Coring: Two Burl Bowls: woodturning with Sam Angelo

now a few days ago my friend Jared who lives near 10 sleep Wyoming brought me some boxelder I tell you what it's great wood and turn a little bit yesterday I'm gonna turn a bowl out of this particular piece a box elder and it's a very nice round burl so it's pretty symmetrical and the twist is going to be I'm going to start it with a faceplate you know a lot of guys don't have all the chucks and accessories as some of us have nothing wrong with the faceplate I use that once in a while so let's go on to the main event so you're wondering about the Hat well you know the other day I was down in the dumps so I picked up this hat what's that Klaus wondering where you get them hats oh man that's cold let's let's go over to the lathe and get busy well I have my faceplate all attached I've got six ancient order screws going into the top of the bowl which is going to be the inside of the bowl and I'm probably going to cord this out at least get one more piece out of this so here's another view of that big hefty faceplate on there so I'll wind that onto my leg now ordinarily I would use a screw Chuck and I might bring my tail stock up for a little additional security with this setup I'm not going to use the tail stock I'm going to just put it on my one-way here tighten that down gray securely now the first thing you might be asking about is the bark on this this is not very attractive compared to the wood underneath that bark this is boxelder rural and I tried taking that off of the screw driver who is not successful so I would ordinarily do that but it's pretty much stuck on there I think this wood is fairly green which is a good thing so I'm going to take the large bowl gouge right here a big handle and this particular gouge is a Trent Bosch tool if you're not familiar with Trent Bosch he and limbs in Loveland Colorado and has a great website you can find you just tread Bosch probably calm lots of tools and I got a lot of my hollowing tools from Trent wash and this is one of his gadgets so let's get busy I've got my lathe turn completely off so I'm going to just turn the dial up slowly I don't really need to be turning all that fast here that's 415 rpm so let's just do a little bit of training okay here's my Nova Chuck with some trees jaws and I'm going to close those up just about all the way take a measurement with my vernier calipers that's right in three and a quarter inches on there so the first thing I want to do is establish my tenon if something should happen that prevents me from continuing in this position I'll have my tenon ready and I can just reverse it if I need to now I'm reading 540 rpm and the lane is vibrating just a little bit so I think that's about the maximum speed I can turn right now now the other day I found this shot pencil that I turned I've got a little bit inlay in there I believe that's okay let's get some spalting that's pretty cool if you've never done a shot pencil like that so I'm right there I just need to be just a little bit bigger than that line so I'm going to continue with my spigot and I'm going to do that a little bit with a parting tool now I'm leaving the sound in as I establish the tenon and just a second begin working on the bottom of this piece it's pretty difficult and it's really uneven so I'm kind of riding a bucking bronco here there's a nice drop type just trying to scrape off the high points of that bottom section yeah I've got my speeded pretty well-established at the right dimension I'll work on that little dip I'm going to go around the side of this bowl and take all this bark off now as I work on this area of the bowl I'm compressing a hundred and five seconds of video footage into about 20 because it was a lot more exciting when I did it then when I'm looking at it right now so let's move forward on this we've got a little bit of water spritz on this I'm not real thrilled about the way the bark is showing through here I'm not going to get a very big bowl and I may not be able to core that the decision you have to make at this point is how much of this bark you'll leave in I take all this away right here it's going to really reduce the size of this bowl here's a bunch up here I can leave some of that I could fill it with some turquoise or something else so I'm going to take the rest of this down to where I want it and make some decisions there at one point I'll make right now is I'm really going to rough turn this outside Bowl I'm doing some refining cuts in a shearing orientation to kind of get it in the ballpark but I'm going to work on it after it is dried as well this bowl has some spectacular burl figure image and I attempt to leave a lot of this in there and try to make it a little bit more artistic some really pretty stuff going on there I'm gonna fine-tune my spigot and I'm going to use my detail gouge to do that and then I'm going to reverse this I can always do something to the profile of this bowl later on now the last thing I like to do and turning my spigot or my tenon is I like to use my detail gouge and I like to undercut it from this direction and fill my tool around on that flat area there and undercut that in that dress and I'm guaranteed a secure connection with my Chuck I did not have my tail stock up so I don't have a point there and I'm going to need that if I have a reverse chuck cat and I so I'm going to take the parting tool and just sort of establish that a little bit of a point right there and we're all good to go so I'm going to reverse this and I'll work on the other side of the bowl okay I've got my bowl reversed into my three inch jaws and I'm going to face off the front of this you know just make some decisions about what I'm going to do next well here is yet another uneven surface and probably the best way to do this and level this off is just to do a draw cut which is a little bit of a cut and a little bit of a scrape just take the high points off and get to the