Looks great, Peter! Of course, the funny thing to do would be to make a 1 inch bowl and present it to your neighbour saying it's all you could get from that log.
When your bowl dropped and you showed the damage, my crochet brain was like “ooooh, now he’s got the perfect yarn bowl!” Seriously, PB, the crochet and knitting community would buy hand turned yarn bowls faster than you could make them! My current yarn bowl is a big old 1970s wooden serving bowl that I grabbed at the thrift store and carved with my dremel. Yours would be much lovelier and you could combine wood and resin to make some neat designs. I’d love to see you turn the Loki bowl into a yarn bowl! (Talking about the kind that has a spiral cut out to feed yarn through for fiber crafts, not the decorative kind that doesn’t actually do anything)
@@DawnShipley1977 Depends on how you buy your yarn. If it's the twisted hanks, then balling is a must. I'll also ball my hollowed-out skeins once they start to turn messy. I don't have a yarn bowl yet, but I can definitely see using once rather than having to chase after a ball once it invariably starts rolling away from you.
Yes. If you buy yarn from indie dyers, it comes in hanks and must be caked or balled. And not all skeins are center pull. I also find that my cats leave my yarn alone a lot more when it is on my bowl. But to each their own. I’ve been crocheting for 30+ years and only discovered yarn bowls about 4 years ago. It’s a nice tool to have.
I can understand making a ball from the yarn in hanks. I haven't had the opportunity to use that kind of yarn because it is either to expensive or it is made of wool which I am allergic to. In the past I have thought of making yarn bowl out of ceramics.
When the bowl flew off the lathe, my jaw literally dropped. In my head I could see it in several pieces. I'm thankful my imagination was just fiction. The bowl looks gorgeous!
Hi Peter, it's 3am in the UK and I've just had a light bulb moment. The vacuum hose... It needs googly eyes, a character outfit and a name. I've just watched the charcoal bowl video again. One of my favourites.
I’m just around the corner and am happy to pick your CA glue up anytime you need! Just send out the shop assistant light and I’ll be there! I’m happy to know that beautiful tree was memorialized. I was so sad to see it go but understood the need for it to come down. ❤
Can we please slap this man some more subscribers. What a work. The editing.. the time scheduling.. dang man. You literally keep it 100. AND GRADES HIGHER.
im working as a lumberjack and seeing someone make something so nice out of what i would see as just a very simple chunk of wood i can get anyday, idk it just amazes me. im trying to convince my workplace to get a wood lathe in our workshop
Hope you get one, I think it’s a great idea and good way to decompress after spending all that time cutting down the trees to see something other than lumber for building.
For finishing on a cole jaw with a carbide tool I use the sheer scraping technique. Holding the tool at an angle of 30-45° on the tool rest makes it cut instead of scraping and thus is less aggressive. I've found this greatly reduces the likelihood it'll jump off the lathe. Love your stuff, you're the reason I got into wood turning
Lots of love, @PeterBrownwastaken! Your videos don’t come often, but when they do, I nearly drop everything to watch them. Great job getting over the stigma of therapy. I’ve been going for about 7 years and it’s helped me be the man and father I am today. Keep up the good work!
I love the woodgrain on that bowl! You really can't get more beautiful than that! I remember going on a trip to Sequoia National Forest with my Dad. He died last year, but I'll always remember seeing the Redwoods with him.
Seeing this and the behind the scenes testing done for Gummy Bear Axe Handle 2.0 made me appreciate how much patience many of your projects take, and how much waiting or just patient careful work is condensed down for these videos. I really do appreciate seeing it, it helps my brain a lot to have reminders that crafting things just takes time and that's okay. Very fun video, beautiful bowl, thank you Peter!
Had a similar thing happen to me while making my sons popcorn bowl. Flew off a similar holder, hit me on the top of the head and smashed onto the floor. Found all the pieces and glued it back together and finished it. Didnt come out too bad considering.
As soon as you said “this should go pretty easy “ I paused and made this comment and will watch the rest in excited anticipation to see how it comes back. 15:11 and there it is… Also, really glad it wasn’t worse! Hope you neighbor enjoys it.
You were high up on my inspiration to start woodworking and especially woodturning. Thanks for all the videos and everything you do for your community.
Thank you so much. I just finished turning some bowls for my father-in-law from a white oak he cut down in his yard a while ago. I could have used several of the lessons you taught me in this video. Thank you for getting back to turning wood!
Use tape - packing tape with the strings in it works well - to help hold the bowl on the Cole Jaws. Won't totally prevent it from coming out, but it generally gives you enough time to get the late stopped before the bowl goes flying.
Congrats on 775K subscribers! I enjoy your content and look forward to more videos! My favorite videos are ones where you mix different materials into molds and seeing what will set in resin and what is black light reactive.
