Hi Brad, I didn't realize you had a TH-cam channel. I've tried guilding a few times. Things I found.... A tack cloth removes the wee bits of glitter from the piece. Cut the foil with sharp scissors into wee squares and use either a small makeup brush which you either very slightly dampened the end, or smear Vaseline incredibly thin onto a surface and lightly dab your brush, then either method should allow you to pick up the leaf and place it. I'll go check out your channel now. Debs (aka badlybehavedelm)
Oh hey, great to see you over here! Thanks for the tips! I clearly had no idea what I was doing 😂 Bookmarking this for my next gilding adventure - thanks for the wise words!
For a guy who is admittedly just winging you can’t always be so lucky to create a masterpiece like you have done here, sometimes you strike gold! What a spectacular piece I truly love it!
I've seen a LOT of words turning videos over the years. Probably in the high hundreds, if not four figures. This has to be THE most amazing piece I have ever seen.
Excellent work and I really enjoyed the commentary - we can learn so much watching other artists and hearing their processes! Looking forward to your next project!
It's fabulous ! Looks strangely like some kind of creature which inhabits the rocks on the depths of the ocean. And if I had known about wood turning when I was in community college I would have had a much more satisfying career !
Q! (okay... Brad...) you absolutely killed it on this one! Just a beautiful work of art... that 1mm accuracy really made it! (LOL) - Love your content and all you do for the turning community!
I got here from your reddit post. As someone only just beginning their turning journey, the various tools and techniques you used in this video and how they all came together to make such a distinct piece absolutely fascinated me. You've inspired and broadened this beginner's perspective, as well as earned yourself a new subscriber.
I admire your endurance. I couldn’t do it bc repetitive actions trigger my ADHD, but I can def see using this process as an accent feature on a project.
The artwork/design is really cool. I can say that (as someone who doesn't know the first thing about woodwork or shop safety) that I was absolutely, genuinely terrified watching you craft it. I won't give an opinion on the substantive safety of what you were doing, but the optics of that asymmetric lathe turning were crazy. Well done not screaming. You're a braver man than I am.
Haha thanks for watching! IT's definitely intimidating the first few times, but I think it's a testament to what somebody can get used to that it doesn't bug me much any more. Worth a try if you ever get around to it!
This bowl looks like it was made from the skin of a dragon that has lain at the deepest part of the ocean for over a century. The inside is from a fossil that was removed after the beast was discovered. Amazing creative project. Unique!
Started in November& finished in December - your kids must sleep well 😁 This is super cool. Very interesting & brave to do the off centre piece. Must feel like you need to stop & straighten it. Looks like a spectacular sea urchin
Very nice Brad. I agree, it is potentially frustrating to take a perfectly good bowl and carve it up. You never know if it will be an improvement or a disaster. In this case, a vast improvement. I really like it. .......JeffJ....with 2,000 hours of woodturning in my life
Good morning 🌅, That turned out looking 👀 very nice, Very interesting project, I haven’t done a lot of gilding, but it was a very very long time ago, make a box shape 3 sided, that as a Handel that comes off the open side, line it with leather, the inside needs to be about 1” or so bigger than the sheet of metal, and with a very sharp knife you cut small pieces of sheet and with a fine brush you should be able to pick up the gold sheet, so you don’t waste too much gold, I hope this will help you, there is a lot more on TH-cam, regards from France,
you know, I pondered this a couple of times, but I didn't want to wait for the tung oil to cure (30+ days) before adding adhesive. Maybe on a future piece
In my grandmothers yard in South Georgia, were 4 magnificent trees. They were Tongue Nut. Very like walnut but the nuts were poisonous. I can see them to this day. 🎉
Very creative piece! I also found this on Reddit and came over to watch. I'm curious about your Rose engine, is it a Lindow or a different brand? I'd love to get into them, but the Lindow's are expensive.
Thanks for coming on over! I'm using an MDF Rose Engine - Rich Colvin over at @colvintools makes the kits for them, they're not nearly as expensive as the Lindows. Shoot him an email and he can fill you in!
