A few bowl turning pictures as I have been producing for a part in a few shows this fall.
Below is a stack including walnut, persimmon, ash, cypress and two elm species.
A few more added from above on the workbench, the same species as above with the addition of a few crab-apple.
Hollowing a large cypress bowl on the lathe using a 1/2 bowl gouge.
A few blow-ups from experimenting with the grind on a smaller bowl gouge.
Thanks to Bridgit Yinger, the Onion Tree in Wichita, Kansas is now carrying some of my bowls for sale.
Here is an osage orange, or hedge bowl. It developed a small crack in the sapwood during drying.
Another osage bowl in various stages on the lathe.
Cypress bowl on the lathe.
Same bowl on the bench.
A few other shop pictures…
A white oak chair leg for a repair job, being bent in a form. The leg was turned and bent while green. You can see my first failed attempt.
flattening a walnut half for turning with a fore-plane
Here is a pretty (I think) little persimmon bowl, turned green. The rim is grey as a result of the blank being sealed with wax for a few months before it was worked. My guess is the moisture being trapped against the surface of the wood- which shed its cellular moisture first (the interior retaining it’s cellular moisture, ie green), and therefore “weathered” grey. The bowl has also distorted as it has dried.
Here are two different 3-legged stools, in Green Ash.
This one has a handle, like a milking stool.
An Ash plate, bowl, walnut bowl, and a small persimmon dish.
Quercus Stellata, Post Oak. Finished with olive oil.
A small bowl turned from green persimmon wood back in september. It has distorted as it dried.
Below are four bowls (from left) in elm, cottonwood, cottonwood, and ash.
The second cottonwood bowl taken from the crotch-wood.
The Ash bowl.
We have been making a lot of bowls lately, here are some of them.
A row of bowls on the mantle. Some are turned on a foot powered pole-type lathe and some on an electric lathe.
One in green ash, and one in cottonwood.
One in bald cypress and one in walnut.
Bowl blanks just cut and ready to have the ends coated with paraffin. Species here are, persimon, green ash, post oak, black walnut, and bald cypress.
The School of the Transfer of Energy 