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Daryl, I do a lot of hollow forms and never use a drill bit to drill the center hole. I have a long 3/8" bowl gouge with a fingernail grind, and I start a small hole where I want it. With the tool...

Another method for dealing with punky wood is to buy CHEAP white glue, dilute it about 50/50 with clean water and saturate the wood with it. Should be workable in a couple hours, or overnite if you...

My PM3520 has a threaded piece on the tip of the live center to accept the cone that comes with it. I have made several other pieces to fit on these threads, including a flat wooden one that has a...

I have been working with brass, and one of the things I have done is to cut up the strips (about 1" x 30") into wedge shaped segments and lay them around the rim of a squat hollow form. I am still...

I use dri-slide as well - molybdenum and graphite. Once the carrier evaporates in a few minutes, nothing to gum up. I use it on all of my chucks.

I too use the Crush Grind for our salt mill, and have had it for over 6 years. The one caveat to using it for course salt - salt can get moisture and then dry out, leaving a column of rock in the...

Trent Bosch has a new system that looks pretty nice.
If you are at all handy, you can make Lyle Jamieson's system at home, he provides the specs on his website. I bout the steel and had a friend...

The first person I saw hollowing in reverse was J. Paul Fennell, at a demo in Mesa. I move the headstock down the bed of my lathe and stand directly in front of my hollowing. If you reverse hollow,...

Wonderful bowl Hayes!

Hey Michael, Reed's right, come out to the Beaver State meeting next week (the 22nd). We are covering natural edge bowls this month, and have another bowl demo scheduled for March on twice turned...

You did good to divide this, and get 2 terrific platters from it.

This is a beauty, and I like the inclusion. If it wasn't there, you wouldn't have all the other wonderful stuff happening.

Dave, I have found that adding oil on the inside of the piece will cause the lid to fit tighter, so try that first. A lot of my boxes I make so they do not have much friction at all, but with...

Another inexpensive polishing tip is to use brown paper (from a grocery bag) after the steel wool. I go 320/400/wool/paper

That's a stunning bowl Bob, I hope the rest of the pieces are as good. Are you coring them?

Beautiful pieces, very sweet shapes, and you used the wood to good advantage. I usually shoot for elegant boxes and end up with firewood....