Hey awesome work man for me its looks like dry up urchin you know what i mean. If you dont mind if i add some of my thought on them, i liked the contrast between the little chart circles and wood is just my preference from the view of your video. Probably you follow your idea and having the piece in my hand will have be different. Love the gold. There powder gold also that can be use. The Japanese used uruchi lacquer and with a brush tape ( dipping your fluffy brush into gold dust and then tape your brush so the dust fall into the lacquer). So again thank you for your work its really awesome and hope you do another one 😊
Lovely! The hours of creative work really show. Did you have sufficient courage to turn the bottom to a finished shape? If so, how did you hold it. Just thinking about that makes me nervous, and I only invested enough time to watch your video. Thanks.
You know, I haven't touched the bottom yet, and I'm still undecided on what I want to do with it. I might go back and give the tenon and moon-shape the same treatment that the outside got, but I'm going to take some time and enjoy the piece as it is. Thanks for watching!
I love what you did, and I love the contrasting concepts. One alternative would be to gold leaf the smooth inside of the bowl with the black textured outside.
I do all my sculpting on my Bridgeport mill with a rotating indexer. It works well but the indexing is all manual. Clamp, cut, unclamp, rotate, clamp, cut then adjust the tilt and start over. VERY VERY time consuming. I would like to see how you set up your rose engine. I as well have the Laguna 18/36. And I dont make watches, as this is where the Rose engine came from.
That sounds like quite the labor-intensive process! I'll make a video about the rose engine one of these days - I have an old one from way back here, but it's kind of slapdash and I was using a cell phone: th-cam.com/video/H-syFygve0Y/w-d-xo.html
@@qbranchwoodworks Would be interesting to see. I really like the idea of the Rose Engine, I've been thinking of either buying (expensive) or making one myself.
You say get at least a 1/3hp motor, but the Foredom SR is actually 1/6hp, less than a Dremel. It has other advantages, of course, but I still can't justify buying one.
One doesn't prototype with the more expensive materials. And yes, foot is as-is for now - might go back and redo the treatment on the bottom, but I'm happy to take a break from this piece for a while.
Hi Brad, I didn't realize you had a TH-cam channel. I've tried guilding a few times. Things I found....
A tack cloth removes the wee bits of glitter from the piece.
Cut the foil with sharp scissors into wee squares and use either a small makeup brush which you either very slightly dampened the end, or smear Vaseline incredibly thin onto a surface and lightly dab your brush, then either method should allow you to pick up the leaf and place it.
I'll go check out your channel now.
Debs (aka badlybehavedelm)
Oh hey, great to see you over here! Thanks for the tips! I clearly had no idea what I was doing 😂 Bookmarking this for my next gilding adventure - thanks for the wise words!
It's very organic looking. Almost like something out of the ocean.
definitely has marine invertebrate vibes. Thanks for watching!
That was my thought as well. I first thought sea urchin.
I was thinking nautilus... Sort of
Outside looks like a sea urchin shell . SO Beautiful!!🎉
I saw the same.
I came here for this too.
I'm getting natural burl vibes off the skin of this very organic work. The floral interior of the bowl seals the deal. Inspiring.
Thanks for noticing the floral aspect, I’m glad you appreciate that! Thanks for watching
For a guy who is admittedly just winging you can’t always be so lucky to create a masterpiece like you have done here, sometimes you strike gold! What a spectacular piece I truly love it!
Thank you, and thanks for watching! I hope to get this lucky again someday
Yes 👍 very sculpture and technology thanks for your video
I absolutely love the narration! I've been learning so much watching you! Thanks!
Thank you for watching, I appreciate it!
I've seen a LOT of words turning videos over the years. Probably in the high hundreds, if not four figures. This has to be THE most amazing piece I have ever seen.
That's extremely kind of you, thank you! I appreciate you watching and leaving some kind words - made my day.
So beautiful and organic.its like you gave a piece of wood a soul
Thank you, I appreciate you seeing the soul in the wood!
Masterpiece it most certainly is!
Crazy. Looks organic like something from deep in the ocean.
Thanks for watching! the consensus seems to be an urchin skeleton 👍
Excellent work and I really enjoyed the commentary - we can learn so much watching other artists and hearing their processes! Looking forward to your next project!
