{"id":153,"date":"2015-01-19T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T05:34:25","slug":"claro-walnut-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Claro Walnut Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bowl<\/a><\/p>\n

This is bowl #1, the first bowl I ever turned.\u00a0\u00a0 It was made from a small block of Claro walnut, about 6″ square.\u00a0 I would encourage anyone thinking of learning to turn bowls on a lathe to go for it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not easy at first, but as with anything, perseverance pays off.\u00a0 If you don’t have the opportunity to learn in a class or from an experienced turner in person, as I didn’t, then I can highly recommend Richard Raffan’s video, “Turning Wood<\/strong>,” published by Taunton Press<\/strong>.\u00a0 Raffan’s books on turning are an inferior substitute for seeing the techniques explained and demonstrated in the video.\u00a0 \u00a0 (Click on any image to enlarge)<\/p>\n

Here’s a partial picture of the lightweight 1\/2 HP Delta wood lathe I\u00a0 started with.<\/p>\n

\"Walnut<\/a><\/p>\n

I sold this lathe because it was too light, under powered, and of dubious quality.\u00a0 Buy the heaviest and best lathe you can afford.\u00a0 If turning bowls is what you want to do, I also recommend that you buy heavier duty, high speed steel (HSS) turning tools.\u00a0\u00a0 A 3\/8″ thick bowl scraper will be much easier to control and yield better results than one 1\/4″ thick.\u00a0 The same goes for\u00a0 gouges, heavier duty is better for bowls.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the thicker, heavier tool will be better at dampening vibration.\u00a0 This is especially true the further the cutting edge of the scraper or gouge is extended out over the tool rest, which happens when hollowing the interior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is bowl #1, the first bowl I ever turned.\u00a0\u00a0 It was made from a small block of Claro walnut, about 6″ square.\u00a0 I would encourage anyone thinking of learning to turn bowls on a lathe to go for it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s not easy at first, but as with anything, perseverance pays off.\u00a0 If you don’t … Continue reading Claro Walnut Bowl<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[31,33,34,35,36],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowls-2","tag-bowl-turning","tag-claro-walnut","tag-richard-raffan","tag-taunton-press","tag-wood-lathe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}