Woodturning | $120 Bowl From Scrap Wood - A New Way to Make a Bowl From a Board / Economy Bowl

hi welcome back to the shop thanks for stopping by um this week's video is going to be a big time experiment um i generate a lot of shorts in my shop and make cutting boards and things like that so i've got a lot of scrap wood kicking around and um i've seen some really interesting designs of people making bowls from aboard their economy bowls as they're called and so i've been holding off on making one for a while until i got a scroll saw my thought was that rather than make my blank in two and cut in half circles on a bandsaw like most people do and then gluing those together and then stacking them and gluing those together i would try to get solid rings which i thought would be easier to work with well this is paduk and yellow heart and madagascar ebony and it's hard it's almost 7 8 of an inch thick and that was a little bit too sassy for my scroll saw so this was the original center of this board the first one came out so so you can see it was a little rough in here but the second one it just i just couldn't get it it was the saw was just traveling all over the place so thankfully i just touched the ebony which is the part i really would have hated to lose so i lost the soccer plus this tiny little thin piece so i was able to save what's left here so i replaced the center with what was there and this is 12 inches square and i've been thinking about how i could do this without having to cut those rings in half and i'll show you what i come up with and i have no idea if it's going to work i'm hopeful that it will but it's two pieces of birch plywood i i glued them together screwed them together center mark center so that my face plate i can screw on here on the other side this is just a test run here with a square on the other side i've laid out where this square will go so this will fit on here like this i've made brackets for each corner which i'm going to drill and bolt so these will be bolted through and the keeper to go on top of it so you'll notice this is a little thicker than the the plywood is three-quarter this is seven eighths so i can use any thickness of board that's three quarters or just a hair larger up to a certain extent i could put washers in here between the bolts to hold this down so all four corners will get a we'll get a guide in the corner a keeper going on the top to hold it in and my thought is when i get this on the lathe um i'll be dead center or very very close to it and so one of the things that i notice that people from other videos have issues with is there they got to go back and glue everything up and then they got to find their center and turn some glue of bottom on it or whatever so what i'm going to do with this is when it's on the lathe if everything works out so i'm going to turn the mortise for my four jaw chuck in this and finish it and then i'm going to cut my first circle with a parting tool then i'll cut my second one third one fourth one however many i'm going to cut and because of the angle that piece that i cut won't be able to get out and it'll be safely nestled in there if it turns out that it's not safe these are going to be bolted and so i can take the bolts of these two for example slide the whole piece out take the rings i've already cut out out of the piece put it back in and keep cutting some more so i'm going to finish putting this thing together and i'm going to bring it back when it's on the lathe and we'll see how it works out okay so i have my faceplate mounted on the back now it's uh it's running really really true the only bit about is just the weight down here actually and very little bit uh just rough cut this on the bandsaw it's pretty close um so i have made these sets of keepers so i made the corner holder and the keeper that goes on top i've numbered them and i've lined them so that i know which way they go so it's repeatable and i've also used those to drill these so these are all made in sets so that all these holes align and i'm always guilty of making these templates and things jigs like this with too low of tolerance and so i have to fight a little bit to get them on and off but this has got quarter inch bolts going all the way through i've got lots of clearance in the back the bolts do stick out a little bit in the back but i'm going to be nowhere near that so note to yourself if you're going to try this make sure that if you do it and you have bolts sticking out to keep your body away from when they're spinning all right so this is the blank it can go on now but then i think hopefully it'll go on now has to be lined up just right to fit okay so that's right down there like that now the reason you need to be so accurate this if you're doing a symmetrical pattern like this if you're out of whack a little bit then this ribbon this this uh strip will be too far to one side this strip will be too far to the inside it won't it won't look symmetrical so i was very very careful with this all the way through the process and hopefully hopefully that'll pay off now the beauty of this is i can take a 12 inch piece of wood now at any time glue it up and put it in the same jig and if i choose to