My First Attempt at Bowl Making

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Re: My First Attempt at Bowl Making

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Wow very nice bowl ! What species is the red wood ?
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Purpleheart Paul. Should’ve been called Purplefart, smells just like chicken litter when you cut or sand it.
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And another bowl under my belt...
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That is awesome!

You going to show us how you did it .... :D

Nicely done!
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1951 10 ER S/N ER 44570 -- Reborn 9/16/14
1950 10 ER S/N ER 33479 Reborn July 2016
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The feature ring design is by Ray Allen. Gord Rock has a video that shows the process.
https://youtu.be/hUIUr49Ssiw
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BlackieSmith wrote:The feature ring design is by Ray Allen. Gord Rock has a video that shows the process.
https://youtu.be/hUIUr49Ssiw
Thanks, that looks interesting ....
Dick
1965 Mark VII S/N 407684
1951 10 ER S/N ER 44570 -- Reborn 9/16/14
1950 10 ER S/N ER 33479 Reborn July 2016
1950 10 ER S/N ER 39671
1951 jigsaw X 2
1951 !0 ER #3 in rebuild
500, Jointer, Bsaw, Bsander, Planer
2014 Mark 7 W/Lift assist - 14 4" Jointer - DC3300
And a plethora of small stuff .....

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." - Benjamin Franklin
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Re: My First Attempt at Bowl Making

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I wish I had the patience to do a segmented bowl. Maybe one of these days? Looks great.
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Interesting how many bots drive the view counts on these threads. Actual views is more like 5,000.
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fredsheldon wrote:Interesting how many bots drive the view counts on these threads. Actual views is more like 5,000.
How do you figure the actual views?
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Each photo has a view count associated with it. I just looked at the first photo in the blog. Oops, I just looked at the first photo and the views are more like 11,000 :)
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