The rumor is true!!!!
It all started Sunday, when people started reading my interview on SMC, and I mentioned in the interview that there were several people gently prodding (okay, they were nagging) me to get to bowls. I made the colossal mistake of committing to produce a bowl by the end of June. Then, after LOML and I came in from dinner on Sunday evening, he took me by the hand, led me into the shop, and told me to put my money where my mouth was. So.....a piece of maple on the lathe, into the smock and shield, 50s-era Atlas 1" bowl gouge in hand, I started roughing that little 6" piece of maple.
So last night, after sanding and sanding and sanding the outside of the bowl, it got flipped around onto the stronghold chuck and I started hogging out the inside.
Came home tonight, finished the inside, decided it didn't look
too bad, and finished it with BLO and shellac. It's a modest, unassuming little bowl, about 5-3/4" across and 1-1/4" high, and it sits on a little bitty foot about 1/8" above the surface it's sitting on. It's blotchy, it has some cracks in it, but it's mine, all mine. I made it and it's MY FIRST BOWL!!!!
So who was that tall, dark stranger who said I couldn't turn a bowl????
Tomorrow night the bottom gets lasered.
Nancy