i can take out take these off i can redrill it for eleven tens nines whatever i want to so that's kind of my goal with making this this way it's a little bit of an overkill type thing but i think i think if it works the way the rings are going to come out and the quality of the rings that are going to come out and i'll be able to turn my mortise in the bottom right here perfectly centered i think it's going to be worth the time spent building this so so i'm just going to put these together now so i'm going to do i'll do it off camera i'm just going to slide these in and bolt them up and i'll have everything all bolted up and i'll bring it back and then we'll mark out our we'll mark out our rings all right so what i've got done here now uh this line there's too many circles in here but this line right here is the size i need to turn my mortise and this will be the outside dimension of the base right here and then i'm gonna go every three quarter inches so there's a ring gonna come out here one here one here and one here and possibly another one at the top so we should get seven inch thick times one two three four five six rings so we should be just under just over five inches five and a half inches high for a bowl or so this is really solid i have 100 confidence in this being safe to turn this way so now i need to make a jig that will allow me to cut an angle so i'll show you how i figured out the angle i got that from another video and i cannot find the video i've never heard of the gentleman before who who had the idea for doing that but anyhow i'll show you how that how i did that okay so really quickly in here um the video that i watched again i can't find it for the life of me but um what the gentleman did is he drew a line down the edge of his board and then he measured a space in between and drew a second line which was the same width as the width of the rings that he wanted to cut so in this case i want to cut a three quarter inch wide ring so i'm going to mark two lines parallel three quarters of an inch wide on the edge of this piece and then you and then you draw a diagonal line from one corner on the top side of the board to the other corner on the bottom side of the board and that gives you the angle so if you were putting this on a saw to cut for example you tilt your bed until your saw blade aligned with this diagonal line but in this case i measured it was 42 degrees and again i'm not sure if this is correct or not but it's first time out we're going to give it a try okay so what i've done is i want to make a 42 degree angle cut this way uh between on the outsides of each ring so i've just used this gauge i'm just going to lay it against the block i'm going to set my parting tool on the line and align it then now i know what angle i need to go in and i'm just going to cut these uh one at a time start them i'm only going to start them right now and i am going to use the lathe in reverse because it's easier to work at this angle than it is the other way i'd have to be reaching way out way out here and that's not very comfortable so we're gonna do it this way [Music] so i'm not cutting that all the way through i'm just going to mark it so i know what orientation i need to be on what my line is when i do finally finish these cuts out [Music] so all right so we got those all started now i'm going to turn a mortise in the bottom and finish it up and i'm actually going to finish sand the bottom of this ring so that the bottom of the bowl will be done before i put it on the lathe all right i'm just going to take my tool that i made which has the same angle as my dovetails on it all right so i got my mortars turned i'm going to sand this up and finish it i'm going to sand this ring only i'm not going to get into this ring because if i change this ring at all in terms of angle it's not going to sit on top of this one properly when i go to glue them back up so i'm going to sand out the mortise i'm going to sand the very bottom and then i'll go back and i'll start cutting these rings out from the inside out okay so i've got the bottom all turned out now it's all sanded finished up with yorkshire grit and i'm just going to put a little bit of hamstring high gloss on this and then i'm going to part out these rings the only thing i'm curious about i'm going to go very low rpm the only the only concern that i have is that when i get through the ring is going to bind my parting tool so be really careful go nice and slow and take nice light cut with that and we'll see how it goes [Music] i actually think i should cut quite a bit out of most of them before i finish out one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay that is how i hope that would work excellent so this cannot get away [Music] all right there's all the rings i can get another ring off the outside edge but i think i will do that on the lathe after the fact because it's not going to leave me a lot of i don't think it's going to give me the right angle here you know actually i'm not going to get another ring it's not going to be it's not going to work out [Music] so after the graceful dismount here um i noticed that there was a little bit of tear where the parting tool went through the