- Jeff V. filling in for Prez Chrystal
- Demonstrator Rudy Lopez from Tampa Florida
- Project 1 is winged bowl from crotch wood
- Rudy uses double-beveled bowl gouges ground at 40, 60, and 80 degress. Shown is negative rake scraper with long edge for inside deep smoothing
- Writeup on long negative rake scraper available under Handouts on his website: rudolphlopez.com
- Showing the double bevel
- Jig for grinding the double bevel
- Rolly Munro tool for deep hollowing – Rudy’s favorite
- Crotch turned between centers using large spur center
- Large spur – about 1.5″ diameter
- Shaping the bottom
- Cut tenon on bottom
- Smoothing with negative angle scraper
- Reverse holding with tenon – note marks where held by large spur
- Thinning the wings from the top
- Negative rake scraper turning mostly air
- Starting the hollowing
- Checking depth with laser depth finder
- Shop made laser depth gauge
- Hollowing with gouge
- Final shape
- Showing how chucked on bottom
- Showing urethane plastic soft chuck (rubberchucky.com) and leather pad for jam chucking
- Jam chucking with rubber chucky to finish bottom
- Final bottom cleanup
- Cut off with Japanese pull saw
- Final winged bowl – top
- Final winged bowl – top
- Final winged bowl – bottom
- Joanne declares it good
- Showing how to support bowl with stand
- Project 2 is deep bowl in Cuban Mahogany with natural edge rim. Exercise using bowl gouges for hollowing.
- Shaping bottom and tenon
- Reversed for hollowing
- Hollowing
- Final project 2 – round bottom
- Banana bowl – multiaxis turning
- Project 3 vase is square/round exercise
- Layout for cutting the flats on the bandsaw
- As cut with flats
- Bottom rounded and reversed
- Hollowing with Munro tool
- Shaping the base
- Final shaping of foot
- Use sanding disk on lathe to smooth the flats (the $3000 disk sander)
- Final project 3 vase – flats can be further decorated or textured