how are you buddy yourself you made it out here to the burbs
tell you what
that's a six-pack trip that is yeah it's a fair drive
all right i'll give you a hand with the weapons all right don't worry
g'day uh my name's mark and today got something's pretty special going on i've got a couple of bowl
blanks i've got a good mate coming over his name's dale i'm sure a lot of you
know who he is but if you haven't we're going to get him up here
right now and we're basically we're going to turn a bowl why i want to start building
bowls i guess is i don't want to ever buy another christmas present again so that's the goal here
cheapskate as you can tell dale's already here let's get him up here the weaponry
all righty ladies and gentlemen dale from del bassett timbles hey bro good mate
welcome we've got blanks we've got some weapons and we have the new lathe which dale also helped
me find sauce recommend and it's probably one of the greatest things i've ever bought and i'm
pretty excited to get amongst it sweet let's get amongst the mango what we did just do is um put a
sweat background swept back grind uh on the jizz dale's brought a couple of his nice weapons well
pretty much it's about having the wings that start to slope back a little bit that way that when
you're learning you're not going to dig those wings in when you buy a ball gouge right from
the shop generally it'll just be a round profile that's okay if you kind of know what you're doing
if you don't then we like to sweep those back a little tiny bit you also don't need to have the
starship enterprise of grinding systems we've just done that what on a belt sander yep i'll
um i'll chuck some footage up here of exactly what we're doing we're doing it on the ground
today um because that was just what we need to do so i mean it's not something that i guess is that
easy to do that takes a little bit of practice to be able to learn how to
to freehand sharpen so jigs are sometimes the easiest way to go and to do it with the grinder
is also the easiest way to go but the bottom line is if you don't have that sort of kit
and you can't afford that sort of stuff with a 120 grit belt on your belt sander you can also
get your stuff as sharp as it needs to be to to be able to cut and do out of turn cool here comes the
mats you're going to make it roundy randy yeah all right right so this is going to be the face
so this is going to be the top of the bowl and what we're going to see so when your fruit
goes in it your fruit goes in this side so what we're going to do is this will go onto the lathe
and what we will do is we're going to turn that side first okay so we're going to make the back
and we're going to finish it so if i'm doing stuff on a face plate i will always turn the back first
and i'll completely finish it even putting the finish on before i even turn it around
and then put it on chuck and then you do the front okay sweet there you go get into it
right
see if that gets you another million views i know what to film so what we're going to do is
we're going to start on that sort of angle and you're going to be around here and you're going
to start nibbling this way okay okay now what we're not going to do is we're not going to stand
in the line of fire so you're not going to stand here because if anything happens with this it's
going to go either go that way that way that way or hit that way and then come back that way
if you're standing right in the line of fire if something does go wrong
you're gonna cop it and we don't want that gorgeous mug of yours to be damaged
all right so we now know that we've got the speed right you now know what your angle of attack is
you will have your bucket on because we don't do turning without our bucket on because that's
really stupid so your back hand is your brake your accelerator and your steering wheel all
your front hand does is anchor the rest at the the tool the tool down onto the tool rest
right it's rude have to stop and have a bit of a look and yeah i mean you're not quite on the bevel
there because you can feel that you've bounced off it yeah but once you start to to get a little
bit rounder and you start to get rid of this sort of stuff then we'll start to to get a little bit
clean that's going to be a little bit more around backhand control as well see that you're in the
cut and you can get enough cut going the weight of the the blank coming down onto that blade will
actually hold that in the cut and if you control that well enough you don't even need anything
on your front hand you can take it away i mean don't but you can don't yeah note yourself don't
what are you doing hey pooper oh like the self don't break your ribs what are you doing
little freddy see how i'm on that purple now you watch the back end see i'm not even looking at
that plate i can look at the other end of that bowl there i don't even need to look
if i know where i am so i can come back here i might be looking at you because i can feel where
it is and i know that i'm taking that half that blade so i'm going to start pulling in my cups
and the bloody wonderful world of freaking youtube is all about what speed do i have to do
you know how fast do i spin it it doesn't actually matter because what you're needing to think about
is the meters per second that this outside rim is turning because that is turning faster than
the center so the rpm is exactly the same from top to from middle to the edge but this is traveling
at 10 times the speed that the center is so i like the fact that you don't actually have
like an rpm reader on your lathe yeah because this teaches you to actually learn good speeds
to be able to turn up the cut style has just done which he wasn't even looking
he was looking at me just to demonstrate something it it barely needs sandpaper so
we'll it'll need 240. all right so i'm going to have a go now to try and
get this bowl shape happening and i'll then come back and show you the difference
if you look at where the chisel is
gonna bounce a bit now keep listening
to bring your hips spread around this way bring it around bring it around bring it round
and open it up a little bit there you go pick up right the way through pick up yep right
now just have a little bit of a look okay and that then can be you know
whatever shape you want it to be whatever the bowl chooses okay whatever the mark chooses
what are we gonna do we're gonna check square [ __ ] me who would have thought
a little bit of juggling a little yeah so that way you now know that you've
got you can even feel it if you're just rubbing your fingers along i can see yeah
we want as much of this surface to be touching the wood we've got a set of um ah
this one we prepared earlier we'll just cut back towards the center with the bowl gouge
we'll put a skew in there and we'll create the shoulder we can go down and yeah put
a flat bottom on it that's if you feel that though that's not very flat you just feel it
