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This photograph shows a selection of bowls that I found around the house.
Many more have been sold to people, so these are the 'left-overs'.
Top (left to right): Elm bowl (7"), small undercut burr elm bowl (4"), doughnut style
spalted beech bowl (5"), beech and pine eggs, standard elm
bowl with flat base (7"). Bottom: Large burr elm bowl (12"), undercut elm bowl (10"), and
natural yellow Berberis root bowl (5").
Another collection of my bowls which were all made this summer.
Base of large burr elm bowl
The biggest bowl I have turned (about 12 inches - my lathe is too fast to go bigger) made
so that the speckling pattern produced by the burr is in the middle of the base.
Base of small undercut burr elm bowl
The speckling on this piece of wood is very detailed, and covers the entire bowl. It was
made completely out of burr, with no plain grain at all. There is also a decorative hole
in one side where the surface of the burr became irregular.
The workshop
I built the bench for the lathe specially to dampen vibration as much as possible. I
screwed it into the walls of this corner and bolted it to the floor. The top is almost 5
inches thick.
My lathe
It is a Record DML 24X with an almost-finished bowl on the chuck. This shows the
extension I built for my tool rest so I could turn bigger bowls.
10" elm bowl with foot
Sold (a bit cheaply!) for £10 (about $15)
Base of flat base elm bowl (above)
I made this bowl by glueing the base to another piece of wood with hot-melt glue, and
then turning it.
Warped, naturally yellow, 4" Berberis root bowl
Looks very strange!
Base of the Berberis bowl
I had to sand the foot to make the bowl stand up without falling over!
4" burr elm bowl
With decorative hole
4" doughnut shaped beech bowl
With spalting.
2" pine egg
These are good for presents, and show off the wood well.
