Walnut bowl

[GeekMom]

Absolutely gorgeous weather here today, 60 degrees and sunshine, so took my lathe outside on the driveway. At any rate, here's my second try at a bowl: walnut, 4.25" dia x 2" tall. Thanks for looking!

[Denco]

Wow, Karen! That's beautiful!!! What type of tool did you use to hollow out the bowl? It looks perfect!

[Ken Weaver]

Nicely done Karen!!!

[Whaler]

Karen

That is fantastic!

I spent the day finishing the insulation project on my shop. Looks like I can get back to turning now.

[mater]

Karen, It looks like you have mastered bowl turning already. Great job.

[sdmaker]

karen, Are you related to kwgeorge? Cuz you sure can turn a beautiful piece. What finish are you using? Whatever it is it is turning out great.

[boblon]

That does look great Karen. Nice finish on that piece. Did you decide on a method to finish the bottoms?

BobL.

[Mort]

Very Nice work and a very novel form. Good going

[kwgeorge]

Very pretty! I love working with Walnut and always keep a piece around. It is my wife’s favorite wood. I have noticed that a lot of turners will not use it as they consider it hard to turn but it looks as though you have no problems.

[JeffW]

Great job on the turning. Is it just one bowl or a bowl and a plate? It gives the appearance of the later.

[jdoolitt]

Beautiful work Karen. Great looking finish - what did you use?

[Doghouse]

Nice work. I love classic style bowls and walnut is one of my favorite woods.

[Doghouse]

Nice work. I love classic style bowls and walnut is one of my favorite woods.

[SteveR]

Looking very nice....Please do tell about the finish.

[GeekMom]

Thank you for all the kind comments [:I] I still have a LOT to learn. Never knew turning could be this much fun!

Den, I used a 1/2" round nose chisel to scrape out the inside.

Dave, Steve and Joe, I used EEE Ultrashine and Shellawax, then repeated the process.

Bob, I'm still working on the bottoms. The first bowl I 'cheated' and covered the bottom with felt. I hadn't left enough of a tenon when I finished, then when I separated it from the waste block, the bowl chipped. While I was in the process of parting this one off, the paper joint began to come loose. I ended up using a chisel to cut and scrape the remaining tenon away, then sand and finish. Not a perfect bottom, but better than the felt. I'm going to try to make a disk compression chuck before I make another bowl so that I can turn it around on the lathe.

Jeff, it's one bowl with a short pedestal base. But a plate and bowl . . . hmmm. Maybe next time

Ken, I don't know if walnut is hard to work with, or not. Figure my technique makes it more difficult, and it's part of the learning curve. I did put my skew AWAY after I tried it and got a couple of nasty catches. I didn't want the bowl to explode before I got a chance to see what it looked like [B)]

Dick, glad you got your insulation done so that you can get back to the fun!