Time lapse wood turning - 2015-07-13 - Oak burl - Audio commentary!
Channel: Paul Wayper
Date: 2015-07-14

I crufted together an audio commentary for this one!  The time lapse is one frame per second.

I got a half-turned bowl blank from someone else's discards and thought I could make something out of it.  The blank was asymmetrical and had been partly filled with dark epoxy for contrast.

I gripped the foot with the chuck and then turned a new inset foot in the top.  Then I smoothed the outside down with a fingernail gouge and sanded and polished it, keeping the original foot since it was still OK.

I re-mounted it on the foot and started turning, but the leverage you have with a bowl gouge on the chuck is enough to have the blank try to escape - twice!  The first time it hit Roger on the shoulder - walking past me can be dangerous.  It just shows that you have to go pretty slowly when you've got a small base to grip on.

I did most of the hollowing work with the scrapers, then finally sanded it and polished it with U-Beaut Glow polish for a nice shiny surface.