I have been making a few more of the lidded bowls like the one I
made from the blank Ken Smith sent me. I have been using
some pieces of black walnut and bird's eye maple that I had.
Some have been more successful than others....
This one looks good from the outside, but the lid was actually
turned for another bowl and I inadvertently got it too small.
So on this one I was making the bowl to fit the lid.
So far, so good, but I was also trying a new way of chucking the
blank to try to reduce the number of jaw changes I had to make on
my scroll chuck. Using the #1 jaws it was necessary to make
the chuck recess in the bowl bottom a bit deeper than I usually do
with the #2 jaws, and when hollowing the bowl I found the hole from
the wrong side.
Normally that is a fatal error but I decided to try to save this one
by inlaying a patch. There is no point in trying to hide it,
though, so I made the patch out of maple.
I glued the patch in and finished turning the bowl.
It may look deliberate from the top, but the bottom view makes
it obvious what happened.
Oh, well, just something to watch out for the next one!
Take care
Bob
Hi:
Thanks one and all for the kind comments.
I appreciate the encouragement.
Dave, I would love to swap.
The next one I get right is yours.
Take care
Bob
It's Square...
... it's Round...
... it's hollow...
... it's holy... It's the Super Bowl!
