attempt at a square bowl

[zapdafish]

This is the bowl that soaked up alot of Danish oil. Im posting it now since it's gonna take forever for it to dry out before I can complete the finish.

I dont have a bandsaw and didn't feel like turning off the corners to get the blank round before turning a bowl so Googled on how to turn a square bowl and this is the result. The goal is to have a bowl suspended by all 4 corners. Its spalted poplar and I thought it was pretty cool how the spalt was revealed as the blank was carved away. This was alot of fun and challenging to sand with those corners wizzing around

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[Joe Scharle]

If you've still got all your knuckles, then ya' done good!

 

[BrianInChatham]

Just....wow. That is really nice.

 

[ChrisB]

It looks great, Steve! :icon_thum

Chris

 

[Rob]

I like it.

 

[erasmussen]

looking good :icon_thum

 

[cskipper]

That's neat! Was it kind of scary?

 

[Canuck]

WOW Steve!

You are takin' to this turnin' thing ike a 'duck to water'!!!!:rotflm: Like ....not turnin' back!:wsmile:

These bowls you are krankin' out look super.

I will need to have you stop by and give me a few lessons on bowl turning.

Well Done!!!!!!!:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

Wayne

 

[CarvedTones]

Holy smokes! That was inside that old grungy piece of wood? :gar-La;

Great job!

 

[Mark Stewart]

A #1 bowl you got there. I likes it.
Thanks MArk

 

[Glennbear]

Nicely done Steve, apparently you are not one to back away from a challenge. :wsmile:

 

[CaptnA]

Great job.
I can't even see the blood stains!
There are better ways of busting knuckles, but these are neat when they work out.
Keep up the good work~

 

[sawduster]

Nicely done my friend ! :banana: :notworthy:

 

[zapdafish]

Holy smokes! That was inside that old grungy piece of wood? :gar-La;

Great job!

HaHa, yeah, two of the other blocks you gave me were destroyed while trying to figure out how to get the faceplate work. :embaresse

That's neat! Was it kind of scary?

Not really, it was more of a pain because I couldn't move the tool rest any closer as I hollowed out the bottom part and I dont have one of those curvy rests to get behind or to the side of things. I wore gloves tho just to be safe.

WOW Steve!

You are takin' to this turnin' thing ike a 'duck to water'!!!!:rotflm: Like ....not turnin' back!:wsmile:

These bowls you are krankin' out look super.

I will need to have you stop by and give me a few lessons on bowl turning.

Well Done!!!!!!!:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

Wayne

Lol, I just grab stuff and go. Probably breaking all sorts of rules when I do so.

 

[Mike Davis]

I've seen a few of those before, yours is right up there with the best.

It gets fun when you start breaking the rules.

 

[farmerbw]

I think that came out real good. :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum


Brian.

 

[TBone]

That looks great. I'd like to watch that just to see how it's turned. Great job.

 

[crokett]

Very nice work. I have a piece of mahogany I want to try that with but haven't worked up the courage yet. I'm afraid of those corners.

 

[NorthernJeff]

Wow. Just a beautiful job. I may never be able to show my work on here again. Great job.:icon_cheers

 

[zapdafish]

Very nice work. I have a piece of mahogany I want to try that with but haven't worked up the courage yet. I'm afraid of those corners.

http://www.bayareawoodturners.org/club/Square_Edged_Bowl.pdf

These are the instructions I worked off of. It seemed pretty easy to follow.