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Interested in your process for finish/second turn of dried/roughed-out bowls thru applying the finish

  • 16 Feb 2022 7:00 PM
    Message # 12606301

    How does everyone finish/second turn their bowls ?  Not how you finish (or what you use to finish), more looking for where finishing fits in your process of turning a bowl.

    My process is outlined below, but I feel like it needs improvement:

    1- faceplate blank, rough turn the bottom portion, turn a tenon

    2- Reverse and place bowl in a chuck, flatten the top/rim of bowl

    3- Rough out the interior (i.e. take out warpage from drying) to establish a diameter and give me an idea of what I have to work with on the outside of the bowl

    4- turn the exterior to final exterior design

    5- turn the interior to final interior design/thickness

    6- sand (& sand & sand, etc.) exterior and interior

    7- apply finish(es)

    8- reverse bowl (using a jamb chuck, cole jaws, or vacuum) to remove the tenon, create the concave bottom, then sand and apply finish.

    Maybe I just need to get better at turning off the tenon, it just seems like I get the tenon off, create the concave bottom which leads into turning off the area already sanded/finished. And it "snowballs downhill from here". In other words, as I do the sanding of this portion, I tend to move into previously finished area and with each grit move a little further up the bowl wall. Before I know it I've sanded the bottom and halfway up the outside of the bowl that I had already finished.

    Is there a better way? Seems like I am removing progress/finish from previous step #7. Maybe I should only finish the interior and wait until after removing the tenon to complete exterior finish?

    Hope this makes sense, it difficult to describe.

    Appreciate your feedback!


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  • 19 Feb 2022 10:23 AM
    Reply # 12612348 on 12606301

    dialed into today's Zoom Q&A mtg, so glad I did!

    thanks for all the tips & advice!

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