INTRO TO WOODTURNING '03
Session 3 of 4
for 11 to 18 year-old students
Spreading the fascination
to a younger generation!
Bob Gerald reviews the safety and lathe operation instructions taught previously. |
Students Dylan and Taylor get a closer look at the bowl's exterior form. |
Taylor & Dylan roughing their blanks. |
Sam and Susan refining their bowls' shapes.
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Taylor cuts his dovetail.
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Dylan using his gouge to do a scraping cut.
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Sam's making the wood curls fly! |
Susan boldly handles a final shear scrape with a large skew. |
Back to Lesson #2
On to Lesson #4
Session #3 started with a review of safety & tool use. Bob Gerald fastened a bowl blank to a faceplate, and proceeded to turn the outside of an 8" bowl, explaining grain orientation, toolrest height, and tool approach for each step.
Students then stepped to their own lathes and started roughing out the exterior shapes of their green wood bowls, supervised by WSWF volunteers. Roughing gouges were used to tame the wild blanks, then smaller wide-flute gouges started the transformation to actual bowl shapes.
Barry Finver was kept busy modifying deep-flute bowls gouges to a less aggressive angle as the students became ready to use them in refining the curved exterior of their bowls. Students then cut a dovetail in the bowl's base in preparation for the final class when the bowl blanks will be reverse mounted with 4-jaw chucks to complete the bowl's interior.
The bowls were coated with sealer to keep them damp until next class. Each bowl is as unique as the student who created it.
WSWF volunteers this week included Bob Gerald, John
Gerald, Barry Finver, Sy Plonsky, Ernie Dunning, Frank & Cheri Bauer,
Phil Morgan, and Ray Seguin.
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