Thanks, I appreciate you watching and the kind words!
Lots of fun to watch! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Beautiful!
That’s awesome! So cool❤
It's fabulous ! Looks strangely like some kind of creature which inhabits the rocks on the depths of the ocean. And if I had known about wood turning when I was in community college I would have had a much more satisfying career !
Thanks for watching! I agree about the ocean creature - definitely has urchin vibes. And it's never too late!
@@qbranchwoodworks Nice sentiment, but I'm 72 and all my great fortune is invested in music equipment. Thanks anyway ...
Hey everybody! We have an edgelord! Come see how edgy he is!
Also, the rose engine cut bowl was a brilliant idea.
Beautiful work.
Thanks for watching!
Really-really nice piece!!!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
This is beautiful... and a lot of work! ♥ I also love the sun and moon design on the bottom! It's a nice surprise for anyone who turns the bowl over.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you liked the sun and moon design.
Q! (okay... Brad...) you absolutely killed it on this one! Just a beautiful work of art... that 1mm accuracy really made it! (LOL) - Love your content and all you do for the turning community!
Thanks, as always, for the support, Tony!
Excellent idea.
Thank you! Cheers!
Bravely creative!
Thanks Timothy!
OMG its perfect!
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Inspirational! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Very nice, piece of art.
That came out VERY good. You are such a good artist and craftsman. When I saw that surface the firsts thing that came to mind was dry brushing.
Thanks for watching, and for the kind words!
A gorgeous sea urchin ❤
Thanks for watching!
So cool, man.
Thank you!
This is special.
Thank you so much for watching!
@@qbranchwoodworks regards from southern Chile.
Your bowl is amazing. I think the curator at the Renwick would swoon. Frosting on the cake is that you made such an organic shape with a machine! ❤🎉
You're too kind! It's definitely my dream to be included in the Renwick someday - hopefully not posthumously 😂 Thanks for the kind words!
A Sea-Urchin? Beautiful.
That's the consensus! Cheers!
A Beautifully structured piece from a wonderfully chaotic process... Thanx for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching, I really appreciate it!
I got here from your reddit post. As someone only just beginning their turning journey, the various tools and techniques you used in this video and how they all came together to make such a distinct piece absolutely fascinated me. You've inspired and broadened this beginner's perspective, as well as earned yourself a new subscriber.
Thanks for making it all the way over here, I appreciate it! I'll keep trying to earn that subscription with each video 👍
Very well done
NICE!!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
The "only two semesters of community college" brainwave was so smart and the quip so funny! Nice bowl
Haha thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
This is otherworldly, instant subscribe.
Thanks for watching and for the sub, I appreciate it!
I admire your endurance. I couldn’t do it bc repetitive actions trigger my ADHD, but I can def see using this process as an accent feature on a project.
I hear you - I broke it up into many small sessions to avoid my own focus issues. Thanks for watching!
The artwork/design is really cool.
I can say that (as someone who doesn't know the first thing about woodwork or shop safety) that I was absolutely, genuinely terrified watching you craft it. I won't give an opinion on the substantive safety of what you were doing, but the optics of that asymmetric lathe turning were crazy.
Well done not screaming. You're a braver man than I am.
Haha thanks for watching! IT's definitely intimidating the first few times, but I think it's a testament to what somebody can get used to that it doesn't bug me much any more. Worth a try if you ever get around to it!
Sooooooo cool! Followed your link from reddit, thanks for the video!
thanks for making it over here, I appreciate it!
Magnifique...👍👍👍
Merci!
Very nice! Shows the hard work.
Thanks so much for watching, I appreciate it!
Amazing 👍👍
Thanks for tuning in!
This bowl looks like it was made from the skin of a dragon that has lain at the deepest part of the ocean for over a century. The inside is from a fossil that was removed after the beast was discovered. Amazing creative project. Unique!
Thank you for the kind words, Phyllis!
I love it, it looks like a sea urchin.
Thanks for watching, Cheryl!
I love it. Like a warty space pumpkin.
Love this description, thanks for watching!
