Here's my Square bowl

Another pic... 

KurtK in Indy

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Great job; didn't take you long.

Alan Tolchinsky

>I see you followed Russ's plan and the bowl turned out great. Could you give a brief summary of how you did it? I couldn't quite follow Russ's post as I've never done this before. Or maybe it's 12:30 and time to sleep. :) Thanks Alan

Here's my Square bowl *LINK*

Darrell Feltmate

>Alan

Keep an eye on my web site. I should have a page on turning a square bowl in the next week or so. It was going to be a couple of days but a lot of work happened in a hurry. So much wood and so much day job (sigh...) :-)


Woodturnings by Darrell Feltmate

One word......patience!

KurtK in Indy

>Hi Alan:

All I can say first and foremost is be ready to take your time and really finesse the cuts for the wings. I first rounded the bowl portion to approximately the form I wanted and then slowly took small "layers" from the wings. It is critical that you have a good light and I positioned mine so that it shone into the bowl. By doing this, you can faintly see the cut you make and can chase it right into the beef of the bowl with no problems. Again, I was taking only about 1/16" or less per cut. I was turning the piece at about 600 rpm and that really made the cutting surface not skip so much from wing to wing. But be sure you have good control of the gouge.

I used a 5/8" fingernail ground bowl gouge for the initial cuts and sharpened it several times. I found that I was tearing the croos grain and not really cutting very much until I switched to my 3/8" bowl gouge. For whatever reason, it really made a nice clean, smooth cut.

I the worked the bowl portion as any bowl. I just got a beefy scraper (3/8"T) and used that to take care of cleaning the whole thing. Again...taking baby cuts with a real light grip, which for me, makes for light pressure into the wood.

I was able to power sand all the way out to the wings, which made me very happy. As you can see, the webs of the wings will need to be hand sanded, although I have an eye on using my OSS.

All in all...it is a very satisfying experience, as long as you give it the respect it deserves.

Kurt

Cool Darrell, Thanks

Alan Tolchinsky

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Re: One word......patience!

Alan Tolchinsky

>Kurt, Thanks for the info. I can't wait to do one of these. I'll wait for Darrell's website post and go from there. Have a great weekend. Alan in Md.

Very impressive

Dave Smith

>Hi Kurt,

The bowl looks good from here. I haven't turned a square bowl. Next time I am in your neck of the woods I will stop by for instructions.

Dave Smith

Still using a blue Jet 1236 in Longview, WA.

Just gimme' a call, Dave!!

KurtK in Indy

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My prayer...

BubbaBob

>..."Lord give me patience, but HURRY!"

BubbaBob

Re: Another pic...

Jennifer@Indy.USA

>Hi Kurt,

Very nice job! I love it. Pretty piece of cherry too. You're cheesin' big I know : )

Jen

PS: I still don't have those @#!$&*!! shelves together yet!