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Woodturning Green Wood: Walnut Log to Bowl - Turning The Big Green Monster
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I really enjoy your great "LISA TALK" wholesome presentations.
Thanks Leslie!
Oval, shmoval, wonky, shmonky -- the beautiful figure in this black walnut bowl makes it a keeper. Your determination in the face of disappointments is admirable, Lisa. You're certainly not a quitter.
Thanks Noah, I am definitely persistent!
I think itâs beautiful! Nice to see a female in a male dominated craft. Keep on keeping on.
Thanks Serah! đ
we don't dominate, it just happens to be that more men do this than women, I feel men get blamed and accused for things we have nothing to do with but people make statements like yours and it puts a divide between people keyword people not men not women just people.
@@Genxisthebest Iâm sorry you feel that way. It wasnât meant as a put down towards men at all. It was just that I thought it was really cool that a woman was learning to do something that men normally do. I love watching the wood turning videos from all sorts of people. Itâs something I wonât ever be able to afford to do. My apologies if I offended you.
@@justjulee9135 Thank you for that we are getting bashed from every side now it puts me on defense all of the time every comment or action especially if you are a white male people treat us like we are devils they call us that on many channels on twitter and many other forums. Again thanks for clearing that up sorry I got so defensive.
@@Genxisthebest itâs all good! Iâm definitely not a male bashing feminist lol. I see the things that are happening these days as well. Sorry we got off on the wrong foot! Enjoy your evening and thank you for some good conversation.
Hi I have just watched your video it is very good I live in Wales UK I was a carpenter ( a real one ) for 52 yrs but have retired now am doing a lot of turning thanks for a wonderful video. Pete.
Thank you Pete, I really appreciate that. I do lots of diy carpentry as well and enjoy just about any kind of woodworking, but turning is by far my favorite - I only wished I started earlier! Iâve been woodworking for over 20 years but turning for not quite 2
I somehow missed this one! I was recovering from hand surgery in March. Super Bowl!! It would be a real easy sell!
Thanks Harry! This one has become my catch-all bowl in the house. Itâs currently full of face masks, my wallet, some coupons and receipts, and who knows what else!? đ
Thank you love your videos. I'm a newbie and the videos help alot
Hi William, Iâm glad youâre enjoying the videos. đ
Lisa, as a non-turner I really am enjoying your video. I just found your channel.
Iâm so glad youâre enjoying the videos đ
Really nice big green thingy. (I'm sure when I was at prep boarding school many moons ago, a "big green thingy" was quite different. Hey ho!). What a piece tho', drying still before our eyes. An experience watching it and, with the end result, I think you enjoyed it too! Thank you again for giving us so much pleasure. đ¶đ€
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This guy is sitting on my kitchen counter holding all of the crap I donât know where else to put - face masks, receipts, wallet, couponsâŠlittle bit of everything in there at the moment đ
It's all a learning curve with each bit of wood you seem to be recognising your mistakes and problems your encountering which is a good thing to better one self I would only say one thing try and be more patient and take more time iam not a master by no means but I've learned that slowing down and being patient with yourself will guide you in the right direction keep the good work up .all the best
Thanks for the encouragement. This particular project was a bit of an experiment as I normally rough turn bowls, dry them in my dishwasher kiln, and then finish turn them. I wanted to try one green and see what happened-I like the organic look of the warping. I did end up having to rush the finishing on this piece as I got started late and ran out of time, knowing I wasnât going to be home for a few days, but so far itâs not cracked so I may tidy up the finishing a bit once itâs done moving around đ
Really, really, a fantastic bowl. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks Barry! It is lovely and is currently on my kitchen counter holding all the stuff I donât know where else to put đ
That walnut is really pretty. I hope it stayed in one piece for you.
Thank you Cyndy, it has stayed together and surprisingly the same shape and dimension too! đ.
I THINK YOU DONE AN AWESOME JOB AND DON'T GET DISCOURAGED ON HOW YOU DID IT JUST THINK OF THE PEACE OF BEAUTIFUL ART THAT YOU TRANSFORMED FROM A BLOCK OF WOOD INTO A BEAUTIFUL BOWL KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK WELL TAKE CARE AND STAY SAFE GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS TILL NEXT TIME
Thank you Curtis
That pivot cut is perfect for this. Great control and command of the tools. Really enjoy your turnings.I call all the little tool marks,â heartbeats â.
