WoW I'd like to thank each and everyone of you for taking the time to respond to my post individually but I guess that's not really needed, so Thank you all.
I saw there was the question of "How'd he do that" I have changed it a bit since my first one that I did 10 years ago, but it still is quite a bit of work, mostly in the extra sanding that's required.
This is the first one I did, it is a Hickory platter I made for LOML, and this picture was made before I had a digital camera, so it's just scanned, sorry.
I did very little cutting on this one, mostly sanded the rim that I left on.
handled platter.jpg
But basically all my handled bowls and platters are made similar except for the Apple bowl where I made cutouts to get the handles.
Handled Apple bowl.jpg
I start with a wet turned bowl that has enough wood left on to make the handles, this can be just at the rim or lower down, like with this Elm bowl.
Handled Elm bowl.jpg
When returning the dried bowl I leave the area where the handles are going to be as it is, then when the bowl is mostly returned I decide on how thick and wide the handles have to be and cut this to the thickness I think is right, after that the sawing and filing/sanding start, first draw the with of the handles and try to get them exactly even on either side, if the rim is wide I will use the bandsaw to cut most of the wood that has to be removed, then the sanding with disks first and later by hand to get the wood all like the rest of the bowl, also use files to get crisp corners , basically I use anything the works from Dremel to saw-blades to power sanding disk and then hand sand and polish.
or leave it all on like with this Cherry bowl, there's room for making things different in one from the other, just the way I like it.
Handled Cherry bowl.jpg
It can look real nice, but it is a lot of extra work, though sometimes the piece just calls out for it, like this one
Handled Maple bowl.jpg
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Originally Posted by Leo Van Der Loo
