Show and Tell time

Ray H.

Arnie R.

John As.

John As. – Pecan

Maryalice B.

MaryAlice B.

Bruce B.

Bruce B. – Porcupine quills

Robert M.

Robert’s punch for mouse ears

Kyle C. and Terry K.

Kyle C. – colored plywood

Rick H.

Jim R. demonstrating captive scraper system to Cabrillo mentors during break

Matt Monaco from Missouri – all-day demo focusing on tool technique. Website is monacobowls.com

Matt Monaco

Matt Monaco

Cut to show wall thickness – He sands when surface is just dry enough to not clog paper

“Wood Pottery” – very thin in Silver Maple

Bead decoration

All the wood used today in demo is Avocado – First project is beading demo with his special gouge grind

Series of beads cut with gouge

Practice piece – bead work

Avocado blank for second project: shallow bowl

Cutting the tenon – notice the cracks

Create a tenon for Oneway chuck

Tenon should be shorter than jaws, and jaws should be snug against bottom of bowl

Matt’s custom shape achieved by freehand grinding. Has straighter wings and smaller tip

Matt’s prefered grind on left

Freehand (“Naked”) grinding. He grinds from wing to tip, both right and left handed

Left handed on left side

Comparison of grinds – middle is his preferred

Matt’s tools

Cutting downhill – against the grain is do-able with this grind

Variety of beads

Spear point sheer scraper

The micro bevel on “bottom feeder” gouge

Hollowing with heavy gouge

On screw chuck – Cut off beads and repurpose as jam chuck and, later, hollowform

Prepare jam chuck

Hold with tailstock

Sheer scrape with spear point scraper

Concave bottom

Little bead on bottom

Turn jam chuck into hollowform blank

Bead at collar

This shows off the gouge shape

Cut bead on top

Hollowing scraper – Keep tip rotated down so won’t catch

Curved hollowing scraper tool to get around corner

Fit jam chuck

Remove tenon

Concave bottom

Saw off tenon