Hi Frank! I do love that little pivot cut and use it all the time. Thanks for watching đ
awesome bowl from a skilled woodworker. You inspire lots of women. Good on you.
Thank you Jose, I appreciate that đ
I enjoyed your first larger bowl and look forward to future coring work. The Franklin glove brings back great softball memories as I used Franklin products back in the day.
I have switched from a batting glove to a latex coated garden kinda thing cuz Iâve worn through 4 left hand batting gloves - and have 4 brand new right gloves đ
This is gorgeous, you are way too hard on yourself. This is the nicest bowl I have seen yet on CZcams.
Thank you. Iâm working on my expectations of perfection đ
Nice bowl, I love Walnut.
Thanks John, me too! đ
Just stumbled across your channel. Love the commentary, definitely adds something that not many other turning channels utilize. đđ»đđ»
Hi there! I havenât always done the voice overs but that was definitely the preference of the viewers so thatâs how Iâll keep the format. Iâm glad youâre enjoying the videos đ
I have really enjoyed your videos, as a newbie wood turner your explanations on different phases of the turning has been very helpful and enjoyable. Your end products have been simple beautiful
Thank you for sharing a part of your life with all of us
Thank you Richard I really appreciate that. Iâm glad youâre enjoying the channel đ
beautiful..... The grain is awesome and contrasty......nice
Thank you! I was hoping to be able to keep a little more of the sapwood and have it a bit more balanced, but Iâm happy with it regardless đ
Lovely bowl, Lisa. I love your videos with lots of explanation, but stop being so hard on yourself, youâre a good turner.
Hi Bill! Thanks for watching-Iâm glad youâre enjoying the videos. Iâm definitely my own worst critic and am working on finding a balance between perhaps lofty expectations of myself and being realistic about the issues I see in my work that may be of some help to other new turners. đ
Thatâs is a big bowl love the grain wish I could do bowls that big lol keep it up
Thanks Justin! By far the biggest one Iâve done so far, and Iâm really happy with how it turned out! đ
Nothing better than a finished walnut piece. A suggestion for roughing out without getting the tar beat out of you. Try lowering the tool rest and gouge handle so it's not such an abrupt cut. Many of the great woodturners say if you're getting beat up, you're doing something wrong. It's no fun getting beat up by a piece of wood. I'd suggest watching Lyle Jamison's videos for basic positions of bowl gouge cuts. You'll never see him get beat up while turning. He makes it looks so easy and has many years of experience teaching. Have fun!
Hi Greg! I think Iâve watched all of Lyleâs videos, among others. He gets the speed up by starting the blank between centers and balancing it out, that way the roughing is easier. I didnât want to do that with this big a blank so I used the faceplate. My bandsaw is unhappy again so I didnât bother trying to get the blank any more round, just figured Iâd do it on the lathe. Once I got the long end closer to the width it cut really nicely but because I had a couple of inches difference I couldnât get the speed up right away and it was a rougher roughing out than it could have been đ
@@LisaRamlow Lisa, Thank you for the reply. I don't own a bandsaw so either I do like Lyle (between centers - balanced) or if the piece of wood must start out of balance, I start with low speeds but found ways to avoid the beating. Go back to Lyle's videos and watch his tool angle. I used to just take the beating but my hands just can't take it nor should they. Try experimenting with dropping the tool handle and let me know what you find. Woodturning should be fun and when it isn't, it feels like work and gets a little discouraging. Just trying to help with what I learned the hard way. Also, it helps to take lighter cuts until it's more balanced.
I love it, I would put it in a display case so no one could touch it.
Thanks Paul! I think this one is going to get some use đ
Great job Lisa, beautiful bowl
Thanks Andy!
I bought an oval turned bowl from a craftsman at a fair one year and he wouldnât tell me how he made oval bowls unless I bought one. It was more money than I could afford, but I needed to know. Turns out, he turns them green and lets them slowly dry and warp naturally. He said he had a lot of losses, but I still have that bowl and treasure it to this day.
Hi Jeanne! Thatâs an awesome story and Iâm so glad you got the bowl đ. Green turning is fun and you never really know what youâre going to getâŠor lose. Iâve tossed a few in the burn pile myself đ
Amazing i love to woodtrurn inmy free time but this is a big project. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Jobro! I just cored the other half of this walnut log and got 3 bowls from it. Gonna have a video up on my coring system next week!
