HF Maple Bowl

Highly figured fiddleback maple bowl with red chestnut spirit stain airbrushed onto the rim. 7 1/2" dia. x 2 1/4" tall, the "inner" bowl is 4 1/2" dia. and follows more of a U shape while the outside is more of a curved V shape. Has a great feel of heft and balance.

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Chris Wright

Registered: November 2004
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Date: Sat April 15, 2006
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Keywords: hf maple bowl

Comments

Gil

I like the dual look of this one a lot.
Is the wood dry?

#1 Sat April 15, 2006 2:23am

Larry Charlot

very smooth look to this, I like this very much.

#2 Sat April 15, 2006 4:04am

keith bundy

Very nice Chris.

#3 Sat April 15, 2006 4:21am

MIKE Durham

Mike Durham

I just like Maple, Very nice!

#4 Sat April 15, 2006 3:35pm

Chris Wright

Thanks everyone.
Gil, the wood was bone dry when turned and the finish is dry in the photo, the piece took the lacquer so well that even now days later it still looks wet. I have a blue one on the lathe now and 2 more blanks that will receive green and yellow. I really like the look and the technique to get the crisp edges is very simple.

What I did is to turn the outside first, then flip it into a chuck. Once on the chuck, I turned the face flat and sanded to 600. Then I used an airbrush with a 50/50 air to stain mix and airbrushed the entire face from center out. This works really well as the Chestnut Spirit Stains have a very thin penetration and almost no overspray when sprayed on. Then I turn the inner shape and sand, with the thin penetration, turning the inner bowl last yeilds a crisp edge. Flip it around in a jam chuck, finish turning the foot and then sand the outside starting at 120 to get the crisp edge on the outside back and then part it off the lathe.

#5 Mon April 17, 2006 5:19pm