Oh my god!!!

[Mark Norman]

I turned a piece of walnut this morning (I am a noob at this turning stuff).

Just mounted it to a piece of mdf and a faceplate and started turning. I just wanted to see what was inside the wood and get some time with a gouge in my hands. No expectations at all just listening to Niel Diamond:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgkk0...eature=related

The shape just 'became' what it is. I held the tool and let the Lord guide me in the adventure..

What came from the wood is simply astounding!!

Now I need help, how to turn it around? I don't have a chuck, well I do but it wobbles and I wont be able to get it replaced for at least two weeks.

How do I turn it around to hollow out the bowl without a chuck and without putting scews into the foot?

I was thinking of gluing a piece of mdf just slightly larger than the foot and screwing the 3" faceplate to that but I dont even have a tailstock on the machine yet. Should I just take it off and bag it till I get my chuck replaced?

Other than a few practice spindles on a POS HF lathe this is my second bowl in my lifetime.

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This is what I started with this morning...

[Mike Minto]

nice wood, dude, but - calm down, eh? mike

[Mark Norman]

nice wood, dude, but - calm down, eh? mike

calm down???
Why?

The Lord reveals himself to me through this craft and I should calm down? I don't think so my friend...

[Steve Schlumpf]

It does get exciting at times!! Personally, I would wait until I had the right tools to do the job!

[Mark Norman]

It does get exciting at times!! Personally, I would wait until I had the right tools to so the job!

I am so disappointed my brand new chuck wobbles..

Thanks Steve, I'll just cut a tenon on it and bag it up.

Yeah, I am excitable at times

[Wally Dickerman]

A beautiful piece of walnut. I suggest that you true up an area at what will be the bottom and glue on a glue block for using a faceplate. Do NOT use MDF. It has no strength at all. A good catch and you have a flying bowl. Also, don't use plywood for the same reason. Could separate. Make a good true surface for the gluing. CA glue works as does Titebond.

Pic shows a nearly finished piece still mounted on a glue block.

Good luck

Wally

[Mark Norman]

Thanks Wally, I'm still at the lower end of the learning curve when it comes to turning.

CA= superglue right?

I already cut a tenon in it and stuffed it in a bag of shavings.

[Adam Grills]

Looks like a good start. Depending on the chuck did you install the taperloc bushing correct? Try resetting it. Looks to me like you are set up on a big bowl lathe there
Adam

[Allen Neighbors]

Prettiest walnut I've ever seen! Good going! Get that lathe finished, and show us all about it.

[Mark Norman]

Looks like a good start. Depending on the chuck did you install the taperloc bushing correct? Try resetting it. Looks to me like you are set up on a big bowl lathe there
Adam

Its a SN2 chuck and the adapter just threads into it and then onto the spindle with a set screw through the chuck.

Yeah Adam, it is a big bowl lathe, real big I'll make several little ones and work up to the BIG ones when my confidence and skill level allows.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Beautiful walnut Mark and good to see ya turning. Got to be a good feeling.

[Chris Rae]

That is one incredible piece of wood Mark! It is exciting isn't it, I can imagine it's even more exciting to be turning on a lathe you made with your own hands, that's awesome! Looking forward to seeing that beautiful bowl finished.

[Mark Norman]

Thanks Bernie, you too Chris.

I'll be turning several more soon enough,,,,,climbing the learning curve...

Stoopid chuck...

[John Fricke]

Mark, got a ? for ya

Does your threaded insert bottom out against a shoulder on your spindle when you thread it on? I was just wondering if perhaps you had a couple too many threads on your spindle.

[Mark Norman]

Mark, got a ? for ya

Does your threaded insert bottom out against a shoulder on your spindle when you thread it on? I was just wondering if perhaps you had a couple too many threads on your spindle.

As a matter of fact it did John, I used my die grinder and cut off about two threads last night so it would bottom out on the shoulder.