I dont know if its already been suggested but if you are going to glue the base on to thicken the wood up, why not cut the top part out with a jigsaw before you glue the two parts together saving all that drilling out, if you were careful enough with a bobbin sander you wouldn`t even need to rout it.
@Strykercom1 Just keep in mind a straight bit gives you square corners, which aren't quite as nice as the bullnose corners from the special bowl bit. And if you use a bull nose bit with a collar, you need to make an expanded version of the template to account for the offset between the collar and the bit (unless you can manage to get the collar nice and flush with the cutting edge of the bit.
@TheWoodWhisperer the clearance between my collar and the bit is only about a 1/16 of an inch so i guess in my case it would work. And thats true about the straight bit and the square corners. And srry about all the typos haha
@jdubb1265 I actually think it would help a little. The first coat of an oil finish will be rough too, and pre-raising the grain might help keep that initial coat a little smoother. But really, its probably not worth the extra effort.
I saw a very similar thing made on SDPB, what they showed was a few different species laminated to attain a "striped" look. You could even do this with layers varying in thicknesses. also, another thing to do when jointing a surface with plane, a good thing to do is to apply chalk to the surface so you can see low areas a little better.
I saw a very similar thing made on SDPB, what they showed was a few different species laminated to attain a "striped" look. You could even do this with layers varying in thicknesses.
@fvschie Perhaps. But not by any amount that it makes a real difference that i've noticed. If you want to plane with any real speed, you'll have to drag the plane back like that. And I have seen many hand tool nerds with much more experience than I have doing the same thing.
@TheWoodWhisperer Well, if it works for you, it's hard to argue. What I do is lift up the rear of the plane a little. Keeping the nose on the work piece means very little speed is lost, and in the end it's just a habit you can get into.
Awesome looking handplanes btw. Mine are old Stanleys; they get the job done well enough.
Not sure if anyone suggested but when sanding the inside of the bowl you could possibly use a sanding pad that would be attached to a drill of some kind to get the larger areas. Still need to do the tight corners by hand but at least the larger areas could be taken care of a bit quicker.
Thanks guys. Yall are fun. Sitting here in my CHU in Iraq, can't wait to get home to start some wood working. You've given me some great ideas and knowledge...just some nice things to think about while I'm here. Thank you.
Nice. "down, down, down until you hit bottom" sounds like my first marriage...since you were laminating the stock, you could have roughed out the top piece near the layout line with a jigsaw and avoided a lot of the drilling.
ok, i am also a fan of funny shirts....so before i finish this vid i need to let you know i love the mushroom shirt! funny. and i need to know if there is one place you buy your shirts??
I'm surprised that you didn't use the router to flatten the piece of wood like you did for the bottom of the bowl. I don't own a planer so I use a router to flatten everything that's bent.
@wildwill1970 Well I don't have a jig set up for that operation, but that's certainly a legitimate way to go about it. The hand plane is just another way to skint the cat. :)
Great vid man I always use my belt sander to flaten wide pieces I only have 4 inch jointer. my hand plane is a great tool but I ant good with it at all haha. Excellent project.
@lucserre I suppose you could. But for most of the operation, you can see where you're going and monitor your progress, which is pretty nice. But toward the end you are pretty much flying blind anyway. So I guess at that point it wouldn't matter if you are upside down on a table.
When you trace the inside edge with a compass to get a uniform distance for the lip, any tips or tricks for doing this? The problem I run into is keeping the compass at max distance during the trace while pivoting. Thanks.
@pberglin The only trick is to make sure you keep it a close to perpendicular to your line as possible. So when I get to the tricky areas, I'll put down 5 or 6 pencil strokes just to make sure I got it. Even with a few stray marks, its pretty clear where the real line should be. All in all, its not too difficult. And there's a little fudge room on this one.
Or people that are not the least bit interested in woodworking but always get it recommended and thumb it down to make it stop to get better recommendations instead. :)
I do that all the time with recommendations i'm not the least bit interested in,
it actually solves the problem. FYI: I did not thumb this one down, i love his stuff.
But just trying to reveal a possible answer to this question.
@Xar0mir Are you sure that's how it works? I was under the impression that the thumbs up/down was a simple replacement for the 5 star rating system and didn't affect your recommendations. If its there to help streamline your recommendations, its a bad idea to make that information public.
