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Rod’s Tool Rest
Rod developed two items as bowl turning aids. The first is a tool rest with a cutout that follows the contour of the bowl. The PVC Plastic fitting is a height adjustment to allow movement of the rest without changing height.
Rod’s bowl gauge
The second item is a gauge that allows scribing the inside of a rough turned bowl with contour lines. The bowl is turned down until the contour lines disappear yielding a bowl of uniform predetermined thickness.
Rod also provided on his CA glue finish, see here. The Guild thanked Rod for providing detailed information on his innovative finish.
Some of the show and tell items:
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- Brian’s bowl broke as a result of weak glue bond
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- Brian’s bowl broke as a result of weak glue bond
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- Les’ turnings
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- Brian’s bull pine bowl
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- Buck’s ironwood bowl
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- Lee’s small hammers
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- Rod’s olive wood bowl
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- Tony’s redwood bowls
Lee gave a demonstration of turning a natural edge bowl.
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- Mount bowl with bark toward headstock
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- Shape outside
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- Hollow out the inside
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- Lee’s simple tool to gage wall thickness.
