Bowl with carved handles and feet, 1st try
John K Jordan
John Lucas gave a demo at the Knoxville woodturning club a few months ago on making a turned bowl with carved feet and handles. I had never tried this so I decided to try one. I set my light diffuser cube up the other day so I finally got a picture.
This is from dry Bradford Pear, oil finish. I decided to go for the tendrils look. This is probably too fragile to be functional! Here is the pre-carved turning:
I learned a lot from this first try. The hardest thing with such a big foot ring is turning the sides and bottom with curves that will end up as one continuous curve. This one came out just right but if I do another one I think I'll make a template. I will probably try for a better balance between the handles and feet!
Carved with a Foredom, carving gouges, sharp knife and riffler files, smoothed with files and sandpaper on a stick.
I wimped out on making the sides smooth between the handles. I used a small carbide burr in a Dremel to stipple the band.
JKJ
