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Wobbly Finishing

I just turned my first bowl (yay!) and all has gone pretty well until now.

I seem to have turned the sides too thin. They have a bark inclusion and the mix of hard & soft places on them has left me with a slightly out of round condition. For the most part that has presented no real problem but now I am having a difficult time finishing it.

It's a piece of maple about 6" dia. and about 2" high. I've tried CA and it looks fantastic all the places the sand paper can hit. I then gave shellac (1# cut) a trial. Ooooh shiny! But the shellac 1) streaks and 2) suffers the same problem with unevenness.

Is this bowl beyond hope or is there some crafty technique that, once mastered, will let me finish and wobbly bowl I encounter for the rest of my troubled life?

I'm leaving this thing on the chuck for now ... which means I am waiting for answers from the newsgroup before I can start the next bowl.

Bill

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Ralph

I did.

I cross sanded it (at 45's to the linear axis) and then applied HUT glossy with the circular motion used to spit-shine shoes.

It looks okay, but not as good as I would like. It goes to my Mom who will be happy to get it and unable to see it well enough to spot the flaws.

Bill

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Tony Manella

I'm in my 50's and she still has the paper tracing I made of my hand in kindergarten. She gave me back the silhouette of my head from third grade and the slanted book shelf I made in 7th grade. She kept the pie server from 9th grade. Now her eyesight is failing her pretty rapidly. She'll be able to see the really nice figuring and coloration but will never notice the swirl marks in the bottom of the bowl. They'll be covered up with the Jordan Almonds I'm sending along, anyways. :-)

I didn't want to leave the impression that I was thinking along the disrespectful lines of "Oh, it's just Mom .. I can send her just any old junk." The truth is, with the exception of my wife and sons, my Mom is probably the only member of my family who would not go over the gift piece with a magnifying glass and then pounce on me for any flaw ... real or imagined ... no matter how minor it might be. I'm learning as I go and this is the first piece I think is good enough to let get away from my control. It's got flaws ... so did the hand tracing ... but she's still my Mom and it's okay if she knows that I am not perfect.

Bill

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Anonymous

Things you make don't have to be perfect. Personally, I like to make bowls that wiggle and twist; velly intelisting vot?

Tom

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Tom Storey

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