Bowl and some fruit

[Steven]

A goncalo alves bowl finished with some advice from friends on here.

And I took the opportunity to try my hand with some fruit, just made with some scrap pine to try and make a working chuck for them, and thanks to the TUT I found on here.

I am happy enough to put me name to the bowl, any suggestions on the best way to do this, permanent marker/pen on the base before the finish is applied?

 

[CHJ]

That's a very significant achievement in such a short time, well done.

Marking, some folks with good writing skills use pyrography, I personally make do with a fine Rite-4-All or CD pen to mark wood type and date.

 

[myturn]

Nice bowl and the fruit's a very good shape too.

Difficult to tell from the photo but it looks like you mirrored the outside shape on the inside in the end?

 

[loz]

Not keen on the bowl shape but nice finish

But


Super fruit !!! They are fab !

 

[Bodrighy]

All looks good to me. I can't for the life of me do fruit, always get the shape wrong for some reason so can truly admire yours. Beautiful.

Pete

 

[Steven]

Thanks for the comments, I am not sure about the shape myself but the better half likes it. The shape follows the top 1/4 so it looks like it is about 5mm thick but changes into a single curve the rest of the way down. I think you call it an Ogee curve.

I have tactically arranged the fruit to hid the learning sections. I did take me one or two tries to get the the chuck right. I also took the advice to cut deeper than I liked for the cores, it makes a big difference to the over all look. I like the idea of having each different, I do not think that's everyone's idea but I did toy with the idea of finding an apple ect and making a template from that to get the same each time. I have been informed that I have to make some bananas this weekend. As I do not use a lathe for this I am considering rebelling :twisted:

 

[mpax356]

Bananas are very fast and easy on the Bandsaw.

 

[PsyMan]

I could cut banana's on my bandsaw with the rip fence until I tuned it a bit