Iâm thinkin it looks awesome!!! Nice work!! đđ
Thank you John đ
Great job on the Green Monster Lisa! Such a pretty piece of wood and you did it justice.
I have a couple of chunks of Walnut that I have only split in half. I would have to do some trimming to get them in my 1836 and have been considering it. Just not sure what I would do with an 18 inch bowl. But it would be fun to do. Now after watching you I just may have to do it.
Great video I enjoyed it very much.
Take care,
Gary
Thanks Gary! This is the biggest thing Iâve done and the first time Iâve tried to once-turn something green. I like the organic look of the warping in most cases - RoboHippy does most of his bowls this way but does let them dry for a few weeks before he sands and oils his. Did you notice my spiffy spindle lock mechanism? đ
I really like turning a green bowl all the way to size and love it when they warp. I have watched RoboHippy do the same. He lives on the southern end or Oregon and I live on the northern end. You probably know who Carl Jacobson is. He lives fairly close to me and before I knew who he was I bought an old Delta lathe from him. That is how I started watching CZcams turning videos. But I have pretty much turned my whole life. I worked as a wood pattern maker and that involved turning on some of the projects I made. The most massive thing I turned was about 6 foot in diameter but the biggest was a ring close to 8 foot. Now I want to turn an 18 inch walnut bowl LOL, might check out the pieces as I need to do something with them.
That is a cool spindle lock you have there! Where the heck did you get that idea??? đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
I learned to turn watching Reed and Carl and San Angelo and Brian Havens and Mike Waldt and a bunch of others. I started with the Delta midi cuz I saw Sam and Carl both had one and figured it had to be decent! It was a good little lathe but I figured out pretty quickly that turning is what Iâm doing from here on out so I sold it to a lovely couple locally and upgraded to the 1836. Saw a lot of those on YT as well and while there are a handful of issues Iâm really happy with it.
This half of the walnut log I split in October was starting to end check so I decide to just put it on the lathe, make a bowl, and see what happens! Iâm glad I did. Itâs fun to experiment sometimes. And this really nice guy on YT showed me how to make that spindle lock, gosh what was his name now? đđ€Łđ
I have turned a lot of green walnut. Great job! I take several days and wrap it in saran wrap to keep it from drying too fast. Seems to work for me. Never had one crack yet. Great looking bowl!
Thanks Donna! Iâm going to post a short update video hopefully later today đ
Very nice bowl.
I'm a little vertically challenged too and I bought a rubber padded mat from Lowe's for the front of my lathe $35.00 and it helped a lot for both my old shoulders and feet!
BTW..
Enjoyed the video too.
Thanks Keith! I have a couple of those interlocking play mats glued to a pieces of 3/4â plywood and that does help on all counts! đ
Beautiful bowl.. I like it!
Thank you Eduardo! This one sits on my counter and collects all my day-to-day stuff đ
I can empathize with you concerning the rim. Going back for just one more touch-up always ends in disaster for me.
Very pretty bowl and wood.
Thanks Joel. Someday maybe Iâll learn to leave it alone. Iâm going to core the other half of this walnut blank in the next couple of weeks đ
I love it. Is it perfect? No. But it's still a really nice bowl. I love a rustic look. Green bowls always distort and , to me, makes it feel much older. Pioneer Texas woman would have cherished one that nice.
Thanks! I like the wonky bits I just hope it wonât crack đ
You have a real talent, beautiful work. đ
Thank you Andy đ
I will never stop diggin the heart to sap contrast in walnut.
Me neither Robert. Walnut is definitely one of my favorites đ
Beautiful job Lisa
Thanks Ralph đ
Another great tutorial. Your commentary is appreciated. Telling us what you're doing and why you're doing it, is helpful to us non-woodcrafters. No one else does it. And the fact that you're still learning and telling us, is so cool. Really like the end result. Oh, and your editing has gotten better.
Thanks David. Yes, definitely dialing in the video production part, which takes a RIDICULOUSLY long time
Nice modern look to the bowl
Thank you Charlie! This bowl has held its shape nicely đ
Absolutely beautiful đ
Thank you! đ
Nice work. My American Beauty has a much larger swing than I have bravado. 16 inches is my largest to date. I never turn green wood but you showed that it can be done with great results.
