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Pear log split in half with an electric chainsaw. Log was layed on it's side, and cut in half in 4 steps...
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The one log half was cut in 2 pieces.
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I have a bunch of "circles" that I can choose from as a circle template... some are backing plates, others are sanding discs, some are just blank circles of different diameter. I choose the biggest one that'll fit on the log, as shown next.
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Here's the circle template screwed onto the bark side of the log chunk.
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Using the template to cut a circle from the log chunk
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Here's the completed circle cut from the log.
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Here's the blank mounted to a face plate, ready to be rolled by hand to check balance. Then I turn the lathe on at the slowest speed for a brief second to see if all's well... If not, I'll remount the blank and try again.
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Slowly start rounding the blank with a bowl gouge...
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Now that the blank is rounded and balanced and is running smoothly, I pick up the speed and start shaping the bowl.
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Here I've started shaping the bowl and have started forming the dovetail shaped tenon that'll be inserted into my Nova chuck....
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Here's the completed dovetail tenon. I use the bowl gouge to get it close, then I switch to a V shaped scraper, then finally a skew to get the tenon flat and at the right "dovetail" angle
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OK... face plate has been rmoved, and the bowl blank has been chucked into the Nova...
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Starting to hollow it out.....
(look Ma, only 1 hand!)
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As the bowl get hollower, I switch to a bowl rest and finish hollowing it out....
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I didn't have a brown paper bag handy, so I stuffed the bowl into a plastic bag with a bunch of it;s own shavings and set it aside to dry for a month or two....
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