First bowl from a log


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Looks like you are getting the hang of it !

If you weigh the bowl on a digital kitchen scale and track the weight when it stabilizes you can lightly reshape a bowl turned from green or air dried wood .It helps if you leave the walls and lip a bit thicker in case drying leaves the bowl slightly oval shaped.

 

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Poplar...which makes it even better for practice!

Yeah Steve, I left the walls way too thin...hopefully by blank #5 I'll get it down.

This one flew across the room on a catch....which was fun.

That lathe shook like all hell though with a big unbalanced blank on it. Need to either get some ballast weight under it, or tapcon the feet to my basement slab

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