We will never know for sure, unless the developers speak out and i doubt that they will do, but i guess that it actually may work that way. Many others also seem to think that, or that's how i explained it to myself how some videos round up a pretty substantial amount of thumb downs, without presenting any kind of opinion or possibly offensive material, but then a users rating may be a good indicator of what they like and dislike, it would be easy to (ab)use this information.
@TheWoodWhisperer Sometimes people click the wrong thumb in error or accidently. This is a typical problem with many web sites and windows. People designing these sites often have extra large screens, top quality mice and similar and tend to make buttons too close together for those with less sophisticated equipment, reduced vision, lower motor skills and such. I've seen the same problem in woodworking equipment where buttons/controls are too close together for fat fingers or the colour blind.
It appears as though it would be beneficial it keep the lower piece of wood somewhat oversized as to provide a small "ledge" in order to clamp the entire piece to a bench to minimize movement of the overall piece as you use the router -- as you have done -- intentionally or by "mistake" ;)
Have you ever tried an angle grinder with saburr-tooth carbid disks? Incredibly messy and loud, but I can make a bowl like that, or freeform, in minutes.
More my style perhaps, but in your case to get rid of the material you did with the forstner bit a lot faster.
@Mueiwark I haven't tried those before but I do have an angle grinder with an Arbor Tech blade. That thing can make some chips fly in a hurry! I'll have to try that on my next one.
When glueing the two bits of timber together ,does it matter which way the end grain goes ,like when you glue side to side you alternate the way the end grain goes.
@benny5825 Well I don't actually worry about alternating grain. I arrange grain so that the best face is up. And on a glueup like this, I arrange the grain so the the end grain looks the most pleasing.
@roman3of23 i no bud, he inspired me to keep going into wood working.....atm im buying my tools to get started lol....but yea these videos help me alot , im his fan xD
Mate - you are great. Thanks for this. I like the way that you speak quickly and don't dawdle. Brilliant
SuperDGRL 4 months ago
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing.
mikel985 4 months ago in playlist More videos from TheWoodWhisperer
What kind of wood is that? plz
kke76 5 months ago
@kke76 mahogany
TheWoodWhisperer 5 months ago
is there a video you know of how to properly set up a block plane?
Pedrofreestyle97 7 months ago
@Pedrofreestyle97 I haven't made one myself, sorry.
TheWoodWhisperer 7 months ago
I dont know if its already been suggested but if you are going to glue the base on to thicken the wood up, why not cut the top part out with a jigsaw before you glue the two parts together saving all that drilling out, if you were careful enough with a bobbin sander you wouldn`t even need to rout it.
fergawdsache 9 months ago
you dont nescesarilly need one of those special bits
a strait cutting bit or a round nose bit equipted with a coller will work just as well
Strykercom1 11 months ago
@Strykercom1 Just keep in mind a straight bit gives you square corners, which aren't quite as nice as the bullnose corners from the special bowl bit. And if you use a bull nose bit with a collar, you need to make an expanded version of the template to account for the offset between the collar and the bit (unless you can manage to get the collar nice and flush with the cutting edge of the bit.
TheWoodWhisperer 11 months ago
@TheWoodWhisperer the clearance between my collar and the bit is only about a 1/16 of an inch so i guess in my case it would work. And thats true about the straight bit and the square corners. And srry about all the typos haha
Strykercom1 10 months ago
The ending, was how 2 of 3 kids were conceived grubbing down on chocolate... Nuff said.
Aharndts 1 year ago
Would it be helpful to spray a project with water to raise the grain if I'm using oili based finishes or is that just overkill?
jdubb1265 1 year ago
@jdubb1265 I actually think it would help a little. The first coat of an oil finish will be rough too, and pre-raising the grain might help keep that initial coat a little smoother. But really, its probably not worth the extra effort.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
Hi.
Great video and great project.
I bought my CMT bowl set year ago but still don't have time and material for fun.
You say that cant joint that size board. Did You know funny router jig called ski for this type work ?
Decodrew 1 year ago
@Decodrew Yeah I've seen people do full bench tops with that method. Works rather well if you have the setup for it.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait..... that bag full of candy lasted you more then 5 minutes? i dont believe that
Ditre 1 year ago
Great video... but the ending is the best!! Thanks for another great Video Mark.
woodengamer 1 year ago
This totally inspires me to work with wood. You did a great job, very inspiring. Thanks!
