It’s Monday…let’s make something! ~ Week 36
How is Christmas only a few weeks away?!? This past week I got into the barn a bit after our Thanksgiving company left! I made more ornaments and more antique pepper mills! But this morning, after dropping the kids off at school, I headed up to the barn to make something!
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Whenever I go to Woodcraft down in Seattle, I check to see if they have any Hawaiian Koa wood blanks…and if they do…I grab several. These blanks never disappoint! Every bowl I’ve made from them has been 100% unique and beautiful! And today’s is no exception!
I found the center of the blank, drilled a hole for the woodworm screw and mounted the blank to the lathe. When working with a square blank, the first thing you have to do is round the entire edge out. Then I cut the foot and began to shape the bowl. I wanted this one to have a different rim than I usually put on my bowls. I mean…Hawaiian Koa wood deserves nothing less!
Once I had the shape of the outside where I wanted it, I sanded and oiled it. Then turned the blank around in the chuck, and started working on the inside. I spent a bit of time trying to make sure the rim of the bowl was even thickness, but managed to get it where I liked it! Then it was time for more sanding and oiling!
I’m always a little nervous about putting bowls with thin rims like this onto the cole jaws, because I don’t want to crack the bowl. I did manage to get this one in just right so I could turn the foot off of it. Then, you guessed it, more sanding and oiling! And this little bowl was finished!
Every time I make a bowl, especially out of Hawaiian Koa, I can’t help but marvel at the beauty of such a simple object. I have four more of these blanks, and I think they will be the next four videos, what do you think? I hope you have a great week! And I’ll see you all back up in the barn next week!
