4 BEST ways Professional Woodturners use to MOUNT bowls to the lathe. Wish I knew before I started

and I can I can pull on that just pull my weight and it's not going to cut off that Chuck so the first thing I want to show you is the Chuck screw so it looks like this and this is a drill bit that I've taped to the depth of the screw that I use and that brings the piece of Timber nice and flat onto the front of the Chuck so when I'm mounting the Chuck screw into the Chuck my main goal is if you see the back of the Jaws just here the back of the Chuck Jaws I want the shoulder of the wood screw just here this flat section here the Chuck Jaws sit there and this sits behind the Chuck Jaws into that shoulder so when I put it on the chuck it'll go in there like that and it'll meet the back of the chuckles so when I place the Chuck screw the wood screw into this Chuck Jaws and then I feel I've got the back of the wood screw I tighten it up and you can see there where that shoulder is resting up against the back of the Chuck Jaws so when I go to mount the bowl blank onto the Chuck screw I turn the lathe on have it running low I present the bowl the hole up to the Chuck screw and it will slowly start feeding itself on I've got my left hand underneath holding it from turning my right hand gives extra support and it just speeds itself on a little bit more speed and just before it binds on to the thread and reaches the front of the Chuck some people some people that are more experienced that like that use Chuck screws all the time we'll just feed it on if you've ever seen uh Richard Raffin or a professional wood turner feed it onto the Chuck screw they'll just let it wind on and then they'll let it go until you get used to it just I suggest do it like this just block off the spindle and then bring the bowl up and then wind it on nice and tight so that is the wood screw so this is the Glenn Lucas remounting face plate mine looks a little second hand a bit like what's that what's that guy on the car turns back in the with the bolts and the neck and the big stitches you know they bring him back to life looks a bit alive first thing you want to do is bring is bring it to the face plate yet again and then giving that a clean winding to touch the hand wheel on and then just giving it a light flick at the end and when I do that I Go reverse so wheel comes towards me and then the face of the spindle whatever I've got in there the chuckle this goes the opposite way you will need your tail stock and Tool rest now just quickly before I continue always use a cup Center when you're turning Bowls because the cup this point here is a larger surface area and it won't dig in like your cone Center will your cone Center will keep forcing in you'll keep tightening it up and you'll keep wondering why everything's coming this took me a little while to figure that one let's get about so with this bowl in particular when you're using this method you want to remove this little bit of stuff down the bottom here the little nub so when it's in the bot in the bowl it gets caught out they have a little nub on the bottom of them when they get snapped off from the mother bowl or the main Bowl so there's a couple of ways of removing it these are Cuts Old wheels these ones here and they're this one's up the medium one the blue one it's uh fairly aggressive and this one here is nice and light and easy and they're both on some Grinders if you don't have these don't worry just use your chisel that you've got at home but all you need to do is get your chisel and then slide along there [Music] [Applause] and then knock it off [Applause] like so and then that forms a nice flat surface when you you can use your chisel so let me go out and buy more stuff it's Broad and expensive going as it is so you have the end grain facing upwards because the end grain will will be the highest point because the shoulders of the side grain have dropped end grain there now give yourself enough room so just spin some of your tail stock out but this point is imperative don't imperative don't push it all the way home bring over your tourists so when I spin that around you'll see that it's close here and then it's further away there and the reason why I simply not to tighten up your tail stock is because of that exact same is for that exact reason now when you go to move it across if you want to learn how to balance up Live Edge bowls I've made a video I'll put that in the description as well if that's something you're interested bring that towards myself place the tail stock back don't lock it off and then undo that yep spin it around and there's a bit more of a gap there I tend to place my thumb it touches there and there's a fair bit of a gap there so I'm just going to shift it towards myself shifted it smidge back there oh look at that that will be if you really really want to for example if it's a you know it's a prized piece of Timber and you don't want to lose a lot or you've done what I've done I made it too thin balancing up the bowl will save a lot of material and I'm pretty happy with that it's about three or four mil out tighten it up and then you're away and then you're good to go that's the reason why I really like this method is because you have the chance to balance up your Bowl before you turn off the sides and waste a lot of material on one side compared to the other so this is the Glenn Lucas remounting plate and that's how remount Bowl blanks with this method so the next method is the tuck tile stock method and I bring the vm100 Chuck onto the lathe give it that snap keep the metal nice and bind together using the Cup sticker again I'm going to bring up the tail stock what I like to do with this method is open the Chuck the Chuck Jaws as wide as I can open them wide so to give me a greater surface area on the inside of the bowl so the there it is thank you [Music] so if that ever happens and your Chuck pops out like so just place it back in find where it went past and then wind it back in slot it back into place so obviously I could use one of my larger Chucks but not everyone's got larger Chucks I just want to use something that's fairly Universal that we can all use open the Chuck up nice and wide I place the chuck on you can remove the base but I've already shown you how to do that I bring up the tail stock now you can also balance the Bowl on this method as well but it's just you've got to do it both ways so you have to go Plumb you have to go vertical as well as circular so as you turn it I place my thumb on the tool rest I place my thumb on the tourist and bring it around and I'd fluke that I've absolutely Jagged it but eyeball it down I know the rim will walk but just go to where it looks nice and even running behind the Chuck or running with the Chuck so what I'm saying is use the back of the chuck use whatever you can whatever resource you have to your disposal to mount your bowl Plumb and true as true as you can so what I'm saying is use