JET Tools - Lathe Projects - Turn A Bowl - Part 1 of 3

[Haz3rd]

I used that lathe in high school! It was pretty good.

[hendu3270]

beginner here, but I was under the impression a bowl gouge was for turning the inside of the bowl? Wouldn't you just use a roughing gouge or perhaps a spindle gouge to "round" or true up the outside when first starting? Looks good by the way.

[sundance66]

What happened to the sound after the opening and before the closing music?

Some commentary would be useful.

[bloddynose13]

beautiful



[KatieCottingham]

I'm new to turning and have been taught to always work down hill to keep better control of the gouge but here he's obviously working up hill.

My question is this: When it comes to turning up hill is it safe and are there specific times when doing so would be an advantage?

Any comments more experienced turners can offer on this though would be great!

Thanks!

[TheFishingschool]

2 words.....ring, watch

[awesomestuff121]

I was wondering if you need to turn the speed down even if the lathe is bolted in to a table? I was wondering because on my lathe it is a real big pain to change the speeds.

[eutuller]

thanks a lot mate ! you are a great teacher, and now you have a fan here in brazil ! hope i buy a jet lathe soon !

[cdeesampson]

what brand of tools are you using? Jet?

[TeenWoodworker]

This is probably a stupid question but can you turn a bowl using the end grain.

[angersola47]

where do you get a lathe

[Oneandoneself]

Mini lathe for a massive bowl :)

[cjhwrestler1]

in all honesty im 14 you need to lower the band saw blade thing!!

[jbethel3321]

HAHA he wants to make a bowl so he goes out to his backyard and cuts down a tree!

[JETTOOLSUSA]

when you live on 80 acres you can do that...

[chompychomps]

Was that the tailstock shaking right before 5 minutes?

[JETTOOLSUSA]

Actually the whole machine was moving. It is not uncommon for a lathe to give a bit when rounding a bowl from the rough blank. That's why you always make sure your raw workpiece is solidly anchored between headstock and tailstock before turning on the machine. You'll notice we spent quite a bit of time explaining the how to do that safely. Thanks for your comment!

[chompychomps]

Well, it was hard to be sure, due to the hand-held shot, but I have seen a few lathes that move due the workpiece's eccentricity at this stage and that sure looked the same. Although it might be common to see a lathe shake, it isn't necessary to endure that and a step up in lathes is a good idea. So is a larger gouge for roughing! Than you.

[JETTOOLSUSA]

Good Call - yes you can always get a bigger lathe (honestly we won't mind if you want to invest in a bigger one from Jet) we just wanted to show that you can do work like this on a smaller lathe too. Great suggestion on the larger gouge - thats a great tip for everyone.

[chompychomps]

I will give them every consideration when I go to buy the next one. Thanks.

[euphguard]

No kidding, I was rounding off a piece of rough, maple, maybe 6 or 7 inches across and i forgot to turn the speed down. I fixed it after about 3 seconds though because I nearly shook my lathe off the table. It's since been bolted down.

[ColoradoHermit]

Very interesting! I was a machinist working with metals for 20 years (now disabled) and if I was doing this, after turning the work piece around the first thing I would have done would be to face it off. Squaring off the face removing all the bark and making it flat, then start hollowing it out. I would have been wrong. I just got my first wood lathe, a Jet 10x14 VS and this is going to be more fun & different than I thought. ;-) Thanks for the video & I hope you do some more of them.

[JETTOOLSUSA]

if you want to make a natural edge bowl, do what we did. For a flat edge you would start off with that square face. Great Comment!

[ColoradoHermit]

Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't get that you were making a "natural edge bowl" until I got to the final video. If you said anything about it at the start I missed it. This was a nice set of videos and I got a lot out of them. Do you think you could do one on cutting a captive ring?

[JETTOOLSUSA]

we've got a lot on our shooting schedule right now - I'll see what we can do.

[gunsnosyneighbor]

better than most commercial videos

[JETTOOLSUSA]

That's the old JET 10"x14" Mini - I love it - but they don't make it anymore. They actually tweaked it a bit and re-released it as an indexing mini lathe.

[crazywoodworker]

This is so cool -I never thought you could turn something like this on a small lathe! What lathe did you use for this?