How To Turn Bowls On Wood Lathe

Vases Need Slower RPM As They Become Thinner.

How to turn bowls on wood lathe. As bowls become thinner and thinner they also become weaker and weaker. For this step youll need to remove the tailstock and connect a faceplate and tenon. The hole is so you can work your chisel from the inside to outside toward the rim of the bowl.

Continue turning until the outer shape of the bowl is complete. Once satisfied with the fit apply medium-viscosity cyanoacrylate glue to the area around the tenon on the glue block spray catalyst on the foot of the bowl and bring the two together. I was fortunate to spend time with renowned craftsman Yoav Elkayam who very kindly allowed me to film a detailed tutorial on his process for turning a wooden.

Have the ONOff switch close by so that you can turn off the lathe in a hurry. Put your roughly shaped handle on the lathe and turn a short tenon on the end for the ferrule. Turn the lathe on and increase the speed slowly.

Then youll need to cut a recess into the bottom of the bowl to accommodate the bowl chuck that came with your lathe. Once you have the bowl on the lathe drill a hole in the center to start carving. And various types of tools used for shaping the wood.

So lets see how it works. Adjust the banjo often so that there is very little tool overhang. Chisel away until you reach the depth of the bowl.

Using the bowl gauge cut down the tenon as much as possible while still being careful to not loosen it from the lathe. Once the tenon is a manageable size remove the bowl from the lathe and hammer off the rest of the tenon with a hammer and chisel. Set the bowl gouge on the rest and see if the cutting edge of that gouge is at the center point of the bowl blank.