Started in November& finished in December - your kids must sleep well 😁 This is super cool. Very interesting & brave to do the off centre piece. Must feel like you need to stop & straighten it. Looks like a spectacular sea urchin
Burrytiful!⭐️👍
Thanks! It definitely has a "burry" vibe. 😂
Very fancy, brother! I really enjoyed the voice-over and commentary-job well done. That little jewellery burr worked a treat!
Kez
Thanks Kez, I appreciate it!
Very nice Brad. I agree, it is potentially frustrating to take a perfectly good bowl and carve it up. You never know if it will be an improvement or a disaster. In this case, a vast improvement. I really like it.
.......JeffJ....with 2,000 hours of woodturning in my life
Thanks, Jeff! You're right, the gamble can go either way - glad this one paid off!
It looks like it's made of bronze. Really beautiful.
Thank you, and thanks for watching! I appreciate it!
@qbranchwoodworks 👍
Formidable!
Wow! What a beauty!! Thanks for sharing this inspiring video.
Rob (UK).
Thanks for watching, Rob!
Great piece of work , love that pattern on the inside and how it contrasts the more fluid one on the exterior . Thanks for sharing your process . 👍
Thanks for watching, Jim!
Fantastic job really enjoyed it.
Thanks for watching it, I appreciate it!
Good morning 🌅, That turned out looking 👀 very nice, Very interesting project, I haven’t done a lot of gilding, but it was a very very long time ago, make a box shape 3 sided, that as a Handel that comes off the open side, line it with leather, the inside needs to be about 1” or so bigger than the sheet of metal, and with a very sharp knife you cut small pieces of sheet and with a fine brush you should be able to pick up the gold sheet, so you don’t waste too much gold, I hope this will help you, there is a lot more on TH-cam, regards from France,
Great work! 2025 is the year my wood turning goes from traditional to more art driven. Thanks for sharing!!
Looking forward to it! I've subscribed - can't wait to see what you do next!
@@qbranchwoodworks thanks for the sub!
Burnished Gold leaf on the off-centre bowl cutout would have looked amazing.
you know, I pondered this a couple of times, but I didn't want to wait for the tung oil to cure (30+ days) before adding adhesive. Maybe on a future piece
In my grandmothers yard in South Georgia, were 4 magnificent trees. They were Tongue Nut. Very like walnut but the nuts were poisonous. I can see them to this day. 🎉
It's a fabulous plant and a great finishing oil!
Impressive work! I’d have left it undyed and put gold leaf in the smooth bowl myself. I like the burnt colour variation.
Thanks Janet! I thought about that exact solution for a bit, but I've seen it done before so I wanted to push it a little more. Thanks for watching!
@ Fair enough!
Sttunnning. First time I've seen a Rose engine used.
Thanks! It's a good way to add some character. I appreciate you watching!
24k views! Killin' it Bro!
Sometimes I get lucky 😂
Wow a very unique piece very nice, Well done.
Thanks for watching!
Very creative piece! I also found this on Reddit and came over to watch. I'm curious about your Rose engine, is it a Lindow or a different brand? I'd love to get into them, but the Lindow's are expensive.
Thanks for coming on over! I'm using an MDF Rose Engine - Rich Colvin over at @colvintools makes the kits for them, they're not nearly as expensive as the Lindows. Shoot him an email and he can fill you in!
@@qbranchwoodworks Thank you!
I like your bowl a lot. It reminds me of a crustacean from below the bottom of the ocean. I hope you put the right price on it. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Hey awesome work man for me its looks like dry up urchin you know what i mean. If you dont mind if i add some of my thought on them, i liked the contrast between the little chart circles and wood is just my preference from the view of your video. Probably you follow your idea and having the piece in my hand will have be different. Love the gold. There powder gold also that can be use. The Japanese used uruchi lacquer and with a brush tape ( dipping your fluffy brush into gold dust and then tape your brush so the dust fall into the lacquer). So again thank you for your work its really awesome and hope you do another one 😊
Lovely! The hours of creative work really show. Did you have sufficient courage to turn the bottom to a finished shape? If so, how did you hold it. Just thinking about that makes me nervous, and I only invested enough time to watch your video. Thanks.