the back of the Chuck as the bowl and the rim to guide you so if it looks a little you've got a little bit too much silver or whatever color it is on your lathe just adjust the bowl where it needs to go until it's running nice and true for yourself so that's all you need to do there so eye it up running nice Tighten Up Your Tail stock everything off it's quite a sturdy way to do it [Applause] bring out the speed that's quite a safe way how to do it let's make sure make sure everything is locked off and safe for yourself okay if you can see there when I've just done that if what I was getting back to earlier see how I remove I've removed the sheen so that was the wood glue from the end grain that I've put on I think I've actually just painted this whole Bowl but it actually makes it stand out even more I've shaved that side off but I've still got enough material there I'm not removing a lot of material to start making my way around there to True up the other side so that's why balancing your bowls and making them spin true is really important to not waste our precious resource so now we'll move on to the Richard Raffin method is if you've had a core or a bowl previously turned and you've let them dry out or you don't have a bowl coring system and you start your bowl blanks by holding them or forming a Tenon and then hollowing them out so just make sure the base is running fairly flat before you put it on the Chuck jaws and it doesn't bottom out in the face of the chuckles so what I mean by that is if the bottom of the bowl has a hump in them and you could use your chisel a your sand or anything like that to try and make that bowl nice and flat or you could just start it like this bring up a tail stock make it flat and and sand that little nub off and then remount it in there I'm just going to mount it straight into the Chuck Jaws and I learned this off Glenn Lucas when he tightens his Chuck Jaws up on any piece he has the grain flowing in between where he will tighten the jaws of the Chuck up so Hand inside the bowl pressing against the Chuck jaws and I can see already that it's not bottoming out through looking down inside the Chuck Jaws I wonder how many times I've said Chuck Jaws let's take off the tail stop it and what you'll need for this is your spear chisel and your ball gouge or a spindle gouge whatever you prefer to use when you're turning I've got a little 12 mil bulk edge here and a one inch 25 skew and I've got a 45 degree bevel on that with the heel removed on these bulgars first thing is we want to Trill up the face of the bowl and then we're going to make an indent with our skew or take it down a little bit with the gouge make an indent with that skew and then we'll be laughing and then we'll be able to turn it around and then expand the Jaws into it so first thing is turn the bowl make sure it's not going to hit our beautiful tool rest we're going to push into the timber because if you ride the timber back like so you'll just ride any indentations and yes so turn it on FFA shield down previously you can see how much it's warped out of shape over grass grip and we're just going to push in I'm using this side of the bevel just here I'm using this edge of the bevel there speed up a bit all right so we've cleaned up the front there this is a piece of mango Timber and you can see that it's had some bugs in it now I'm going to make a clean cut on the inside of the bowl there make sure I'm running running to Center which I am there slide on pinky supporting the back of the Cutting Edge there handle away that should be enough it gives me a pencil never be tempted to put your hand in when it's spinning the clear shavings so now inside there we've got a bit of an angle and I'm not quite happy with it so I want to make sure there's a little bit of more of a Groove down here into this into this shoulder into here into that shoulder so I'm just going to get my skew you don't have to you could just get away with it with your bowl gouge if you wanted to just use your bowl gouge just bring your handle out away from you and press that tip into there I'll show you how to do that handle that away support the back of the Cutting Edge and when I'm turning this I'm looking on the other side because I if I put my head over there I'll get in your way but I'm looking on that side as well because I can see how much material I need to take out so if the shavings ever get in your way so you're turning away and the shading is getting your way keep an eye on the opposite side [Applause] a bit more speed I'm running at 850 RPM and that'll do it right there so that is nice and clean if you wanted to use your skew chisel chisel to get more of a cleaner angle I'll show you up so one inch skew there have it float on the tool rest and a way of gauging whether you're going to be cutting on Center is you can just lay your tool flat on the rest and see if it's lining up with the center of the bowl get your skew chisel finger over the front have the tool running underneath your underneath your arm it gives you that extra strength in holding the tool tip facing into the bowl turn it on place it on the fillet I'm looking over there again because I can't see and then just push it in [Applause] there you go so all you need to do from there is remove the tail sock put your beautiful yarders away that's why I like my little trolley take the ball off and now when you turn it around you will expand to the inside of that shoulder that you've just created hold the back of your bowl expand your jaws and you can see why you might need a a larger set of Jaws if you're doing bigger bowls expand the city of Jaws place it in until you can feel you can feel the outside of your jaws here so as you as you can see there the outside of modules are resting up into that shoulder that we created with the gouge and the skew chisel so it's in there and then all you need to do is expand your jaws into it tighten it up when you're doing that have your hand on the other side pushing against pushing it against it holding it nice and tight and I can pull on that just pull my weight and it's not going to cut off that Chuck okay if you would like still you could bring up your tail stock and put it in the back for extra security and safety if that's what you prefer to do so let's turn it on and see how it goes so that's looking really nice so from there you would form up your Tenon and then reshape the outside of your bowl flip it around put it into the Chuck and then finish up the inside put a finish on it and then you're on to the next one and wiring it out taking off the Tenon later on and if you would like to know how to remount Live Edge bowls I'll link a video just here so go check that out and it's called balancing your bowls thanks very much and I'll talk to you all directly cheers bye

Channel: Kerry Corney

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Length: 17min 11sec (1031 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 30 2023