Hello turners, as I wade my way through this wonderful hobby of turning bowls I'm learning a lot. I've been turning(learning how to) bowls now for about three weeks and love every minute behind the lathe. Thought I'd give you and update on my progress. I have been turning green maple bowls and I thought to myself lets try to turn a kiln dried wood bowl.....
last weekend I was at WC store and they have a box of kiln dried hardwood cut offs for sale so much a pound. I bought some Desert Ironwood 3"x3" x18" and a piece of dark wood 3"x3"x9".(Could not identify the dark wood)
Anyway, I cut and glued the wood to make two bowl blanks 3"x6" square. Had to mix the two pieces on the 2nd bowl to make the blank....
I made a few mistakes but this is a learning process, kind of self teaching like it was with my penturning. ...
Any comments my friends will be welcome and also things you see that I need to work on will be very helpful.
Happy turning. PS, excuse the photos, I can do better than this. When I develop my skills in bowl turning, I have a photo tent all set up for showing in a gallery setting.....
last weekend I was at WC store and they have a box of kiln dried hardwood cut offs for sale so much a pound. I bought some Desert Ironwood 3"x3" x18" and a piece of dark wood 3"x3"x9".(Could not identify the dark wood)
Anyway, I cut and glued the wood to make two bowl blanks 3"x6" square. Had to mix the two pieces on the 2nd bowl to make the blank....
I made a few mistakes but this is a learning process, kind of self teaching like it was with my penturning. ...
Any comments my friends will be welcome and also things you see that I need to work on will be very helpful.
Happy turning. PS, excuse the photos, I can do better than this. When I develop my skills in bowl turning, I have a photo tent all set up for showing in a gallery setting.....