Finished - at last

And it's better than it has any right to!

It started in The Guru's workshop, when I said I thought I'd turn the blank upside down and try a natural edge bowl. ( You HAVE noticed the edge isn't nice and flat and even, it's all wavey!)

The Guru said "Hmmmm. Whatever you reckon".

You need to know him to understand what that revealed of his opinion of the idea.

But I went ahead, and received the usual guidance and assistance. And all went fairly well.

At the sanding stage I took it home, intending to finish it on my newly acquired Jet mini-lathe. But I found I couldn't mount it, as the spigot on the bowl was to big for my only chuck.

Dammit!

I shelved tlhe bowl (literally) for a while, then had a brilliant idea. I drilled the base of the bowl and turned and fitted a pedestal. Wundebar. You are bnrighter than Einstein even...

Unfortunately, the pedestal wasn't quite exactly straight, or centred, or perhaps both. And when you put a slightly off balance lump on a lathe, the unbalance is magnified.

I shelved it again!!

Then, a few days ago, I plucked up my courage, gritted my teeth, put my shoulder to the wheel, my nose to the grindstone... and found it was impossible to work in that position.

So I attached the bowl to the lathe via the pedestal, and spent an uncomfortable hour or so sanding and polishing with the bowl thumping and bumping in unbalance.

And the result is OK. Not perfect - [perfection is for the gods).

But OK is OK.

Natural edge bowl on pedestal, New Guinea rosewood, finish Rustins Plastic.

all the best

vsquared47