JET Tools – Lathe Projects – Turn A Bowl – Part 1 of 3
by Lathe on Sep.01, 2009, under Lathe Videos
From the JET Shopclass Series of DVDs – Learn How To turn a bowl with your Lathe!
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September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Mini lathe for a massive bowl
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
in all honesty im 14 you need to lower the band saw blade thing!!
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
is that wood maple?
thanks for the video!
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
when you live on 80 acres you can do that…
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
HAHA he wants to make a bowl so he goes out to his backyard and cuts down a tree!
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
I will give them every consideration when I go to buy the next one. Thanks.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Good Call – yes you can always get a bigger lathe (honestly we won’t mind if you want to invest in a bigger one from Jet) we just wanted to show that you can do work like this on a smaller lathe too. Great suggestion on the larger gouge – thats a great tip for everyone.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Well, it was hard to be sure, due to the hand-held shot, but I have seen a few lathes that move due the workpiece’s eccentricity at this stage and that sure looked the same. Although it might be common to see a lathe shake, it isn’t necessary to endure that and a step up in lathes is a good idea. So is a larger gouge for roughing! Than you.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Actually the whole machine was moving. It is not uncommon for a lathe to give a bit when rounding a bowl from the rough blank. That’s why you always make sure your raw workpiece is solidly anchored between headstock and tailstock before turning on the machine. You’ll notice we spent quite a bit of time explaining the how to do that safely. Thanks for your comment!
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Was that the tailstock shaking right before 5 minutes?
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
we’ve got a lot on our shooting schedule right now – I’ll see what we can do.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Thanks for the quick reply. I didn’t get that you were making a “natural edge bowl” until I got to the final video. If you said anything about it at the start I missed it. This was a nice set of videos and I got a lot out of them. Do you think you could do one on cutting a captive ring?
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
if you want to make a natural edge bowl, do what we did. For a flat edge you would start off with that square face. Great Comment!
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
Very interesting! I was a machinist working with metals for 20 years (now disabled) and if I was doing this, after turning the work piece around the first thing I would have done would be to face it off. Squaring off the face removing all the bark and making it flat, then start hollowing it out. I would have been wrong. I just got my first wood lathe, a Jet 10×14 VS and this is going to be more fun & different than I thought.
Thanks for the video & I hope you do some more of them.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
better than most commercial videos
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
That’s the old JET 10″x14″ Mini – I love it – but they don’t make it anymore. They actually tweaked it a bit and re-released it as an indexing mini lathe.
September 1st, 2009 on 12:14 pm
This is so cool -I never thought you could turn something like this on a small lathe! What lathe did you use for this?