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What does this look like? *LINK*

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What does this look like? *LINK*

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What does this look like? *LINK*

Andrew Hilton

>At the link listed below, what does it look like to you?

To me, it looks like a bowl that Remi is forming an off-center recessed foot into. If that is the case, how is he doing it do you think?

I'm supposing he has a cone of wood left inside the bowl that, before taking the foot off the bowl, he off-centered the bowl and formed a tenon to grab hold of with the chuck. Now he's making the recessed foot. Assuming the above is correct, how's he going to get rid of the cone/tenon? Reverse it and put the bottom of the bowl in a vacuum chuck?

OR, maybe he's just using a vacuum chuck on the inside and no cone/tenon and just set it off-center intentionally?

Any other ideas?

I like the idea of an offcenter foot to an otherwise normal bowl form. It'd make a nice presentation piece so that you could see inside the bowl without being directly on top of it looking down.


Offcenter Bowl Bottom?

Re: What does this look like? *LINK*

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Re: What does this look like?

Jim Pugh in Elyria, OH

>Hi Andrew,

My first impression is that he has it mounted on a vacuum chuck which would permit a person to orient the bowl "out of square" to any extent that would allow the vacuum to still seal.

On the other hand, he seems to be taking a pretty good cut which might be a bit much for most vacuum seals......

So, your question and the picture gives me the idea of perhaps turning a bowl with a round bottom (turning off the spigot), then repositioning it using the vacuum chuck to put the foot noticeably off center.

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#3

Perhaps he borrowed a chuck from..

Bob Hackett

>Jean-Francois Escoulen.They know each other and had demos going at the same places,it`d be a logical jump to think they`re sharing techniques.

I believe the Escoulen chuck allows a bowl sized faceplate to be used.

Mainely,Bob