no no yeah so we want to have it particularly in this corner we want to have it flat yep
so we need that flat surface for those jaws to sit flat against the the base of that mortise
we were talking about going up across the oh yeah right let's find the green one so
okay so this is side so this is end grain yep because that's where that fifth bit is
so pith has to be and an engrained because that's the end of the straws yep right so
we want to come from 45 degrees across from that back your knuckles against that isn't that chuck
running true cool perfect oh it's beautiful thank you just like i bought one beautiful bloody hell
come on call me again jesus hurts okay
cool so when we're doing sanding with this sort of thing uh we're only going to start with this
with 120 grit and we've got it's got a couple of ridges there so you've done pretty good with that
um if we didn't have those little couple of ridges we probably would just go straight to 240 because
that's pretty clean okay and you don't have any engrained tear out which means that
i'd actually sharpen the chisels decently to start with we always cut fast but we sand slow because
if you sand fast all you do is you jump from the hard point across the soft point back to the hard
point okay and the hard point is always the end grain so if you think about timber as being straws
the end grain are the end of the straws if you press on the end of straws you're not going to
compress it you can you know you can actually give it a fair amount of welly but if you squash the
straws across the body of the straws they crush so what you end up doing is you sand more out of the
side than you do out of the end and what you'll do is you'll actually start to create an oval
doing lateral motion oh not doing any up and down there's no point you're doing up
and down because the ball's going up and down so you know you've got you
know you've got a good teacher when he does a standing for you what the hell
and sing a copy of angling times thanks buddy holiday scotties custom grip step one
now daryl gave me these very generous i have my moments not often but i haven't good gear
amazing year oh yeah that's my turn yeah this is the part where we get your brain working give me
the good knowledge this is great stuff i mean we've only sanded this to uh 240 have a crack
at that that's pretty nice so then we're just going to use the uh scott's custom grip step
one and step two and that will put a really really groovy finish on it i don't do anything after that
that's it done dusted the back of the bowl will be finished sounds good to me that's what i reckon
and yes we're going to use rags safety police you know the internet's already smashed me for that
well they're going to smash them again because this is the long part of it remember how we
were talking just before about the fact that this part of the bowl is actually a meter in diameter
you know mass bowls 35 centimeters diameter is what pi d yep circumference is pi d
yeah pi times diameter so 35 times three point one four one five nine two stop it
there it is and keep it moving i generally go from the outside to the inside but you'll
be able to see the lines of where it is if you're looking at the lines up here you'll
be able to see when you're working the gear so move it back and forward so even from that
if you look at that now all those little micro scratches that we had have now gone
have a crack at that and that's really bringing out the color of that mango and look at that
i mean even up through here look we've got greens and yellows and all sorts of
funky dust stuff going on oh even a bit of fiddle back through there
hey i tell you what if you look at it from this angle it looks like a spaceship flying saucer
so even if we just slowly just let the light catch it
and that way you can see all the changes in that grain so yeah we've got
all that greens and stuff around here we've got a little bit of fiddle back through here really nice
a great straw shortage of 2021 so when we're talking about supported grain if we think about
this as being wood what we want to do is actually push fibers down onto fibers so if i'm going to
support grain if i'm going to cut this way i'm pushing fibers onto fibers so if you look at that
it's pushing and it's pushing against each other because i'm pushing down the hill
now if i'm pushing uphill and i'm cutting against the fibers if i'm pulling like that
what happens yeah it rips it rips so what we want to do is we want to cut if we're going to
do a rim we want to cut from in here downhill to this way because we're pushing down on the fibers
that way when we're going back in to do the bowl you're also pushing downhill
and you're cutting and you're pushing down on the fibers science science sciences
alrighty so i've just been doing a heap of bowl hollowing hogging out hogging out um in
the interest of making this a beautiful christmas present dale's just going to give me this final
nice cut so rather than flog a dead horse bust through the other side um i'm just going to watch
him do it just to finish it off and then we can get to a reasonable product am i going to approach
alrighty so terrible light but you you can't really see uh all the shimmer in that
we'll get it i'll get it off we'll get dale up on the chair and we'll
say hero in a minute one bowl made of mango it's it really has so much cool stuff going on and i
i've got a sneaking suspicion that they'll pick this one on purpose no idea what you're
talking about but the color in that the chatoyance in that look at the ripples
that's just really nice mangoes are really underrated timber um it's just gorgeous love
it really forgiving great to learn with um yeah i do a lot of stuff in mango it comes up really nice
mate can't thank you enough for coming around so my head is so full of knowledge from one so
from here uh camera off i'm going to take this blank and try and step through the process to
produce another bowl out of this this other one so it will be scored what does that mean
11 for the swedish judge did you say scored is it marked yes
a lot scored with some weird timber thing i went every time i speak to him he
brings up a new team i've never heard of or a new definition anyway
that's a plan with that cool cool mate again thanks so much um
we might involve a beverage afterwards next time at the shed mahal alrighty just one little random
shout out this one's gonna go to my dad now he's been sitting up at night watching my videos from
start to finish um this one's actually going to be a christmas present for mum so shh don't tell her
okay hey thanks later you oh yeah next time you gotta have a catchphrase all right so don't do
it too tight otherwise you'll never get the [ __ ] thing back off again excuse my french
yes it is that's right
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