Hi Rick - thatâs a nice machine, even if you donât test itâs limits đ
I normally twice-turn bowls but wanted to try one green and see what happens. I was really pleased with how my lathe handled this blank - I couldnât get the speed up past about 300 until I got it more wound but the lathe acted like it didnât even know it was there đ
Beautiful Lisa.
Thanks Jack!
You can almost feel the water flying off the walnut. Nice job!
It was crazy to watch the color change as I was cutting đ
Very impressive , very big , very beautiful .
Thanks Ahron! Iâm really pleased with it - just hoping it wonât crack! Wonky and warped is wonderful, cracked or split not so much đ
Beautiful bowl Lisa. Love walnut just wish I could get some in Australia. We have plenty of eucalyptus trees. Love your turning. Cheers John
Hi John! Walnut is definitely one of my favorites. Thanks for watching - cheers! đ
Hi Lisa. Lovely piece of wood you have there. Please refrain from negative talk, you are more than capable to tackle this job, before you take it off the lathe leave it in the chuck this will help finishing, you don't have the problem with the tenon or mortise distortion throwing your bowl out. Good luck, oh maybe lower the tool rest.
Hi David! I donât mean to sound negative - although I am definitely my own worst critic, most of my commentary is just observation and trying to improve my skills. Thereâs a little self-depreciation but itâs good-natured. đ
Something I didnât really expect from doing the CZcams channel is being able to see myself turning and recognizing things I may be doing wrong or that look funny. When turning this bowl, I didnât feel like I was dropping and trying for pick up the cut on the outside while I was working, but in watching the video back I see that I kept losing bevel support and that seems to be contributing to at least some of the lines on the outside of the bowl.
Anyway, I appreciate your feedback and I will be conscious of my tone and try to keep things in a positive view đ
good job, I learn something with every wood turning video I watch, your commentary was very good... new turner, 70+ retired... loving the lathe...
Hi Jack, thanks for stopping by! Iâm glad you found it enjoyable. Been turning not quite two years and am totally hooked đ
Maybe it's a bit wonkey donkey but it's still a really great looking piece. Always enjoyed cutting walnut such a beautiful wood. Keep safe and well.đđ
Hi Clive! Wonky is fine as long as it doesnât split or crack in half! đ
wood will do what wood does. when it does what we expect then we feel great when it does something else we call it art. Great job really nice bowl
Excellent philosophy Garry! Hope it warps but doesnât crack đ
Nice bowl Lisa
Frank
Thank you Frank!
Beautiful bowl
Thanks James!
Nicely done Lisa! Love the color and figure of the bowl.
Thank you John!
Hi Lisa , Great looking bowl, it turned out looking very nice, you commented where you were saying your lathe was too tall , you could experiment by laying some sheets of plywood or chipboard down in front of the lathe until you feel you've got it at the right height but you must make sure you don't go on trip on it and fall into the lathe as you go to walk towards it so be safe,
Phil from the Moulin in France.
Hi Phil! I did add a âriserâ Iâd used with my old lathe for this video - itâs just a 3/4â piece of plywood with those foam play mat things glued to the top so adds maybe 1.5â of height. Iâve thought about making a taller one but Iâm a little afraid Iâd accidentally step off backwards. I broke my ankle in 2019 and that was a horrible experience-donât want to do that again! Iâll have to experiment a little and see how it goes. Itâs not such an issue for the traditional tools-maybe I can just pay extra attention to whether or not the carbides are level when Iâm using them.
Beautiful work and nice
Thank you Gaetan! đ
This just popped up in my feed and as I watch quite a few turners I gave it a watch, I liked the style of it and found your commentary very helpful as I am hoping to get my first lathe by the middle of next year, and am trying to soak up all the tips I can. Looks like Iâll be heading over to your channel to drop a subscription and check out your other uploads.
Hey there! So glad you stopped by and that you are enjoying the videos. đ
Beautiful piece. I LOVE black walnut with some sap wood. The contrast is incredible. Thank you for not turning it all away.
