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Here are the results of Night 2 of the Michigan Chocolate Adventures. As I did with the last one, I figured I'd bring a lot of pics for show and tell, for all you "closet turners" out there.
This was the bigger of the two blanks Larry sent me. (As mentioned in this thread.) It started out at 12 x 12 x 5 inches. I cut it round on the bandsaw the night before last, and if you've been following along, you've already seen the pics of that. I didn't get any pics of the blank when I first mounted it, but here is is after a minute or two of spinning. (When I remembered to stop and take a pic.) ...
This blank didn't have any deep cracks to worry about, but Chain Saw Gulch here was going to need to be handled...
No problem...I'll get to that in a bit. For now, I concentrated on shaping the bottom of the bowl and forming a tenon for the chuck. A few minutes later, the blank looked like this. You can see there's some nice figure in the bottom of the bowl...
After that was done, I moved over to the other side of the blank, took a few quick plunge cuts with a Ci1 tool, and took care of Chain Saw Gulch...
At that point, it was ready to reverse and mount in the chuck. You can see the blue lumber crayon line I used to mark the end of the part I was trying to cut away...
A few passes with a bowl gouge to face it off, and I had this. You'll notice the grain on this side of the blank is relatively plain. If I had made this side the bottom of the bowl instead of the top, most of the nice figure on the other side of the blank would have ended up on the floor...
Now the fun begins. I figure it'd be a waste to have all that nice chocolate end up on the floor as shavings, so I decided to core a small bowl out of the middle of the blank. Here's a pic of the weapon of choice, the McNaughton Bowl Saver...
Making a curved plunge cut into a piece of wood spinning at 600 or so RPM is always gets my attention, but I did stop after cutting a bit to take a pic...
Then another pic right as I finished cutting to the desired depth...
Did the bowl survive? Did Vaughn make a funnel? Tune in to the next post as the Michigan Chocolate Adventure continues.
This was the bigger of the two blanks Larry sent me. (As mentioned in this thread.) It started out at 12 x 12 x 5 inches. I cut it round on the bandsaw the night before last, and if you've been following along, you've already seen the pics of that. I didn't get any pics of the blank when I first mounted it, but here is is after a minute or two of spinning. (When I remembered to stop and take a pic.) ...
This blank didn't have any deep cracks to worry about, but Chain Saw Gulch here was going to need to be handled...
No problem...I'll get to that in a bit. For now, I concentrated on shaping the bottom of the bowl and forming a tenon for the chuck. A few minutes later, the blank looked like this. You can see there's some nice figure in the bottom of the bowl...
After that was done, I moved over to the other side of the blank, took a few quick plunge cuts with a Ci1 tool, and took care of Chain Saw Gulch...
At that point, it was ready to reverse and mount in the chuck. You can see the blue lumber crayon line I used to mark the end of the part I was trying to cut away...
A few passes with a bowl gouge to face it off, and I had this. You'll notice the grain on this side of the blank is relatively plain. If I had made this side the bottom of the bowl instead of the top, most of the nice figure on the other side of the blank would have ended up on the floor...
Now the fun begins. I figure it'd be a waste to have all that nice chocolate end up on the floor as shavings, so I decided to core a small bowl out of the middle of the blank. Here's a pic of the weapon of choice, the McNaughton Bowl Saver...
Making a curved plunge cut into a piece of wood spinning at 600 or so RPM is always gets my attention, but I did stop after cutting a bit to take a pic...
Then another pic right as I finished cutting to the desired depth...
Did the bowl survive? Did Vaughn make a funnel? Tune in to the next post as the Michigan Chocolate Adventure continues.