The diameter of the blank was a smidgen over 500mm once cut to the round!
This is where the Stubby 1000 comes to the fore. I could never have thought of trying this on the old Record CL3!
Started off by triming the blank with a chain saw until it was more or less balanced
Turned the outside shape
Formed a spiggot on the base to fit the Axminster Chuck with its 100mm Mega Jaws
The bowl blank was attached to the headstock with a three inch faceplate
Reversed the bowl on to the chuck
The beautiful Oneway live centre with its reversing attachment is just the right thing to ensure perfect alignment
There is a picture of how to use it in one of my previous posts
Face off the blank
Leave the faceplate in place though
You'll see why shortly
Using the Kelton 'bowl saver' to core out the centre
This way the centre piece can be re-mounted on the headstock, without having moved the faceplate
Using this method, three or more nested bowls can be turned from a single blank
This shows the shape of the cutting tip on the Kelton tool
Below is the centre removed
One can see that the Kelton tool cut nearly to the centre
The centre piece is removed by giving it a sharp wack and cracking the small uncut section in the centre
Obviously one must wack the side-grain quadrant of the core not the end-grain quadrant
I ended off by remounting the faceplate on the lathe and turning the centre piece into two more bowls!
Each bowl is left rather thick (10% of the bowl diameter) so that after drying and warping there will be enough material to re-turn each to a perfect round shape.
This re-turning will probably be done 6 months to a year from now for the biggest bowl!
The smaller ones, being thinner, will dry sooner.
BTW - I highly recommend the Avacado wood. Beautifully fine grained and easy to cut.
If you are ever offered Avocado wood DO NOT turn it down.
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