Dave takes a deep breath, and begins.

See the bowl - be the bowl

Using a 3/8” gouge with a special grind, he begins to form the exterior by taking a medium light cut along the entire length.

Here’s the second pass. Note the size of the shavings.

And here’s pass number three. See how the shavings get a bit smaller.

On pass number four, they’re much smaller.

Using a random orbit sander and rotating the piece by hand, Dave takes the bowl from 80 grit up to at least 400 - and often higher.

Time for a bit of detailing, but not too much. Quite often, less is more.

Two vee cuts and a bead.

Not your everyday flap sander.

A little touch up at the foot.

We’re done outside, so let’s go inside.

Here, Dave sets up the vacuum chuck with a new piece of hugh tech gasket material - polyethylene foam packaging material (the thin stuff that protects TVs while they’re in their cardboard box).

Doesn’t take Dave very long to get a nicely proportioned bowl with a consistent thickness.

And we’re all done. It’s now time to rub in some of that special Lancaster Wax that he brews up in his laboratory.

For a more detailed write-up of this demo, be sure to check out our January, February, and March 2005 newsletters

Show & Tell

This is a shallow Cherry burl bowl by Mac Ray. About two inches high by twelve inches across. As of Sept. 2005, Mac still hasn’t finished the piece. He’s looking for those “just right” rocks to fill the holes. He has textured it however, and promises to bring to a meeting once it’s finally done.

Mac says, “Patience!”

Not sure what belongs to who in this shot.

The big bowl is David Lancaster’s; pretty sure that’s a segmented bowl by Tom Raymond; and the holey hollow form looks like something from Peter Asselyn. The blue, white, and purple thing is by Dixie. And I’m clueless as to the rest.

If you know, please enlighten me.

This is one of a set of three nested Maple burl bowls by David Lancaster

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