Instructions for Winged Bowl

By Walter Jones

The blank I used was 1/2 a log of Osage Orange. [12" long 5" wide and 4 1/2" thick] I used a worm screw to hold the blank [Flat side] to the chuck with Masonite spacer between the wood and the chuck jaws. Slow speed [as the lathe will want to move around] The turning tool was a fingernail grind 1/2″ bowl gouge. BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU PUT YOUR HANDS AND THE TOOL ; Put the tool rest parallel to the wood as close as possible without touching. the gouge is applied to the wood with the flute rolled over to the left and the left cutting edge [lower edge] cutting the wood with the right edge [upper] about 1/16″ from touching Do not open up the gap between the upper cutter and the wood., It will result in a catch. Start shaping the wood to get a tenon while removing wood to create the wings. Create the wings before you get to much wood removed from the outside of the bowl. It is important to keep the mass of wood in the center to cut down on vibration in the wings. Leave enough wood to allow for sanding them smooth also some room for wood removal on the top side. You may want to have the rim of your bowl show on top as to make it look as if it comes through the plank creating the wings. You will need some room for sanding on top as well. After you have reversed the bowl for hollowing Clean up the wings and create any rim on the bowl you wish to. if you do this you need to make the rim the same diameter as the bow. coming up from the bottom. Otherwise it will not look right. Now that you have completed this part you can hollow out the bowl as if you were doing a regular bowl. [WATCH OUT FOR YOUR HANDS} When the bowl is completed. You then reverse chuck the bowl to clean up the bottom. Your choice of methods. i hope this is of some help. if you have any questions Please contact me at the store 727- 532- 6888 or home 727 734-4078 or wjones101@tampabay.rr.com Take care
Walter
And enjoy turning.