point where you can make some good push cuts on this piece of wood it is a lovely lovely piece of wood it's just amazing and my thanks to Jarrod up there in ten sleep Wyoming here I'm doing a back cut towards the center of the bowl and that's a proper cut all right I've got this level off so much I'm going to get my coring tool set up and I'm going to core a whole bowl out of that I think I can do that pretty easily so let me get set up for that what I'm using here is the McNaughton system and I've got the tool rest set up here and the first thing you need to do when you're touring with this particular system is set your tool right to the center line right there and you lock that in I'm going to come back to a position I think I can get a biggest bowl out of there without messing it up now coring systems are not cheap but if you're selling bowls or giving them away as gifts at Christmas it's a great tool to have you can really save a lot of money and save the planet by not just turning the inside of that bowling shavings I've turned probably a few hundred bowls like this and it's well worth it you know I'm kind of binding up in here so longer widen my curve and I think I've got more room on the outside of the biggest bowl so I'm going to maybe adjust my banjo a little bit right there now these particular tools work with a broom they're better off cutting keep a good burr on there so I'm going to just take my hone try to try to touch that up there I got the tool upside down I'm just drinking some passes with the diamond on all right let's try it again all right I think I'm getting real close when you're right about in this position just test your bowl I think I can probably rip that out let me move this back a little bit there we are okay a little bit of burning we can live with that and a good profile on the inside of the biggest bowl I'm just going to clean this up and make a decision whether I'm going to finish turn this now or put her way let it dry a little bit all right it's very well worth Corinne I can sell this little bowl and buy another cutter for that system what I've done here on the inside of the smaller bowl I've developed an expansion recess for 2-inch jaws and I can simply put that in some 2-inch jaws put a tenon on the bottom of that and turn that bowl now at this point I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with this bowl it really seems fairly dry and with a burl it's a little more forgiving when you go to dry these it probably won't split as much as just some straight grain wood so I'm going to just threw this up in here and maybe just to let it sit for a day or so and my turning speed is right at 800 of RPM now here I am truing up the rim and this is kind of a tricky spot you have to be careful with this because you get a bad catch here it's not going to be good now I got to be honest when I chord this bowl out I got really lucky or I did a good job I'm not sure which of getting a nice even surface all the way down to the center I don't have a lot of you know ridges and that sort of thing on the inside of this bowl so it doesn't take much to just true this up and I we will put this in the bag of shavings and it'll be a rough turn bowl that I'll complete at a later date Hey right now my bowl is about an inch thick right in here and that's a good dimension for drying this your rough turning it and drying it it's about a 12 inch Bowl so I need to leave it that thick let's take it out of the Chuck and look at the bottom there's the bottom of my bowl I've got some more conclusions on there and I'm going to dry this and then I'm going to put it back on my lathe and finish that little bowl let me show you what I'll do with a small bowl to establish the tenon now I found a set of jaws it would work for this procedure again I've got that expansion recess on the top of the smallest bowl and I need to establish a tenon right here so I can work on that bowl so I'm going to put that in these jaws this is a Vic mark chuck and these are the hefty two-inch jaws and there are a number of ways you can do this you can do this expansion recess or you could actually do a screw Chuck just drill a hole in the top of that bowl so determine out and just see how how to balance this is and it's running just about perfectly the surface is a little bit uneven so we turn the speed up and put a Tanner on there now I'm going to set this to just a little bit over two inches which will fit my smaller jaws and right there better to be lucky than good okay right there I'm going to establish a tenon there and I cleaned up the outside of my smaller bowl now my tenon on there and this just happens to Fifty's jaws right here so I'm going to use that got lucky again and I'm going to just take the inside of this bowl out real quick and that'll be the end of this video I'll show you these bowls in an upcoming video let's crank up the speed here now I'm starting by just facing off this bowl I like to have nice clean surface to work from now through the magic of television and editing I'm speeding up a couple minutes of video to show you the last elements of turning this small bowl here I'm using my traditional bowl gouge well there we have it two bowls for the price of one not a bad deal Corning is really cool and it's going to save you a lot of money and a lot of wasted wood it's awesome especially if you're doing craft fairs and that sort of thing I'll keep you updated on these little bowls in the future so thank you once again and go get me another hat what do you think

Channel: WYOMINGWOODTURNER

Views: 902,233

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Keywords: bowls, woodturning, Turning, lesson, learn, how to, turn a bowl, coring, coring a bowl, burl wood, box elder, acer, teach, school, wood trees, wood, trees, lathe, lathe work, demonstration, demo

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Length: 18min 33sec (1113 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 09 2016