D'oh.....(I cant be on my own)

OK, members of the worshipful order of funnelmakers, fess up!

I think it is really cool when that last cut leaves the rim spinning around the tool shaft and bouncing off the tool rest a bit. Not cool enough to do it on purpose, but cool :-)

Hi Derek, I bet you _can sell that 'exposed fastening art' bowl. Maybe your sense of truth won't allow it and, of course, you can't sell it to fellow turners. The gospel that bottoms and backs need to be more beautiful than tops and sides is a long standing, but IMO questionable verity that has been instilled in all of us. I refer to turned objects; human anatomy is a private call. :)

I'm not advocating rough unfinished ugly bottoms. I do wonder tho, if neatly exposed or corrected holding methods can be just as honest and acceptable as compulsively decorated nether parts. Many successful painters, silversmiths, potters, and furniture makers seem to think so. Just a small dissenting voice that will neither be heard or agreed with.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

not me.. never made a mistake like that.. *g*

TWICE this week, while feeding my addiction of Darrell's angel wing bowls, I forgot that the chuck tenon wasn't cut on the lathe, but with a forstner...

The wife likes the thin one's I've been making, so TWICE on the last smoothing cut I went deep enough to open the hole from the brad point on the forstner..

"experience is the ability to recognize your mistakes when you repeat them"

mac

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Au contraire, Arch, mon brave! I agree with you on this one ... the vast majority of folks haven't a clue as to how we hold things on lathes, or even what a lathe is for that matter, so I've no problem leaving a nicely sanded and finished recess on my bowls, and neither, apparently, do any of the folks who have bought my stuff.

On one occasion when I did this (ripped out the bottom when removing a core) to a really nice piece of Madrone burl, I sanded in out and finished it and gave it to a friend who made a lamp shade out of it for an accent light, low watt and low heat bulb. It looked really nice. robo hippy

mac davis wrote:

silliness?

forstner...

Or when there is a strange noise and you find yourself staring into a black hole where the bottom of the piece would be had you not turned clear through to the chuck. Got a couple nice art objects that way. :o)

just testing

My excuse was that the first chucking was a little light and prone to come off, so I reversed it and made a tennon inside the groove. reversed again and this time with the chuck further in. I couldn't see it properly and there isn't enought time tto stop the lathe to check.

That excuse workeed for me until I remembered that I had done a very similar thing a week ago.

mick

Uhhhhh..........I think some might call it "professional development". Is this the first mistake you've ever made?

Barry

I believe those pieces are called "funnels". :-)

Barry

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Unfortunately it was the proverbial straw and I needed some catharsis. Hearings other's tales of stupidity will help me realise that these learning experiences are most useful. I notice there is a name for it.. funnel making, so it must be a common occurrence. But I still have some of the wood left. It should be very similar and I will take more care next time. Cheers Mick

For a while, I thought they'd be my signature piece.

Nope. You're the first that ever happened to. None of us have *ever* done that.

At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

...Kevin

I call 'em cheese cutting boards. So far, I've only got one but it's a lovely ash with beautiful grain.

I have never found the final 1/3 of the bowl sides so I'm not certain how to make a funnel of it.

(Like a host of others, I got busted taking the proverbial "one more cut".)

Bill

Ya know, it strikes me that if the holes were drilled out and filled with a contrasting dowel, they'd look rather nice. Just a thunk ... I've not tried it yet.

Bill

Or napkin rings.