Undeworld667 1 year ago
you should make a bow :D
sikke3 1 year ago
I saw a very similar thing made on SDPB, what they showed was a few different species laminated to attain a "striped" look. You could even do this with layers varying in thicknesses. also, another thing to do when jointing a surface with plane, a good thing to do is to apply chalk to the surface so you can see low areas a little better.
jdrury 1 year ago
I saw a very similar thing made on SDPB, what they showed was a few different species laminated to attain a "striped" look. You could even do this with layers varying in thicknesses.
jdrury 1 year ago
"Hurtin' my knees sump'n fierce!" lmao
warsmith40k 1 year ago
Request: Don't have children. We can't have anything coming between us and our YouTube woodworking fix!
dirtyproduction 1 year ago
It looks like you're dragging the plane backwards over the wood. I'm pretty sure that dulls the blades earlier?
Awesome bowl!
fvschie 1 year ago
@fvschie Perhaps. But not by any amount that it makes a real difference that i've noticed. If you want to plane with any real speed, you'll have to drag the plane back like that. And I have seen many hand tool nerds with much more experience than I have doing the same thing.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
@TheWoodWhisperer Well, if it works for you, it's hard to argue. What I do is lift up the rear of the plane a little. Keeping the nose on the work piece means very little speed is lost, and in the end it's just a habit you can get into.
Awesome looking handplanes btw. Mine are old Stanleys; they get the job done well enough.
fvschie 1 year ago
Not sure if anyone suggested but when sanding the inside of the bowl you could possibly use a sanding pad that would be attached to a drill of some kind to get the larger areas. Still need to do the tight corners by hand but at least the larger areas could be taken care of a bit quicker.
dgmunch 1 year ago
From one Chocoholic to another, Great Video, and an Awesome gift idea.
I'll be staying tuned in for you next project from all the way down in Tasmania Australia.
P.S. have you ever thought about a making a Puzzle Box?
jmoss1234 1 year ago
@LFWOL, nah, thats an ancient nerdjoke printed literally
somberlight 1 year ago
Great video! Love the project!
Mrcaffinebean 1 year ago
Thanks guys. Yall are fun. Sitting here in my CHU in Iraq, can't wait to get home to start some wood working. You've given me some great ideas and knowledge...just some nice things to think about while I'm here. Thank you.
unmik1422 1 year ago
@unmik1422 Thanks for your service brother!
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
Nice. "down, down, down until you hit bottom" sounds like my first marriage...since you were laminating the stock, you could have roughed out the top piece near the layout line with a jigsaw and avoided a lot of the drilling.
MJL21194 1 year ago
ok, i am also a fan of funny shirts....so before i finish this vid i need to let you know i love the mushroom shirt! funny. and i need to know if there is one place you buy your shirts??
DougFnDrake 1 year ago
@DougFnDrake haha well we get them from all over. Target, WalMart, Kohls, and of course the web.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
Great vid, I really liked the end there.
I'm surprised that you didn't use the router to flatten the piece of wood like you did for the bottom of the bowl. I don't own a planer so I use a router to flatten everything that's bent.
wildwill1970 1 year ago
@wildwill1970 Well I don't have a jig set up for that operation, but that's certainly a legitimate way to go about it. The hand plane is just another way to skint the cat. :)
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
Great vid man I always use my belt sander to flaten wide pieces I only have 4 inch jointer. my hand plane is a great tool but I ant good with it at all haha. Excellent project.
fenderpaman16 1 year ago
Excellent piece of work again Mark and I mean both the bowl and the video. You keep those vids coming, we'll be enjoying them from The Netherlands.
Thanks,
Hans
P.S. I think @pberglin is right about the blue ones ...
hansvledder 1 year ago
Would you ever consider using a router table with guard removed, turn the work piece upside down for this project?
lucserre 1 year ago
@lucserre I suppose you could. But for most of the operation, you can see where you're going and monitor your progress, which is pretty nice. But toward the end you are pretty much flying blind anyway. So I guess at that point it wouldn't matter if you are upside down on a table.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
I want your workshop so badly. Awesome job (Y)
Skandoro 1 year ago
When you trace the inside edge with a compass to get a uniform distance for the lip, any tips or tricks for doing this? The problem I run into is keeping the compass at max distance during the trace while pivoting. Thanks.
