Richard Raffan turns a breakfast bowl in dry claret ash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- The order was for a wide-rimmed breakfast bowl about 8"x3". You see this claret ash bowl turned and finished in real time. If you're wondering about turning for a living, you need to be a bit faster than this to survive. A good rule-of-thumb as to how long a bowl should take to turn is:
Diameter x Height in inches = time to turn a bowl in minutes.
The highlight of my day is when I see that you've posted a new video. Thank you Richard for sharing your wealth of wood turning knowledge!
I love how you show even the catches, which in my turning are more often that yours...:)
Thank you so much for continually sharing your expertise, knowledge and all of the tips and tricks you have learned over the years. I always enjoy watching and learning from you! Thank you!
Very nice bowl Richard. I love the shape and color. I especially like your commentary. It's good to know about your tools and turning technique. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
These videos have been a great help to me. Thank you for your inspiration and insight!
Another brilliant and😊 skillful turning. Thank you Richard
Thanks for your videos. I love them.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
I enjoyed this demo. I love watching production turners work!
Very nice detail really makes it stand out, very nice Richard.
The good ones make it look easy Thanks Richard
Beautiful bowl Richard.
Richard that was a real nice bowl well done.
Richard, I’ve found rechargeable computer dusters to be invaluable in the workshop. No compressor noise, just squeeze the trigger and you’ve got a blast of air. Seems like it would help a ton in your work.
Very nice work Mr Raffan, Thank you for sharing. 👏👏👏👏
Very nice Richard, beautiful bowl!
Nice form, thanks for posting.
Amazing!
Thanks Richard
That is such Beautiful work, very nice 👌
$10 AU? Even in Euro's that's a lot! I sure hope you didn't buy the blank for that amount?
If people are really paying that much for a small piece of wood my shop inventory is priceless. 😎
I think that was the price I had on a large blank that failed to sell when I downsized. Purchased retail this well-seasoned blank would likely have been nearer AUS$15.
Great job, that’s a nice bowl
Thank you!
Excellent, thanks
making me hungry for some raisin bran, very nice Richard.
Awesome work…makes it look so damn easy 😂
Thanks for the time formula. Gives me something to shoot for.
Coming to woodturning after 50 years as a nurseryman I’ve found your videos invaluable….I’ve been collecting wood for about the last 30 years…..all sorts of weird and wonderful species…..I have some huge 5ft widths of elm from 40 years ago……annoyingly it has lots of woodworm but is solid. Do you reject that sort of wood Richard or just put up with it? Can’t see much evidence of live worm and the wood is extremely dry (like turning concrete). Seems a pity to waste it as I’ve got the whole tree!….tons of the stuff. Thanks again.
Well-seasoned elm usually turns well do if you're finding it tough that might be down to your tools and their sharpness. I don't work wormy wood. I cut defective material away and see what I can do with what's left. Where you are in the world will have some bearing regarding bugs and borers and probably which species of elm.
Thank you Richard. I’m in Teesdale (Eggleston Hall Gardens) Co Durham, England; Not many exotic bugs here, a few Yorkshiremen over the border perhaps…..Just six months of bad weather and another six of winter.
Very nice
Beautiful bowl. Would you please explain why you use a spindle gouge vs. bowl gouge? Thank you.
You don’t need the strength of a bowl gouge working close to the rest, so using a less expensive tool makes sense. But chiefly I find shavings get away faster from a spindle gouge - wide and thick shavings can jam in a deep flute when there’s a hand over the flute deflecting shavings. 50 years ago I had a tool to dislodge them.
01:10 - you said 1/2" spindle gouge with an ASYMMETRIC grind? i thought you only used asymmetric grinds on bowl gouges. it looks fairly symmetrical in the video. just thought i'd check. also i was wondering if the asymmetric grind only works on gouges with parabolic/elliptical flutes; i suspect it wouldn't work so well on a V-flute gouge so i still use a symmetric grind on those. thanks again for a most excellent video. :)
The asymmetric grind developed in part because I rarely used the right wing. I sharpened only the portion of the edge I was using. Then I found I could use the long left wing for pull cuts when shaping bowls and the steep bevel on the right allowed me to cut to centre with the bevel rubbing when hollowing a bowl.
why are the subtitles not available? It's unfortunate and strange. Thank you for your very educational videos.
I don't know anything about subtitles but I suppose they're not there due to my ignorance or ineptitude. For the moment, making these basic videos on my own is more than enough of a challenge.
Gorgeous and LoL and you make it look so easy!
Total time what would you say you would have into a bowl that size?
Thanks, your videos are so good and easy to follow.
Total time including cutting the blank for a bowl would be 30 minutes at most. Doing a run of them used to be a bit faster.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Amazing !!! Thank you so much for responding. I did purchase your three book set also. 😊
Cheers
That’s going to be some breakfast
It doesn't have to be completely filled with gluey porridge.....
That is some beautiful wood and the end result is awesome. It was really enjoyable and instructive watching as you developed the shape and the design on this piece. I will echo Tim_Pollock's comment that it is a highlight of the day seeing that you have posted a new video.
