Make a $20 Bowl in 20 Minutes 

Thanks and sorry for butchering your English with my W. TX accent.

Hey, no criticism from me, my friend. I understood all you said and will spend some time looking at more of your videos. Just because we get older, doesn't mean we should stop trying to learn and good teachers like you make learning easier.

What oil do you put on your bowls

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Brandon, he's using "milk paint", for the paint. He says he "oils" them, then finishes them with paste wax on the outside. I am guessing his oil is a mineral oil, but he doesn't actually say that anywhere.

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Completely agree. I was just thinking about a comment like this because it's amazing how useless TV shows are at teaching compared to watching this master. This is just so much better!

Ya, who wants to listen so some one trying to be an amature entertainer,... not.

My only question is whether the footage is real. Sure they fired a nuclear canon, and sure there is footage of buildings and trees being vaporized, but did they happen on the same test. If not, it is fake.

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LLB LLB yep it happens.. recently found a bunch of used tools for a great price, including a lathe and its tools. Inpick them up next week, I am so excited!

Thats exactly how I ended up with a lathe in my garage!

you're not the only one who wants a lathe now

lol ! I pretty much did the same thing !

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Same situation here. I did some turning back in the sixties then Vietnam and then life got in my way. I picked up a lathe a couple of years ago and then cancer from my time in Vietnam took a year from me. Fixin to start turning again and I’m so glad I found this channel. Thanks.

@@papasteve215 You've been busy....with nam and life and cancer. Hope ya get better and stay healthy.. This guy makes it looks easy and quick... Cheers

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10 hours into a wooden spoon, lol haha. So true, so true

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Great, and thanks.

I want to turn a bowl myself one day! I dont have access to any wood so im just turning firewood at the moment..I really hope I will find some wood here in norway soon! :) thanks for the video, its was nice to watch a "simpler" explanation

Svart-Kvit buy an axe, find a forest, cut trees.

Check out his video on free wood. He explains every step of the process. From finding to drying. This channel is very informative.

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Me too!

Holy crap it felt like 10 mins

Ha I was think - what do you mean it was 51 minutes?! Great video. Dementia has robbed my Dad of any memory of turning bowls. He did beautiful work and I wish I had paid attention more. Now I have stared at the lathe for the past year and have started to watch 51 minute videos about it at 4 AM. 🤷‍♀️

Shhhh... I'm an old codger too. Also, Thanks!

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Yes, yes you do. You'll love it.

I also definitely need to make that sled

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Thanks but there's lots more good out there too.

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You saw the finished product before watching the video. Check out the thumbnail.

Make a mess.

sounds like enjoyable woodworking to me.

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Thanks Nick. Long form ain't that popular but it's where I think I do the most good. Time will tell....

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More work for a little less money consistently.

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Same for my spouse! I didn't tell him it would be 50 minutes on purpose, then forgot until it was over.

can't tell if you're saying I'm preachy, high or just fat.

wortheffort lol

Worththeeffort: You at times in the video remind me of the ex-Rev. The resemblance is in your face. nice Video. Thumbs up!

I like him...some wood guys on RU-vid are pretentious !@#$%^&* $

Billy Mays. Nice vid on marketing tho.

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They cool off by the time they reach arm. It's that part right below your knuckle that gets slow cooked. Thanks.

Ah, makes sense! I have no experience using a lathe, so that's good to know.

go for it

I use walnut oil from the grocer because it's cheap and fully cures in a few days.

wortheffort thank you.

I am allergic to nuts . Does that matter?

Patty, I'm no expert on allergies, but I would say 'yes, it probably matters.' My favourite is Watco Danish Oil. It's a mixture of linseed oil and varnish. It penetrates, and hardens over time. The outside is still essentially raw wood, that you can re-oil anytime you like, but it hardens on the inside, and gets harder and harder over time. I have some solid wood furniture that I made about 20 years ago, and all I have ever done to it is oil it. Now, it is hard as marble, but can still be cleaned up with a bit of oil, and the grain pops like it's brand new. Having said that, oil is oil...... kind of. There are oils - like linseed - that penetrate well. And there are sometimes blends - like Watco, and others - that are linseed and varnish. But, basically, oil is oil. Linseed is a vegetable oil. Why not canola oil? Why not flax seed oil? Worth The Effort says he uses walnut oil. Why not take a jar of peanut butter, open it up, pour the oil off, and use that? I've never used canola oil, or peanut oil, but I have used olive oil, and I have used single grade motor oil. Motor oil is vegetable oil - maybe with a bit of dinosaur mixed in. Lol. Both worked well. And, because oil is oil, if you try some kind of oil, and don't like it for some reason, you can simply go over it with another oil. I'll always use Watco Oil as my main stay, but I'd be interested in trying avocado oil, or coconut oil. Why not? Finish your stuff with avocado oil, and sell it at the market, marketed as 100% natural. It could be a winner! Lol.

Steve, I am looking at a foot of new, heavy snow, so before I die of shovelling, I want to say hi and thank you for your comment. I love helping my son in his woodworking shop, so I totally appreciate wood grain popping, we love finishes and paints and we have a couple of wonderful books about wood finishes, about varnish, wiping varnish, urethanes, etc. I can't remember our favorite finishes...Waterlox, is one for doors and floors. As I read your comment, I had to laugh because I am also allergic to flax/linseed oil, walnut oil, peanut oil, ...I really appreciate your experiences with different oils, and after I deal with this heavy snow, if I am still breathing, I will come back to your advice. You know, this has alerted me to be cautious of wooden bowls in general. We had a job last year of painting slices of dried oak which were art pieces. They were sawn slices of trees, dried and sanded into wavy discs that looked like large flower petals and shallow wavy plates. We used car paints...Kandy, with a laborious process of enhancing the drama of the wood rings witha white dye , then sprayed transparent Kolor base coats, then the Kandy Klear coats, with sanding between coats, then buffing, until they looked like jewels. Looking into the surface you could see the tree rings glowing. We had to stop because the paint began to develop a crack sometimes in the very center of the wood plates, and we would have to sand the whole thing down and redo it. We could not get a reliable process. But believe me, those things were really beautiful when they came out right. We just could not afford to do it because of the demand for perfection and the chancy nature of the wood.

Thin and even is the key as there will be no more stress in one area than another.

Thank you for your reply. I will give it a try with less worries.

@@wortheffort I love this tutorial and all of your videos! By the time you get to putting finish on about how much moisture would you say is still in the wood?

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you can bag em up and give em away at markets but most of the time I donate it to the land fill to help with decomposition and soil development.

You could also use it as tinder if you have a fire place or fire pit

wortheffort You can also bag them up and sell them as an 'all natural' mulch, soil additive, worm farm medium, or compost additive (as a brown material, which nobody ever has enough of in the summer). Can't use home depot shavings or sawdust because of all the pressure-treated stuff. Love the video. Keep it up!

Mart you can’t mix them in resin and turn it and get a cool result

You can also mix it with wax and sell them as fire starters.

Nothing secret, centuries old knowledge.

Sebastopolmark look at the video thumbnail or my Instagram acct.

I'ts not great, but not bad. You won't get rich.

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Thanks, I also have a "Woodturning Demystified" video out there if interested.

Get out there. Check you my Demystified video too.

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