The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Pine bowl roughing - part 2

Here are 5 red pine natural bowls at the rough bowl stage with just the outsides rounded off.
These are the bowls you read about in Pine bowl roughing - part 1.



Here is a center-turned vase (not really a bowl mounted so the guts can be ripped out).


First it helps to drill a pilot home into the wood.

Next you rip the guts off. Here a scraper is reaming out the insides of the vase.


Here are all of the bowls (and one vase) with their guts ripped out.



You need to know when the bowl was made to sense how much water remains in the wood. So here you see the date written on the bottom of the bowls.



Here are the bowls wrapped in newspaper.

In three months TWW will make some lucky customers a bowl to donate to the Salvation Army store for a tax deduction.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

all i gotta say der tww is you got some mightynice lookin bowls der. da gonit anyways. we could hang dem on that da gon barbed wire fence out behind your place and i could come over with the 22 and we could have a heck of a good time. we could turn dem bowls into seives..or seeves..or sieves or whatever. keep you powder dry your friend in disgust hfec

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