Turning an end grain cup on a pole lathe 

Thanks Tom, that's wonderful to hear. Made my day.

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I do use axe and mallet sometimes. There are a few things which I take into consideration when choosing which ones to use. As I do not want to have a too large impact on the back of my axe, I prefer using a froe. Or I should perhaps use an old, cheap axe for splitting. Another plus for the froe is that I can create a long, straight split, which gives me a bit more control on where the wood is going to split. That being said, using a few axes will work as well, to get a long, straight split. That is a bit more work though. However, when the wood is really hard and does not easily split I do use several axes for splitting and then gently hit them one by one until the wood splits. I do this as well when I don't want to wood to split in one straight line, but when I want it to split in, let's say, three more or less equal parts. Than 3 axes are they way to go.

I just saw RU-vid will come with a new option to remove music from a video. Perhaps I'll try that.

The first turned wooden bowl is from the 14th Century BC. A lathe in thise ages was probably powered by hand. This foot powered lathe probably originates from the early medieval or perhaps even the Roman era. Many cups were turned like this for example in Viking Age York in the UK.

Thank you very much for your compliment. I am glad you liked the video.

It's not so much that it's inefficient, but more that I like to experiment with different types of lathes. Although perhaps not so much empirically based, I like the one with one pole better, but I can imagine that that's just a mental thing, as I like it because it's the way it was done historically.

I use two hooks. A regular tip down hook for getting into the wood, next to the core. And a tip up hook which has a little angle in the knife part, making it easier to get into the created hole and widening that hole to get the desired wall thickness. I thought Yoav Elkayam calls this hook 'the politician'. It's a bit hard to explain what it looks like in words, but I don't have a photo at the moment.

@@hetnoesteleven Thank you. Do you forge it yourself? I'd like to see a photo when possible

@@atelierdelagaillonnesaints3961 I forge these myself indeed. As I cannot upload photos as a response here on RU-vid, I'll come back to that in a while. In a little while I'll be making new ones and will post photos on my Facebook and Instagram. I hope I'll remember to put a link here. Or of course you could follow my Instagram :)

Thanks Lobo, both for the compliment and for supplying great music!

Now that's some feedback. Thanks Jared.

For cups it's around 3,5 to 4 rotations and for bowls around 2,5. The size of the mandrel determines the number of rotations.

@@hetnoesteleven thank you for the quick reply :)

I meant near the pith

Well, he was right. This cup was not made from a branch that had (just about) the size of the cup. The wood I started with was much bigger (as you can see in the beginning of the video). The cup was in between the pith and the bark of a large slab of the tree. I kept away from the pith, which is this not in the cup. So, several cups can be made from one slice of a big log.