top and it looked a lot worse than it actually was that's why i'm doing a voiceover because i thought it was really bad at first but it only took a couple passes on the drum sander to fix all right so thankfully the tear was not nearly as bad as what it looked it was really just the piece that was in the center splintered back around so there's very little there's there's no tear out actually a couple passes to the uh the double drum sander everything's good again so i am going to uh to glue these up now i'm just going to set them and orient them by the by the laminations to line these up so they have nice straight rows in the blank and i'll just clamp them to the top and everyone has seen people glue things before so i'm not going to bother you with that or if i do it'll be at very high speed [Music] all right so i got this in a homemade bowl press um my dad my uncle actually made for me it's got a crank on the top here it's a 7 8 threaded rod down through there's normally a bearing that sits right below that brass nut which would have a face on it that would sit on top of this piece of wood or a piece of plywood whatever and it would hold the wood still and put pressure down without putting any torque on the piece uh but we broke that doing uh something with it that we shouldn't have and so this will have to work for now all right so i got this out of the press back on the lathe um the bottom four rings uh the base of the bottom four rings are lined up really well the top ring i think i get off just a tiny bit and it's not bad it's it's you know it's not bad at all actually but my concern is that these rings considering that i started out with you know three quarters of an inch between the lines are much thinner than that um they're only half an inch maybe thick so next time i do one of these i'm going to widen those rings a little bit and it's it's very thin right here so i've got about 3 8 of an inch rough right here at this transition so hopefully i can get this turned down it's going to be a thin walled bowl uh i think i'm going to flare the top out a little bit which i think i can do i think i can do we'll find out but first things first i'm going to get this transition between this first joint done once i get past that and that's okay i think the rest of it's pretty good that's just a straight in cut i've got 5 8 of an inch left in the bottom of this thing pretty well so i can i can make this transition cut decently it's going to be a steeper angle on the bottom though or normally would turn it but that's that's just this design a bowl and it looks like a little bit of way to glue right here but i'm hopeful that that's just a very it's squeezed out on both sides so i'm hoping that there's lots in there anyhow if there's not i will uh put some thick ca in to compensate for that it looks like the lines matched up pretty good and again there's no you won't know for sure until it's uh completely turned all right so apparently that didn't record so it's made my first pass down here um joints look pretty good uh just a little bit more to take off here i am just going to go down the outside and see how this joint is going to work out so i can see what i've got this is the only joint that i'm concerned about this one right here so we'll see what i've got for uh for thickness after i clean up the back side of this go from there i'll move you up top so you can watch that one [Music] bowl gouge on this is just kind of vibrating a little bit so what i did is i put a little bit of oil on this to try and soften this up just a little bit and i'm just going to try and work it with the grain coming inside outside with a scraper and see how that works so i'm going to sharpen up a scraper and we'll see what happens here i know people get a little freaked out when you start going inside the bowls and scrapers but in this case i'm going to go very light it's a very thick scraper hopefully i can take some of this out [Music] now i'm going to go back outside and work this outside down what i've got for them side diameter and then we'll come back to the inside again [Music] so [Music] okay i like that shape and i think i'm good to sand up the outside so i'm gonna get that sanded up off camera all right so i've got this sanded up now the 240. padauk is really porous and the sanding dust that comes off it is really fine and it gets everywhere and you saw when i did the bottom how it bled into the yellow heart so what i've done rather than wipe this down with denatured alcohol and make it wet and just leave it in the pores i'm taking my air hose and i've blown all the pores out and i'm not sure if the camera's picking it up or not but you can see that the you can see this one up the pores are are pretty open here now so um got a kind of an alignment issue here these were lined up really nicely but now that it's finished turned they're just staggered just a tiny bit so um something to work on for the next one anyhow i'm going to use some york sugar on this and uh regular microfine then we'll go back in the inside and and we'll finish up the inside all right we'll put some finish on there now i'm gonna use some hamster sheen high gloss [Music] there we go it's going to