You know, I haven't touched the bottom yet, and I'm still undecided on what I want to do with it. I might go back and give the tenon and moon-shape the same treatment that the outside got, but I'm going to take some time and enjoy the piece as it is. Thanks for watching!
Nice. Reminds me of a sea urchin skeleton.
Same here! Thanks for watching!
Neat, I'll take 10.
How's Christmas 2026 sound?
I love what you did, and I love the contrasting concepts. One alternative would be to gold leaf the smooth inside of the bowl with the black textured outside.
Yep, you got it! I might explore this theme a little bit, but after my hands stop aching 👍
Looks psychedelic!
awesome piece! I suppose if aliens use bowls they would probably look like this! Thanks for your channel!
haha thanks Bruce! Always happy to make a nice bowl for a weary star-traveler
Extremely cool. Looks like a fossil.
Thanks for watching!
I do all my sculpting on my Bridgeport mill with a rotating indexer. It works well but the indexing is all manual. Clamp, cut, unclamp, rotate, clamp, cut then adjust the tilt and start over. VERY VERY time consuming. I would like to see how you set up your rose engine. I as well have the Laguna 18/36. And I dont make watches, as this is where the Rose engine came from.
That sounds like quite the labor-intensive process! I'll make a video about the rose engine one of these days - I have an old one from way back here, but it's kind of slapdash and I was using a cell phone:
th-cam.com/video/H-syFygve0Y/w-d-xo.html
@@qbranchwoodworks Thanks. That gave me a lot to think about.
Nice, looks like some kind of shell. I'm wondering how a rose engine pattern would look with a mother of pearl type of finish.
You know, I considered doing something like that to the inside but I chickened out at the last moment. MAybe on the next one. Thanks for watching!
@@qbranchwoodworks Would be interesting to see. I really like the idea of the Rose Engine, I've been thinking of either buying (expensive) or making one myself.
Its like a petrified urchin without the spines.
Urchin is the consensus pick!
You say get at least a 1/3hp motor, but the Foredom SR is actually 1/6hp, less than a Dremel. It has other advantages, of course, but I still can't justify buying one.
Something about all those black bumps creeps me out.
Tripophobia 👍
Now fill that sea urchin with Ferrero Roche chocolates and you've got a great center piece for the dinner table.
Haha wrinkly everything! I like it!
Reminds me of what we call kina in NZ, aka sea egg :)
Ooh interesting, I'll have to look it up!
Great piece. Not sure how the base was finished though. Maybe I missed something?
I left the base for now, will possibly revisit in the future
looks like a sea urchin with an off centre fossil and random iron-pyrite polyps
Thanks for watching! You're with the majority on the urchin bit, for sure
Looks cool. What size cup burrs did you use?
10mm down to 2mm 👍
It looks like a grinding wheel
I think it's beautiful!! What'd the wife think? 😊
Thanks for watching! I got a nod of approval, which is pretty good for me 😂
22:26 ❤
10:22: suddenly hungry for a Asiago cheese bagel.
Kidding aside, what a gorgeous result. It reminds me of an ammonite.
😂I love it, I could frankly always go for a bagel. Thanks for watching!
Para quê serve essa peça?
Lucky Charms Cereal
This is absolutely insane and I love it.
Thanks for watching!
❤ I have no words for this beauty
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Congratulations! Stunning, absolutely stunning.
Thanks, Duncan, and thanks for watching!
Absolutely gorgeous and so unique! 🤩
Thank you, Adrienne!
It's an urchin skeleton
Looks like a sea urchin skeleton.
That's the consensus! Thanks for watching!
If you are going through all that trouble, why not use real gold leaf?
You didn't show how you took care of the bottom. Just left it as-is?
One doesn't prototype with the more expensive materials. And yes, foot is as-is for now - might go back and redo the treatment on the bottom, but I'm happy to take a break from this piece for a while.
Sea urchin
Nice and unique, but I bet you won't do that again. Just takes too long.
I've already started my next one - don't tell anyone! Thanks for watching!
Looked like burnt loaf for a bit.
agreed - definitely "left it in the oven" vibes
🏺👌✔️
Looks like a fossil