Just cut this silver maple burl !

[Robert Lindstadt]

I just cut this burl, it’s a fresh cut piece, so it’s wet. I want to rough out a bowl, but wondering the best way to put it on the lathe and which side would you mount? Start with the bark side or the cut side, wondering what you would do if you had it
I have a screw on faceplate, so I would start with that.

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[Bill Blasic]

Start with the cut side and then when turned around core it.

 

[Odie]

If you see highly figured areas, you will want to bring that out in the final turning.

It's easiest to use the flat side first, but there are times when you might want to do it the hard way!

Oh BTW, glad to see you are using a screw center faceplate. (Some call it a screw center chuck.)

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[Dean Center]

Robert, I'm not familiar with your turning experience, so please forgive me if this is 'beneath you.'

Are you asking whether to turn it with a natural edge, i.e. bark side is the top, or in the conventional manner for a utility bowl, i.e. bark side is the bottom?
What size is your blank?
Is this wood 'valuable', such that you want to get as many bowls out of it as possible, and are considering coring?

If you mount it with a face plate or screw chuck, however the flat side is cut will determine the features that will be included and the quality of the finished bowl. Did you cut the blank, or recut the flat side, to suit your idea for the best possibly bowl? If someone else cut it, do you think they did a good job?
If you mount it between centers, you can adjust the orientation of the wood as you begin turning which allows you to get the best possible finished piece--not the biggest finished piece, but the best. To do this, your lathe and blank need to be a good match in size, and you have to be comfortable cutting wood-air-wood-air.

 

[Robert Lindstadt]

Robert, I'm not familiar with your turning experience, so please forgive me if this is 'beneath you.'

Are you asking whether to turn it with a natural edge, i.e. bark side is the top, or in the conventional manner for a utility bowl, i.e. bark side is the bottom?
What size is your blank?
Is this wood 'valuable', such that you want to get as many bowls out of it as possible, and are considering coring?

If you mount it with a face plate or screw chuck, however the flat side is cut will determine the features that will be included and the quality of the finished bowl. Did you cut the blank, or recut the flat side, to suit your idea for the best possibly bowl? If someone else cut it, do you think they did a good job?
If you mount it between centers, you can adjust the orientation of the wood as you begin turning which allows you to get the best possible finished piece--not the biggest finished piece, but the best. To do this, your lathe and blank need to be a good match in size, and you have to be comfortable cutting wood-air-wood-air.

I’ve only been turning for three years. But most of what I turn had been non burl blanks.
I have a 12 21 vs jet so I have limits to that size.
I just trying to get ideas of what more experienced people would do!
I have no problem cutting air wood air, also I have access to to other pieces so if I screw it up no problem .
You could private message me also