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This is my first try at a square bowl. It's made from 8/4 cherry, 5 1/2" square 1 3/4" high. I sanded to 400 grit and finished with AO. There's a few tool marks around the legs, but it was getting too thin to try and sand them out.
Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking.
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The finish looks great, Rob. The only thing I would consider changing would be to carry the hollowing on the underside up a bit further so that the curve continues uninterrupted. It looks great!
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Rob, you sure achieved a nice finish!! Nice work on the bowl, and while I have not attempted this style, I do agree with David on the continuation of the turning of the underside.
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I think it's great. Nice job.
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Nice job. I never have been able to get my wings (feet) to come out uniformly, (two are always narrower than the other two).
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The comments about the underside are spot on. It looks like you left the bottom flat near the edges instead of continuing the cutting until you had a smooth curve. You can hide a little bit of that by sanding the sides to undercut them, but not that much.
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Very impressed with the finish. I have 4 cocobolo squares that I am going to try to make them into a square bowl.
Last edited by Karl Card; 09-28-2010 at 9:42 PM.
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Rob, Good first attempt at Square.
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Rob - congrats on your first! Wasn't as hard as you thought - was it?
Great finish!
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Nice,
I agree with David Keller on the under side valley between the bowl and legs. It would be nice to achieve a consistent edge thickness.
The finish looks great.
There is definitely a pucker factor turning these.
Thanks for sharing!
Just cut off the parts that don't look like a bowl...
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That is great. I am still debating a lathe and what kind. I don't have 220 so it'll have to be 110, but do what I want it to.
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Great bowl. Finish looks really good.
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For a first attempt I think you did GREAT! yea... you could've went further. But man those things are scary! I've tried two... blew them up and I've not tried another.
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First attempt at a suare bowl huh...really your first. You must mean the first one that turned out so nice but you destroyed a dozen or so trying to figure them out. I can buy that. Am I in the ballpark here? Nope I'm just not buying it, no way.
Very nice first attempt (or how many ever it really is)
Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Nice square bowl Rob. I have never tried one. Have plenty of wood for it too! Stuff that I had saved for all the flat work projects I was going to build over the past year and next thirty! I'm just a year behind.
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