OT Go Big or Go Home!

omahagreg

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I got a lathe on New Years eve. Accessorized it to do bowls. Having fun with it! This one is 6-3/4" layers and 11" across! My biggest and best to date!
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Nice ! I used to know an old auto body guy that travelled all over northern Canada collecting rareish wood. Built his own bowl turning lathe and made some of the most beautiful bowls I have ever seen. I had a couple, but they got lost in a divorce. Good work - keep it up.
 
Always impressive how folks can modify a lathe to do something different. Have
you watched any of the videos by that guy in Montana? Over 100 videos and he
does a lot of wood turning to make wagon parts. Take a look at some of his
stuff on Utube.
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This is a rifle stock a friend of mine glued up and cut on my stock duplicator. It is done very similar to that bowl glue up. Used a number of exotic woods.
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The bowl is nice and that rifle is interesting, too bad it is backwards. I have been a leftie for 78 years.
 

Very impressive! I'm trying to envision how complicated gluing those blocks together in that pattern must have been. What glue did you use?
 
Nice bowl.

My wife and I turn wood. Always wondered if anyone else
turned on this forum.

Keep posting the pictures.
 
WOW! I do a small amount of turning; Pens, canes, and bottle stoppers. That is one of my goals to turn a segmented
bowl. That is Beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Dsmythe
 
I use Titebond II wood glue!
I figure I have 4 to 5 hours in preparing the blank, and 1.5 hours in the actual turning. It is mahogany and aspen-turns really nicely, especially when the grain turns this way!

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I was pretty sure you had more time into making the blank than the turning would take. All those wedges have to be just right so you don't end up with gaps. Too fiddly for me I'm afraid.

This is a vase I made for the wife out of figured Big Leaf Maple.


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I used my metal lathe since I don't have a wood lathe. I also have made her a few sizes of rug hooking tools out of Holly.
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