Hi Steven! I like most sapwood but walnut is probably my favorite-I love the color variations, the blues and purples you can get sometimes. I was hoping to have a bit more sapwood visible and a little more balanced but the bowl said nope! And I said okey dokey then! đ
Beautiful bowl. I enjoyed watching you turn this piece and describe the process and difficulties.
Thanks Peter, Iâm glad you enjoyed it đ
Wow what a chunk of walnut! Great bowl! Please update as it continues to move as it dries (that's character). Fill that sucker with popcorn and you're set for a long weekend of movies. Excellent narration as usual. TY for posting.
Thanks Mike! Iâll keep you guys posted đ
A daunting task and a beauty of a bowl. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you đ
Wow that's a huge bowl beautifully turned really like the grain great job Lisa
Thank you Rich, Iâm hoping it stays in one piece đ
walnut is one of the most beautiful materials for turning, Nice job!
Thank you! I agree, walnut is one of my favorites đ
From all that Iâve seen, green wood will always warp some but Iâve also saw people use mineral oil to keep it from cracking. Beautiful bowl
Thanks Joseph
The one way coring system works great!
Hi Amy! Thanks for the recommendation the OneWay has great reviews. đ
Hi Lisa... I love this bowl and would be proud to have it on show in my home... green woodturning is great.. you just never know what's going to happen.... fab job... take care...All the best.....Andy
Thanks Andy! So far itâs looking good-no cracks and is warping pretty evenly. Iâll keep you guys posted as to the progress đ
Very nice. Looks good.
Thanks đ
Itâs a great looking bowl. Youâve got to love the ones that give you hell and test your skills.
Iâm finishing up a 10âx 4â blank of Norfolk Island Pine. It wonât balance, no matter what I do. Tear out has been a nightmare. And Iâve had to walk away from it three times already. My daughter stopped by today and saw it on my lathe and said she really likes it.
So those projects that test our skills will only make us better as long as we donât give up.
Absolutely! I havenât worked with NIP yet but may have an opportunity to get my hands on some this year
Regarding Norfolk Island pine, yah they donât balance well because if you have branches showing in your piece, each one is of different size and weight. If you are planning to make it thin and translucent soak it for days or weeks in boiled linseed oil, polyurethanes and odorless paint thinner equal parts of each and wet sand. I spent a day with Ron Kent in Hawaii and thatâs his process and mine too. By the way you can find his bowls at Gumps for around 3 K. Mine are considerably cheaper but heâs the original !!
What fun! I love turning green logs, can't comprehend having someone gift me a piece of walnut that size (any size). If the lathe so stable and level, try building a cattle guard style mat out of construction 2x4 ripped to the width your need to get you at a comfortable working height. They are very common in front of metal lathes, both for foot comfort and safety as it gets you above the accumulated waste. Very nice outcome, good work!
Hi Gord! I must be doing something right, karma has been good to me so far đ
I may try an elevated platform. For this walnut bowl I swapped my foam pads for a piece of 3/4â plywood with those foam play mats glued to the top, which adds probably about 1.5â of height and I still feel like where Iâm comfortable holding the tools handles is a bit low. Iâm a little nervous about making a platform so tall that I might accidentally step off it - I broke my ankle in Jan 2019 (and spent the next 3 months in the lazy boy binging Woodturning tutorials on YT đ) and that was one of the worst experiences Iâve ever had. A plate and 9 screws, which I had to have removed after the fact cuz the hardware was so close to the skin it was gonna be a problem if I ever whacked my ankle on anything đł
Anyway, I think Iâll try it and see how it feels - what exactly do you mean by cattle guard-the fencing to use as the platform top?
@@LisaRamlow hello again. Sorry I grew up in cattle country. What I was suggesting is to rip some 2x4 to become 2 3/4 wide (or whatever height you need. Then laminate them to 1â spacers so thereâs a 1â gap between boards. Make it large enough so stepping off while working is not a threat. I get your safety concern perhaps adding a 30 degree transition or even 15 degrees so thereâs no abrupt drop? Just a suggestion you understand
Gotcha. A good suggestion and one Iâve been mulling over. Several of you have recommended the same sort of thing so Iâll have to give it a try đ
Love the contrast in Walnut. Great looking bowl Lisa.
Thank you!
Sehr schön gemacht đ sieht klasse aus.
Thank you! Cheers!