Ótimo trabalho.
It's GRRRRRREAT!
Very nice breakfast bowl. But if I filled it, it would feed me for several days. 🤣 Must be a Papa Bear or logger sized bowl! Thanks again for making it look so easy. Any chance we will see you in Oregon next spring at AAW?
No chance I"ll be in Oregon although I'd love to catch up with long time friends. Unfortunately at my age travel insurance to the the US is almost equal to the airfare so for me it'd be prohibitively expensive.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturningI know and its very unfair
Thank you for explaining your process as you turn. The formula mentioned in the video notes as a rough guide for production turning, is that for dry (or seasoned) blanks?
The formula is for dry. Rough turning and re-turning should reduce the time overall with the advantage that you can often save the centre for smaller bowls. Completing a bowl green, the sanding tends to slow the process.
Nice bowl. I see you have used paraffin wax as finish. Would it not perhape be better to use a mixture of beeswax & Carnauba? Kind regards.
The whole point of using the candle in this video was to show that you can. I used carnauba once 53 years ago. It was difficult to apply and far shinier than I care for so I used candle wax instead as was the practice in the production workshop where I learnt the basics of woodturning. I soon discovered carnauba spotted with water, which to my mind makes its use pointless on a utilitarian bowl. I want a finish that comes off when the bowl is washed so that subsequently a patina builds with use.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you! Good to know the reason. Kind regards.
Richard, when you are sanding are you doing it at turning speed? Thanks for another terrific video.
I usually sand at turning speed, forgetting I have EVS - which I didn't for 20-plus years. EVS for woodlathes was developed in the mid-1990s. I tend to drop the lathe speed only when I can't feel the abrasive being pulled or there's too much heat from the friction and endgrain checking. If the abrasive is skating over the wood surface, usually it's too worn to be effective, so it's better to grab a new piece and keep the speed as it is.
How do you get such efficient stock removal and relatively fine finish with a scraper? Even freshly sharpened I seem to get more dust than ribbons of woods removed.
Dust or ribbons depends in part on the species of wood you're turning. The fine finish comes from stroking the surface with almost no pressure against the wood.
Nice work as always. Can I ask where you get your wood from (that you purchase)?
These days I buy logs from the ACT Woodcraft Guild, my local wood group who have a timber team that processes logs and sells the boards to members only, generating income for the Guild. As a full-time bowl turner I purchased burl by the tonne direct from timber-getters.
Very nice bowl but a question. I make my porridge in a bowl in the microwave, would a wooden bowl.survive the heat or do you think it would crack. is there a particular wood that might survive. Its in the microwave for about 2 mins. Thanks in advance
I don't risk my bowls in the microwave on a daily basis, just very occasionally. I'll be reheating some stew in a 6"x3"wooden bowl for tomorrow's lunch, probably for 2 minutes.
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Richard do you mind if I ask what sanding pad you use on the Makita drill you use. It seems to have a very good density to it, not too firm yet not too soft.
The pads are made by Tim Skilton here in Australia.
@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you sir.
Hi Richard, I am thinking of making a cereal bowl for my granddaughter. How durable is the linseed oil beeswax finish, can it survive modern washing up detergents and do you advise re-finishing in the future. Thank you.
An oil and wax finish comes off when the bowl is washed. If a bowl is going straight into use I wouldn't oil it at all - just wash it, then use it. Treat the bowl as you would a wooden chopping board which is washed in hot water and detergent then set to drain and dry. In use wood soon starts to develop a patina.
What is your equivalent of a story stick it story board when bowl turning? Suppose as a production turner you were asked for 6 or 8 complicated, look alike, salad bowls what ticks do you employ to move the process alone? Much like a spindle turner with a story stick..
I used to turn salad sets with one large bowl and six or eight small that were measured using dividers. Then in production bowls and plates in batches of up to 50. Continuity from one delivery to another was essential so a set might be gathered over a few years. I didn't use memory sticks. I cut the blanks accurately and removed the minimum to true the diameter which resulted in all bowls or plates being within a millimetre or two of each other in width. Height was layed out using dividers as was the diameter of the foot. No two were exactly the same, but clearly of the same design. Bowls or plates from different batches looked okay as a set. Overall dimensions in matching bowls are easy enough to achieve. More difficult is a consistant curve on the profile. This can be done using templates, but most competant turners develop a good eye for that. When turning a set of anything I try to use the same techniques and steps on each piece. I'd not adopt a different approach mid-way through an order.
What angle do you apply to your scrapers?
45 degrees on the squarish and nose of round-nose scrapers which vary to near vertical on the side. th-cam.com/video/X5CkrbPr_7s/w-d-xo.html
Lovely figure and chattoyance on that. Are there advantages and disadvantages to parafin over beeswax? (Knowing both will wash off) Many thanks!
Paraffin wax is probably cheaper and easier to come by. Beeswax smells and better, and sounds better on a label than paraffin wax.