Alright folks, I am posting this tutorial to someone on another site, but also is member of this site. I am actually directing most of my comments to him, but I believe I make comments to others viewing and commenting. Here is a picture of the bowl blank before mounting. I'm trying to give him direction on making a footed bowl with an Ogee shape with a pedestal foot because of the general shape of the blank..
My picture tutorial starts here. The wood to be turned is a half log Mesquite blank thart is almost symmetrically round. It also was stabilized across some cracks.
Okie dokie Mikie, here is a tutorial from the start after rounding the blank. It is right now 5:03 pm. I started this about 4:15pm. It’s taken me about 15 minutes to get the pictures downloaded and then resized for Lumberjocks to accept them.
This first pic shows the half log that has been rounded. It also has a couple dowels in it, but they will disappear.
The next 2 pics shows the contour of the log. If you notice, my Chuck Plate is what’s holding it in at the headstock, and my live center is keeping it between centers. I call both the LC and CP “My” because I made both. I did some cutting on the face of the bowl as I wanted to see what kind of depth there would be for the bowl, and how tall the foot would be.
The next 2 pictures should show where the bowl ends, and the foot begins. Notice the area where bark used to be. That will be removed when I start the cut from the middle towards the foot.
Just for S&G’s, I tried to make it look somewhat like yours did at the beginning.
The foot is starting to get down to dimension. That’s what I was trying to have you arrive at when I kept saying to remove the crack. Of course, there is much more to be done to refine all this.
The bulge has been removed, and now it’s time to start defining the bottom contour of the bowl. Just turn to the foot and stop. Repeat until you think the contour is right.
I don’t know if you can see the pencil mark at the tenon area. The tenon and foot OD has been determined, and will get that done.
More below.
My picture tutorial starts here. The wood to be turned is a half log Mesquite blank thart is almost symmetrically round. It also was stabilized across some cracks.
Okie dokie Mikie, here is a tutorial from the start after rounding the blank. It is right now 5:03 pm. I started this about 4:15pm. It’s taken me about 15 minutes to get the pictures downloaded and then resized for Lumberjocks to accept them.
This first pic shows the half log that has been rounded. It also has a couple dowels in it, but they will disappear.
The next 2 pics shows the contour of the log. If you notice, my Chuck Plate is what’s holding it in at the headstock, and my live center is keeping it between centers. I call both the LC and CP “My” because I made both. I did some cutting on the face of the bowl as I wanted to see what kind of depth there would be for the bowl, and how tall the foot would be.
The next 2 pictures should show where the bowl ends, and the foot begins. Notice the area where bark used to be. That will be removed when I start the cut from the middle towards the foot.
Just for S&G’s, I tried to make it look somewhat like yours did at the beginning.
The foot is starting to get down to dimension. That’s what I was trying to have you arrive at when I kept saying to remove the crack. Of course, there is much more to be done to refine all this.
The bulge has been removed, and now it’s time to start defining the bottom contour of the bowl. Just turn to the foot and stop. Repeat until you think the contour is right.
I don’t know if you can see the pencil mark at the tenon area. The tenon and foot OD has been determined, and will get that done.
More below.
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............. Jerry (in Tucson)