Really appreciate you talking through your process. Thank you
Thanks Natan, Iâm glad youâre finding it enjoyable đ
That is a beauty Lisa and of course being walnut makes it even better! Lots of fun turning green wood as the wood cuts so easily and I hope it does not warp too badly but it would probably fit well on your lap to eat popcorn out of ..well done and thanks!
Cheers Al
Thanks Al! It may very well end up a popcorn bowl - hereâs hoping it doesnât crack đ
I always think the wood expresses its own feelings through movement. Beautiful bowl and good job getting all done in one day.
Thank you Hashim! I wish Iâd had more time to to work on the surface finish but it was late and I was tired đ
Here's an idea for green bowls . Insert a wood disc inside the bowl rim and hot glue it in a few spots to keep it from egging out to badly while it dries.
Interesting idea đ€
I too found a $15 air chisel from harbor freight is the quickest way to remove the bark and let me focus on shaping the bowl.
I picked up that little tidbit from Lyle Jamieson and itâs brilliant!
Nice job Beautiful bowl Lisa!
Thank you! Youâve had a couple of nice chunks of black walnut - good stuff! đ
@@LisaRamlow Youâre welcome And Thank you đ
I turned some black walnut today too! Nice work and thanks for sharing! Love the funnel shirt too, great stuff, ha! â€ïžđ»âïžđ
Thanks Jack! This was a fun project but I was pretty sad to see the enormous pile of shavings I made from it - gonna have to loom at coring systems down the road!
@@LisaRamlow yeah, it never ends does it!?!? Lol I need a hollowing system as well (like u mentioned) and Iâd love to try a coring system too! Take it easy đ»
Gorgeous grains
Thank you đ
Great looking bowl! Will look even better after it takes a bit of an oval. You could see it change color and roundness as you worked on it. I have the same lathe. Going to start some black walnut burl bowls up to 18â and just received my coring system on Tuesday. Canât wait to see what you turn next week.
Hi Lance! What system did you get?
@@LisaRamlow I got the oneway easy-core. It looks like the simplest to work and seems very versatile.
Thatâs a pretty popular one. They make good products so I will look pretty hard at that one
Maybe wearing some high heals would level you out with your lathe. LOL Nice bowl ! I just started turning myself and listening to you and your trials and errors makes me feel better about my own beginner issues. I'm liking your videos , thank you...
Not on your life man!đ Iâm pretty sure those tortuous thing have never touched my feet and they certainly wonât from here on out! Honestly I donât know how women walk in them. I do not have that kind of coordination-Iâll stick to my steel-toed work boots (which do have a bit of a heel!) and my plywood/foam mat riser đ
Iâm glad youâre enjoying the videos - Iâm learning more every time I step in front of the lathe and having a blast!
Ang galing ng pagkakayari ng ng bowl lisa idol na kita.great
Thank you, I appreciate that đ
You did awesome! Even with the warping of the green wood, you and your lathe handled it very well.
I have the same lathe but have not put it to the test with a large bowl. Soon I hope. Nice job.
Thank you so much Laurie! The lathe didnât even think about slowing down, and once I got it mostly rounded off I wasnât so nervous about it. đ
Great Work Ms. Lisa!! The Big Green Monster is absolutely beautiful!!! đđ
Thank you Charity!
Just awesome. Love the bowl for a first large size bowl and being so wet you did great. Looking forward to the next one. Also I really like I you mention the different finishes and tools you are using and a real experience over a sales pitch makes it very helpful.
Thanks Ryan!
You did well, Lisa. As you said, itâs your first try at something that size!
Thanks David! I was a little nervous until I got it mostly round đ
Definitely a win. That wood is so beautiful.
Thanks Gail!
Walnut is so hard to keep round and not oval. Great job making a beautiful bowl. Hope it stays that way.
Thanks Jean! It can go oval all it wants as long as it doesnât crack! đ
You are waayyy to good to be so self deprecating. keep up the awesome work sister!!
Thanks James. Gotta learn how to quiet that inner perfectionist đŹ
Well turned, thanks for the turning fix. I'm currently not able to turn due to recovering from 2 stays in Hospital, 1 for gallbladder removal, and the 2nd from infection from the surgery. Anyway, beside's from having the Lathe level, I've found having the spindle height at elbow height when your arms are relaxed in a standing position seems to be the best height for me, and a lot of turners seems to agree on that, and it works for me.
