Mike Denny demonstrates how to turn a bowl without a 4-jaw chuck. The blank in this example was screwed to a faceplate. The ‘tenon’ on this bowl will need to be as tall as the screws were long. To use the tailstock to support the blank the bark would be removed in this natural edge bowl example to give the live center a secure surface to bite into. This blank was small enough to not need that support in Mike’s opinion.
The bowl blank would not be reversed in this technique so the outside of the bowl would be profiled and finished from ‘left to right’ cutting with the grain from smaller diameter to larger diameter at the rim. Next the interior of the bowl would be profiled and finished cutting with the grain from ‘right to left’ from the rim to the center of the bowl.
After the finishing cuts and some sanding the bowl is ready to be separated from the tenon.
The bark separated from this blank as the bowl interior was cut but the natural edge was still very impressive.
By: Mike Denny On: 05/18/2023
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