much wiggle room. The intent of the challenge is to have a project that nudges people out of their comfort zone just a bit, even though this really isn't difficult.

For the purposes of this challenge, an emerging bowl shall be turned on two orthogonal axes (90°) from a solid block of wood that will be cut in half on a bandsaw (or two blocks joined with a paper glue joint, hot-melt glue joint, or other suitable temporary means of holding). The final emerging bowl shall be one continuous piece of wood without any glued-together parts. This means no winged bowls and no not something that looks like an unfinished roughed-out bowl. You must use either traditional handheld turning tools (gouges, chisels, and scrapers) and/or carbide-tipped handheld turning tools. You may not use any kind of rotary cutter or sphere-turning jig.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Are we allowed to do a set of bowls?

 

[Bill Boehme]

Are we allowed to do a set of bowls?

When you cut it in half you'll have two bowls in work so if you want to have both finished bowls in the picture that would be great.

 

[Victor Otnelchenko]

Emerging ash wood bowl.

 

[Gabriel Hoff]

Here is my entry. A set of two emerging bowls, one in Black Cherry and the other in Spalted Tamarind...

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

I never seem to be in position to do these challenges but this month shows some time and a project I have wanted to do for a while. These are cherry with Watco danish finish.

 

[Anne Ogg]

This was a fun project, and much easier than I anticipated. My first time doing a challenge. Extra photo for detail.

 

[Charles Cadenhead]

I never seem to be in position to do these challenges but this month shows some time and a project I have wanted to do for a while. These are cherry with Watco danish finish.

Gerald did you turn yours as a box?

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

Started as near square and turned the outside of bowl on the end . Then glue to sacrificial face plate to turn inside. Think it was a Mike Waldt video.

 

[Lou Jacobs]

Here’s my entry from a black cherry limb. The overall width of the limb is 4 3/4” and the outer diameter of the bowl is 3 3/16”. Cashews were added for scale, (and because I like cashews!).

 

[Bill Boehme]

Cashews were added for scale, (and because I like cashews!).

It's always good to make a sacrificial offering to the woodturning gods.

 

[Crash T Dummy]

Cashews were added for scale, (and because I like cashews!).

... and, besides, there's no rule against chumming.

 

[Darryn Achall]

Grabbed a dry cherry log from the woodpile. Turned a hemisphere in the end grain and split it down the pith on bandsaw. The other half looks more interesting, but I didn't have time to finish it before the due date.

 

[Bernie Hrytzak]

The turning challenge for the month of July 2023 is to turn an emerging bowl. If you are not familiar with emerging bowls, you can Google "emerging bowl woodturning". Here are examples of a couple of emerging bowls in the forum gallery posted by Dick Koch, a member of my club, the Woodturners of North Texas.

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And, here is a video by Mike Peace showing one way to make an emerging bowl. There's more than one way to skin a cat to accomplish this task and you will be able to find several other Youtube videos.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOvxjxhnaXI

For the purposes of this challenge, an emerging bowl shall be turned on two orthogonal axes (90°) from a solid block of wood that will be cut in half on a bandsaw (or two blocks joined with a paper glue joint, hot-melt glue joint, or other suitable temporary means of holding). The final emerging bowl shall be one continuous piece of wood without any glued-together parts. This means no winged bowls and no not something that looks like an unfinished roughed-out bowl. You must use either traditional handheld turning tools (gouges, chisels, and scrapers) and/or carbide-tipped handheld turning tools. You may not use any kind of rotary cutter or sphere-turning jig.

And finally, the fine print from the official AAW Forum legal consultants -- Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe:

• Only one entry per person and one main photo of your emerging bowl. A departure from the past -- you may also include one close-up detail photo.
• Entries must be posted in this thread.
• The deadline for posting entries is midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on July 26, 2023.
• As always, this is a turning contest, not a "moldy oldie" photo contest, so in fairness to everybody, make sure your work is something you have made since this challenge was issued on July 3, 2023.
• You may not post any photos of your entry in this month’s challenge in any other thread or in the gallery until the voting has ended and a winner has been declared.
• Voting will take place from July 27, 2023, through midnight UTC on July 31, 2023.
• Solicitation of votes will result in disqualification.
• The winner might have to pass a lie detector test before collecting the prizes. Good luck, have fun, make shavings, and let the chips fall where they may!!

Hard maple with tung oil finish. (Part one of Hans Weissflog Style)

 

[R Henrickson]

One piece of wood, turned on two mutually perpendicular axes, but with some curved rather than flat faces. Hard maple, 7 1/4" wide, 2" high

 

[Bill Boehme]

The July turning challenge is now closed to any further entries. I will get to work setting up the poll.