Sorry to hear youâre not at 100%. Hope youâre back to making shavings soon!
When I set the lathe I tried to level it where the sentry of the spindle height is at about my elbow. This is going to sound funny but I think my problem is that I have a long torso and short legs, so when I hold the tool handle against my body where itâs comfortable (about hipbone-ish) the end of the handle is lower than someone the same height but whose legs are longer and therefore the hipbone is higher from the floor. My girlfriend and I are the same height but her legs are 2â longer than mine and when I get in the car after sheâs driven I canât see out the rear view mirror without tilting it up đ. In any case I think in addition to trying to pay attention to the tool position when Iâm turning I think Iâll try a taller platform and see if that feels right. Hope youâre feeling better soon - thanks for watching and for the suggestionđ
Thank you, I'm itching to get back into things, at least CZcams helps with getting my turning fix, lol.
I think trying different platforms is a good idea, at least that way you can adjust things to find your best position. Goes to show that everyone is different, lol.
Hi Lisa, a little bit of advice. Keep doing what you are doing. You have come a long way in such a short time. I love your videos and the way you commentary.
Thanks grampa shorty! Iâm definitely making progress and Iâm having a blast, which is the most important part! đ
This is a nice bowl, with lovely contrast in the grain. I haven't yet turned anything that big, but I think I'll be a twice-turned turner, as you could end up having to do quite a lot of truing up with this piece.
Hi Stephanie! This is still my biggest piece and I normally do twice-turn, just wanted to see how this went. I like the sort of organic look to pieces that warp a little, and this one kept a nice and even shape, with no cracks so the experiment was a success! I just cored the other half of this log and got 3 bowls from it, which are in the kiln right now drying. Video for the coring is here if youâre interested in checking that out
czcams.com/video/B1fvQp0BVOM/video.html
Very nice, Lisa! I like the light sap wood with the dark walnut. Makes such a beautiful piece.
Hi Ray! Me too - I like most sapwood but walnut is one of my favorites-I love the color variations you can get, especially the blues & purples when they fade into the heartwood. đ
Thanks for watching
Revealing nature's beauty. Awesome job!
Thanks John!
Love big bowls. Add that it is walnut and youâve captured me. The issue is that green walnut will warp like crazy. You did a great job with this piece. It will most likely stay together but will most likely warp so badly that itâs unusable. While watching I was asking why you couldnât rough turn it and let it dry before finishing. Then again, Iâm not good at doing that either. Beautiful bowl and Iâm hoping it remains usable for you.
Hi Doug! I do normally rough turn, kiln dry, then finish turn bowls but I wanted to try one green and see what happened. I left enough on the bottom to be able to sand it flat once itâs dine warping so Iâm hoping itâll stay intact!
Great video
Thanks Carl! đ
i almost cried when i saw you weren't coring that piece of walnut.
Didnât have a coring system yet. Cored the other half đ
I like it. Love the sap wood. Its a nice contrast. đ i rarely have time to finish a bowl in 1 session so i have started tieing a walmart bag over it while in the chuck if i have to leave it. Still warps some but seems to help a bit. Just something to maybe try if it comes up
Hey Brad! Yeah I did that with a wet white oak crotch piece and while it didnât crack on the lathe and I was able to finish turn it, it made a nasty rusty mess of my chuck. I was going to be gone the next couple of days and didnât want to take a chance in losing the whole thing. I like the wonky warpy bit just fine, if it will stay intact đ
No cracks yet=good. Getting it done that night=good. Out of round from being wet= the wood adding itâs own character to the final product. New T-shirt for working in=fun!!!
Thanks Valerie! Sometimes you have to experiment a little just because đ
Great piece I havenât tried anything that big that is wet, but watch this space it came out nice. I do like them when they move and change shape
Hi David! This is definitely my biggest piece so far and it was so much fun. I was nervous with the last large-ish bowl I did but I wasnât at all with this one. So far itâs warping a little bit no cracks! đ€
Abolutely beautiful. I like your humble honnest way.
Thank you đ
Lisa the bowl looks great. The figure on the inside is fantastic, I know you didn't really have a choice on how it looked, but you can still take credit for it. Great job.
Thanks Joey! Iâm pretty happy with how it turned out-I just hope it doesnât crack! đ