PS. Don't eat the blue M&Ms : )
pberglin 1 year ago
@pberglin The only trick is to make sure you keep it a close to perpendicular to your line as possible. So when I get to the tricky areas, I'll put down 5 or 6 pencil strokes just to make sure I got it. Even with a few stray marks, its pretty clear where the real line should be. All in all, its not too difficult. And there's a little fudge room on this one.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
Who would thumb down this video? *boggle*
At any rate, another nice project, Mark. Keep up the good work.
Discordanian 1 year ago
@Discordanian bitter, small-minded people with nothing better to do, lol.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
@TheWoodWhisperer
Or people that are not the least bit interested in woodworking but always get it recommended and thumb it down to make it stop to get better recommendations instead. :)
I do that all the time with recommendations i'm not the least bit interested in,
it actually solves the problem. FYI: I did not thumb this one down, i love his stuff.
But just trying to reveal a possible answer to this question.
Xar0mir 1 year ago
@Xar0mir Are you sure that's how it works? I was under the impression that the thumbs up/down was a simple replacement for the 5 star rating system and didn't affect your recommendations. If its there to help streamline your recommendations, its a bad idea to make that information public.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
@TheWoodWhisperer
We will never know for sure, unless the developers speak out and i doubt that they will do, but i guess that it actually may work that way. Many others also seem to think that, or that's how i explained it to myself how some videos round up a pretty substantial amount of thumb downs, without presenting any kind of opinion or possibly offensive material, but then a users rating may be a good indicator of what they like and dislike, it would be easy to (ab)use this information.
Xar0mir 1 year ago
@TheWoodWhisperer Sometimes people click the wrong thumb in error or accidently. This is a typical problem with many web sites and windows. People designing these sites often have extra large screens, top quality mice and similar and tend to make buttons too close together for those with less sophisticated equipment, reduced vision, lower motor skills and such. I've seen the same problem in woodworking equipment where buttons/controls are too close together for fat fingers or the colour blind.
DocSatori 1 year ago
It appears as though it would be beneficial it keep the lower piece of wood somewhat oversized as to provide a small "ledge" in order to clamp the entire piece to a bench to minimize movement of the overall piece as you use the router -- as you have done -- intentionally or by "mistake" ;)
st0rmy1 1 year ago
@st0rmy1 true. So then, uhhh.... That was the plan the whole time. :)
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
nice project, just one question. what brand of sandpaper do you use?
ironlionkalo 1 year ago
@ironlionkalo Most times i pick up Norton 3X
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
that is a great bowl to make i think i will do it with my woodwork class thanks for the idea
myfaceback100 1 year ago
Have you ever tried an angle grinder with saburr-tooth carbid disks? Incredibly messy and loud, but I can make a bowl like that, or freeform, in minutes.
More my style perhaps, but in your case to get rid of the material you did with the forstner bit a lot faster.
Mueiwark 1 year ago
@Mueiwark I haven't tried those before but I do have an angle grinder with an Arbor Tech blade. That thing can make some chips fly in a hurry! I'll have to try that on my next one.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
"Well, who's fault is that" Hilarious comment mister!!! : )
Great and informativ video!!! Thanks. /Nic.
findingusernamesux11 1 year ago
HAHAHAHA my best regards to your wife... maybe she can make some woodworking project with you...
immemous 1 year ago
Nice job, and looks like a fun project....
Marcelmx3 1 year ago
When glueing the two bits of timber together ,does it matter which way the end grain goes ,like when you glue side to side you alternate the way the end grain goes.
benny5825 1 year ago
@benny5825 Well I don't actually worry about alternating grain. I arrange grain so that the best face is up. And on a glueup like this, I arrange the grain so the the end grain looks the most pleasing.
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
26 min of my life well spent
quinton98 1 year ago
ending .... classic lol
heliosc7 1 year ago
You two are hilarious. That ledge needs a nice wood counter extension. :) Nice vid Mark.
BJEAKE 1 year ago
Awesome job! How can you not be a fan of this guy?
roman3of23 1 year ago 8
@roman3of23 I ask myself that same question every day roman. :) Haha! Thanks for watching my friend!
TheWoodWhisperer 1 year ago
@roman3of23 i no bud, he inspired me to keep going into wood working.....atm im buying my tools to get started lol....but yea these videos help me alot , im his fan xD
wateromega 1 year ago