Tinbasher
Established Member
So I finally got down to actually turning something. The last time I turned anything it was at school and it was a partly finished bowl, unfinished because I knocked the tip of my thumb off and blood stopped play.
I mounted the sycamore blank on a screw chuck and turned the outside. I was reasonably pleased with the result, the shape felt good, the "decoration" less so but it disguises a last second dig in!
I turned the mortice on the bottom to take the chuck and mounted the bowl relatively easily and started on the inside. I had got this far 40 years ago so i guess I was a bit cautious. Then BANG the wing of my bowl gouge dug in and the bowl flew over my left shoulder!
After a change of underwear I dug the bowl out from under the bench and the chuck had torn right out of the bowl ripping away the mounting mortice.
But I really enjoyed myself and no blood was shed!
I was able to remount the bowl on my screw chuck and turn the broken base off and have started on a new mounting mortice which will be deeper and more accurate. Any comments on the bowl so far as it got welcome but be gentle
Tin
I mounted the sycamore blank on a screw chuck and turned the outside. I was reasonably pleased with the result, the shape felt good, the "decoration" less so but it disguises a last second dig in!
I turned the mortice on the bottom to take the chuck and mounted the bowl relatively easily and started on the inside. I had got this far 40 years ago so i guess I was a bit cautious. Then BANG the wing of my bowl gouge dug in and the bowl flew over my left shoulder!
After a change of underwear I dug the bowl out from under the bench and the chuck had torn right out of the bowl ripping away the mounting mortice.
But I really enjoyed myself and no blood was shed!
I was able to remount the bowl on my screw chuck and turn the broken base off and have started on a new mounting mortice which will be deeper and more accurate. Any comments on the bowl so far as it got welcome but be gentle
Tin