When I purchased my drill press a few years ago I bought the Rikon variable speed bench top drill press, they make a larger floor model as well. It is very convenient as it makes going from drill bits to forstnsr bits very easy, and it has a digital readout to be able to set your speed quite easily. The adjustment handle drifts sometimes but only at the extreme end of slow and fast on the adjustment. There are laser cross hairs, an led light, and an easily adjustable table. I like it and would absolutely buy it again.
Part of what draws me to your videos is your interaction with your wife. It gives me hope. Great job on the bowel for not having turned for a while. I always enjoy your videos. Lucky neighbor. Many thank yous.
Redwood is pretty awesome stuff. I bought some from a local guy near Eureka and smuggled it out of California to Louisiana. I need to try turning some. I built a table and it turned out awesome.
Peter this bowl looks phenomenal!!! I was just rewatching a handful of your older wood and bowl projects so this was weirdly exactly the kind of project I was in the mood to see! Even if you are the resin and just wacky weird wonders guy, a classic wood project always produces something appreciable too
I have a 12" Rikon VS (#30-212 VS) that I love and didnt break the bank. Sure, its only a table top drill press, but its gotten me through everything its needs to so far.
Ok so this might sound silly but seeing it go from an actual chunk from a tree to a bowl really put it all into perspective. I mean...that was a huge tree that was alive not that long ago! I know all wood is from trees but...yeah. It was really cool to see the process.
Removing the tenon and finishing the bottom seems much safer using a ryoba saw, or even a flush cut saw for smaller bowls, then sanding on a reference surface of some sort. Glad Mrs. Brown was able to find the large piece!
That bowl is gorgeous!! 😮 All the beautiful wood grain is amazing!! ✨️ You have many a wood worker drooling!! 🪵 To get a free chunk of redwood for free with no shipping!! 💰 Thank you for preserving a piece of natural history! 🇺🇲
Loved this, as I always do with your videos/projects! Out of sheer curiosity, I'd love to know what your "target demographic" ends up being, through the analytics- mostly because I don't think I'm typically it, but I love it here 😂
A great way to speed up drying is to soak the rough turned bowl in DNA for a day or two. Pull out and let sit on the shelf for a couple of days. Check moisture content and turn. I have never had a bowl take more than a week to dry
It’s a beautiful bowl. I hope the neighbors love it. And now you got some free wood that is beautiful! Well not really free because that was a lot of work but ya know. Barter system.
13:54 Doug over at Pohl Barn has a simple and easy depth gauge... Take a long, straight square or rectangular stick and drill a 1/4 inch hole in the exact center of the wide face of the stick. Insert a 1/4 inch diameter dowel through that hole and drill a small pilot hole in the narrow face of the stick lined up with the dowel hole and wind a screw into the pilot hole (it acts as a lock to keep the dowel from sliding in the hole after you've touched the bottom of the part your checking)... To use: lay the stick across the face of the piece and slide the dowel in until it touches bottom, then use the screw to lock it in place, then lay the stick across the face again but with the dowel on the OUTSIDE of the piece and see where the end is relative to the chuck...the difference is how thick the bottom is...AKA how close to joining the Funnel Club you are... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Peter I think the CA glue honestly makes the bowl a bit more unique, because it kinda looks like a bit of sap from the tree! Which looks so cool!! Anyways well done!
Such an amazing piece of wood turning!!! Even with the hiccups it still came out beautifully!! I wonder if anything can be made with the shreds and shavings? Maybe a future project with resin?
One tip I learned from my grandfather with regards to the Cole Jaws - put a large blob of hot glue on each jaw right before you tighten them down and then let the glue fully cool. This ensures that the small taper in the jaws seats completely on the bowl. Then when done turning, you can peel most of the hot glue off of the wood and sand the rest before finish.
whats your sharpening setup like? I only have carbide tooling and would like to get a bowl gouge, maybe 2 in different sizes. The biggest barrier for that is of course sharpening.
This might get buried, but when using your cole jaws put your tailstock in place and it will keep the bowl secure. Whittle the tenon down slowly leaving just a small nubbin in the middle, then remove the tailstock to turn off the little nubbin with a lot lower risk of rapid unscheduled disassembly
at first I was sad they cut the tree but understand that its not something you want dropping on anything, really nice that you made it so that they have a bit of their tree back
Bowl looks great even if it pulled a "Fly - Be Free!". You could make a resin bowl with all the wood saving like the aluminum 'murder bowl' you made several years ago!
Ugh I was cringing so badly the second I heard the bowl come loose. And then the bounces....ugh I thought for sure you were gonna be holding a ton of pieces when you came back in frame. So happy you just had the one chip out. Also so happy to see you do a wood bowl again. Super excited to see how the loki bowl ends up looking. I hope you share pictures or another video for that bowl.
So my nemesis is the Cole jaws for the very reason that you had. If you use fiber tape, or strapping tape as it’s also called, you can do a pretty good job of holding it to those demon jaws. Also tail stock for as long as possible.