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Whether you are building a piece of furniture, a musical instrument or even a simple bowl, creating with walnut wood is going to make your project stunning. Woodworking expert Beth Ireland is going to tell us about working with walnut and show us how we can turn our own walnut bowl.
Materials:Pre cut walnut blank 10" x 10" x 2"Multiple grit sand paper Salad oil wood finish
Tools:Center finderPencil Faceplate Drill with bit and screws and sand paper buffer Lathe Bowl gouge Rag for finish soaking Chuck jaws and key
Direction:
1. Trace a circle on walnut blank with a compass and then cut out your circle with a band saw or jigsaw. 2. Find the center of both sides of the blank using the center finder. Lay it across your blank and make four marks all parallel and perpendicular, on both sides. You now know where your center is and having the center points will insure that your bowl is turning properly. 3. Screw a faceplate onto the side you want to be the top of bowl. Screw faceplate onto lathe. 4. Turn on lathe and start shaping the inside of the bowl using a bowl gouge. As the turning progresses, constantly evaluate form and occasionally stop to readjust the tool rest to keep it as close to the wood as possible. Keeping the gouge nice and sharp also important. 5. Keep bevel lightly rubbing the wood. Remember to relax. 6. Roll flute in direction of cut and get in close to lathe. This part will take some practice and placing your hands in right place will eventually allow you to feel the wood and how it comes apart) 7. After shaping exterior of bowl, turn a foot at bottom of the bowl using the same technique. This foot is a little jut out that you can use to hold the blank when you turn it around. 8. With a buffer, spin bowl on lathe and sand bottom with multiple grits of sand paper. Then soak a finish into wood. Use a salad bowl finish, which is a kind of varnish, to give bowl a finished look. 9. Take bowl off lathe and unscrew plate and remove it. Replace by screwing a chuck onto lathe and turn the bowl around. 10. You can now engage the little jut out into the chuck jaws. Tighten chuck with its key. 11. With same technique and tool as you turned outside of bowl, you will now turn out interior of bowl. 12. When you feel like you are finished, repeat sanding and oiling. 13. Your bowl is looking finished at this point, but you still have that little jut (called a tennon) unfinished. 14. Screw on a waste piece that is bigger than the bowl and press the bowl against it. Since you found the centers in step three, you know it is centered. 15. While the tail stock of the lathe pushes the bowl against the flat plate, turn rest of bottom. 16. Sand and finish. Remove from lathe and with a carving tool, cut last little nub off, sand and finish. Now you have a walnut bowl. Special Thanks: Supplies: Wood Blanks
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