On Sept 15 my woodworking and turning Club hosted John Beavers to come and show us how he does his woodturnings.   I will be showing afew pictures of everthing what happened and how he did it.

 

This is a one day class I had taken with him 2 weeks ago.


There was also a hands on class with everyone making a bowl like he makes also, however, I could not all the 9 hours nor the money.

If you notice the drawing on the chart he only has one cut on the wood however, you would have to make another cut about 1/4" to 3/8" thick depending on the size of your bowl and how it looks

 

This is one of his bowls with the insert made smooth with the bowl

 

 

Here is another bowl with what I call wings

 

 

 

Inside of same bowl, He said afterwards he bleached the outside top of this bowl

 

 

 

Picture of me and him.  As you can see I am the fat one with the happy face and wheelchair

 

 

How he does it is turn the bowl or vase on its side and used a jig he made to cut the bowl two times with the middle ring being 1/4" to 3/8" thick.

The bowl is turned to about 3/4" to 1" thick and then bandsawn to above damentions.

Then he takes a wood spacer which is the thickness the middle ring is and makes it 1/4" to 3/8" smaller. This piece is covered with rags and soaked in water and put in a micro wave for 1 mnute and sqeezed between the top and bottom of the bowl

The bottom of the bowl is mounted in a chuck first, then the small spacer, then the top of the bowl with a solid wood plate put over the bowl top and then the tail stock brought up and everything sqeezed
together for about 20 minutes.

When it is dry he uses the bowl gouge to bring the outsides of the top and bottom of the bowl to the recessed center ring, sands and finishes the bowl then.

When he releases the tail stock and takes out the center spacer, he takes the chuck off of the lathe and takes it to a table. There he glues the top, bottom and the original center peice back together and remounts it all back on the lathe and squeezes all back together again for 3 hours.

Then the finish is done and as you see on the 3rd picture how his bowls work out.

He sells plans for his jig for the bandsaw, however, I gave him $35 and he is making one for me and shipping to me also.

I hope I explained it well. If you have any questions just ask.

This is my first one and I really enjoyed it.

Arlin


PS - If you guys ever get a chance with your woodturning club I highly recemmond him and everyone else said he was the best they ever had and explained everything in detail well.

 

Also If any of you guys and gals would be interested I will have a get together at my house nest year and we can all do some turning and woodworking and cut afew Blackwalnut trees down to use and or give pieces away.

 

I would like to know how many people would like to come in the end of May and beginning of June so I can plan things and have businesses over and everyone can bring woods and tools to trade.

 

Just pm me.  I sure would love to have everyone here and get to know everyone better.

 

Arlin

That was a great class Arlin! Way cool and I love the work he turns out. That rope a dope around the bowl is amazing. Arlin, when you get your event nailed down don't forget, we have an event promotion feature here on our site where you can tell all about it. Keep us informed of your get together, it sounds like a great time! Thanks for the lengthy and detailed post on the this class, looks like it was a fun time had by all! Just what the doctor ordered eh!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
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Very nice class Arlin, Certainly that is one of the best ways to learn by sharing and watching someone do it right in front of you.

Hope it works out for your event and you get lots of attendance.

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Beautiful creations !!! 

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