I have been wanting to play around with woodturning hollow forms. This is a type that is similar to woodturning a bowl except that the opening at the top is really small so it makes a kind that is more hollow than it is open. I got a delivery of fir and maple wood a number of years earlier and I have been gradually turning that wood. I began with a piece of fir and an old hollowing tool that I had purchased years and years ago that had actually simply been sitting on the shelf waiting on me to select it up. This attempt achieved success but not as hollow as I would have liked. The opening was somewhere in between what would be thought about a hollow form and a bowl. I then received the brand-new hollowing tool from Carter and Boy Toolworks woodturning tools and this was a much better tool than what I had. I worked on a few of the maple from the same shipment of wood and made a handful of hollow types. After doing this, I understood that when you turn a bowl, you switch off the product with the screw holes from where the faceplate attaches when you at first wood turn the form. However when you do a hollow form, those screw holes are still there. So I was attempting to believe up a method to solve the issue of the screw holes that I had in my woodturning. I considered cutting them out with the CNC maker. Then I developed the concept of making a ring of segmented pieces and cutting that ring into the top of the hollow forms with the CNC This would make a new smaller sized opening for the hollow kind and cover up the holes left by the screws from the faceplate. This worked really perfectly and it makes a stunning collar for the hole for the hollow type. I really like this method. I now have 2 maple hollow types with walnut collars or frames around the opening of the kind.
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0:37 (very first kind).
2:07 (maple kind 1).
9:06 (maple kind 2).
17:49 (conclusion).
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I know that your CNC inserts are integral to what your doing, but in case you or your viewers are unaware, you can get this done quite safely with out the face plate. Most folks doing hollowforms will start with the blank between centers. This has a couple advantages. For one, you can fine tune the orientation to maximize grain display. This also eliminates “the drill hole problem” as you just turn your tenon while you are between centers. Your solution to your problem is beautiful and well executed, but I wanted to be sure that people weren’t left with the impression that this problem was unavoidable.
Beautiful!
Truly wonderful work, Frank! They turned out fantastic! 😃
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“a walnut blueberry with a maple collar” sounds delicious
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Yeah, do the blueberry!!
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I like the designs and the contrasts of these bowls. Cheers!
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