give that a minute or two to hard and then i'll start hollowing out the inside again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] all right there we go so i'm gonna sand this the same as the other one and i will bring you back when i'm putting some finish on the inside here okay we're all sanded up here i've got the dust blown out of it so i am going to put some sanding sealer on the inside now that i remembered one way or the other here this is my land sanding sealer [Music] that actually helped clean it up quite a bit and seal it so i'm just going to give that a minute i'm going to put another coat on it [Music] okay it's all dry now so we can get back on give her some regular yorkshire grip then we'll do the micro fine so imagine this video is going quite long so while i'm putting this on just a couple of things actually before i i'll do a lot of this off camera but so this was an experiment in what i hoped would be an easier way or maybe a more accurate way to make these rings for a bowl out of a board and i'm actually happy with how the jig works um what i will do next time though is i will make my rings wider because i did i did wind up with much narrower rings than i thought and that made it a quite a bit more difficult turn than what it would have been had them rings been an extra you know even an eighth of an inch wider so i'll do that differently next time i think what i will also do is put a backer even though this was up against the plywood i think i'll put a backing piece behind the board next time on the faceplate so that when my so that when my parting tool cuts through that i don't get any tear out no it looked when i took those off it looked really really bad but again it wasn't bad at all you can see these rings are still almost 7 8 of an inch thick i only had to make two or three passes on the sander to get them cleaned up again but that's another step and when you do that with those rings you risk having one of those glue joints break again so so a couple things i do differently another thing too is i use a really thin curve i just got it it's a carter and sun's 16th inch parting tool got it from branches and bowls in calgary or branches two bowls in calgary and really happy with it um i'd be leery about doing that with a very thick kerf parting tool the way that one is designed with the hook at the bottom it didn't leave much in there to get wedged and so i would caution people who try to do this and again everything you do is at your own risk and i don't like to cop out like that but um you could you could wedge that in there and wind up launching a piece of wood or breaking your chisel or whatever so i would caution you on that part of it [Music] we're going to give her some yorkshire microfine same exact process just a much finer finish okay so i'm going to do this off camera and i will bring you back when i'm putting on the hampshire sheen at the very end okay now we're gonna hit some hamster sheen high gloss [Music] i am pleased with that all right i'm going to give it just a few minutes here for that wax to set up and um i'll probably buff it one more time lightly then we'll take it off i'll put some pictures up at the end thanks again everyone who watches the channel and subscribes i really appreciate it if you haven't subscribed any like what you saw please consider doing so put out a video every week and try to mix it up a little bit for my resin junkie friends there is resin videos coming i haven't had time to to do the process properly lately so um so i'm not going to do it wrong i i haven't had time to stabilize and and dry wood properly to cast but once i get some time here and i'm i think that's going to happen soon enough so be some resin videos coming in the near future i hope that shows up as cool looking spinning in on the video as it does live because it's pretty funky well i like it all right i'm pretty happy with that for a first go around again there are some little tiny bits of misalignment so uh which is really odd because this one here is almost perfect this one's perfect and this one but how these ones could be out a little bit and these ones still be perfect is beyond me but anyhow that is something i'll work on for the next one but i definitely will be doing another one of these and i'll do it the same similar way because i like that i like how that works uh just gonna perfect it a little bit so i'm just wiping my finish here before it's done so i'm going to put this back on and buff it again and awesome pictures up at the end uh if you're still watching thanks so much for sticking with me i appreciate it we'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: The Klondike Craftsman

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Keywords: Woodturning, Wood Turning, Economy Bowl, bowl from a board, scrap wood project, $120 Bowl From Scrap Wood - A New Way to Make a Bowl, Klondike Craftsman, Yorkershire Grit, Hampshire Sheen, How to make a bowl, how to make an economy bowl, how to make a bowl from a board, Earn money in your shop, money from scrap wood

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Length: 27min 24sec (1644 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 26 2021