Author Topic: Went Bowlin today (Read 2775 times)

Zuma · « **on:** July 30, 2014, 10:28:24 pm »

The weather here has been fall like. Moderate temps and low humidity.
Just right for shade tree bowlin.
Zuma

osage outlaw · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2014, 10:30:01 pm »

Very cool

TRACY · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2014, 12:08:38 am »

Nice work!

Tracy

chamookman · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2014, 05:26:20 am »

WOW - very nice ! Bob

Blackcoyote · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2014, 09:15:57 am »

damn those are sweet, nice work!

Bone pile · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2014, 09:49:34 am »

OK it's spalted what? Did you turn it? I see a brush and a beer ,are you putting a beer finish on the wood?

questions questions. other than that they look very cool.
Bone

RidgeRunner · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2014, 09:52:53 am »

Tools, Tools... What tools did you use?

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Thanks
David

YosemiteBen · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2014, 12:20:33 pm »

very nice work....

Ozzy · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2014, 02:03:22 pm »

Very Sweet!!!!!!!

Zuma · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2014, 02:42:54 pm »

Great members here. Thanks

Spalted Sycamore, preformed last year. I keep them dry and cool in the basement.
Chisels, gouge , then a grinder with 2hrs of hand sanding.
I would rather drink the polyurathane than brush a beer on a hunk of wood
Roger. lol

Zuma

RidgeRunner · « **Reply #10 on:** August 01, 2014, 09:09:14 am »

Got to get me a big Gouge or two.... and a Bowl Adze.
May have to make the Adze.

Thanks
Very nice carvings.

David

Zuma · « **Reply #11 on:** August 02, 2014, 03:44:10 pm »

Gouges are sweet when it comes to curved surfaces.
Here is what the chainsaw can do instead of a adze.
My chain saw is a 1968 model and qualifies as primitive. lol
Also I made a spalted maple bowl. My first.

longbow man · « **Reply #12 on:** August 09, 2014, 09:22:06 pm »

Unbelievable. Gotta sharpen my tools and try to catch up. Do you do anything special to keep it from checking? Chants, bowl dance or mystic stuff?

Zuma · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2014, 11:58:16 pm »

longbowman,
I try not to start with a green log.
Something that has been dead or down for a while.
If there are no major checks then I start the saw.
Sawing out the core and preforming the outer walls so
the work is reasonable thin.
This gives the bowl somewhere to shrink to.
Then I put it in a cool dark place for a year where I dance around it
with a small dehumidifier uttering chants and shaking bones and feathers.
Sometimes it works.
Zuma

Primitive Archer