whats your lightest bowl

[seventhdevil]

just a curious question really.

i just turned a couple of thin ones both 8" across in brown oak and field maple and both weighed 100g but the field maple is wet so don't know what it will get down to.


whats your lightest?

[John D Smith]

  I will let you know when I finished the one I am turning at the moment out of Balsa Wood John

[Les Symonds]

The gaps and cracks in some of my bowls don't weigh anything at all 
Les

[seventhdevil]

gaps and cracks, that's cheating fella...

[Paul Hannaby]

My lightest bowl was 5g

[Les Symonds]

My lightest bowl was 5g

...dolls house accessories?

[Paul Hannaby]

Actually I have no idea! I just posted that to illustrate that the weight on its own is pretty meaningless!

[seventhdevil]

it was still the question though...


ok i'll re ask the question, what is your lightest bowl with a diameter of 6-8".

how thin can you get it and was it turned wet or dry.

[Graham]

I have three nine inch bowls. Each one weighs 14 pounds.

[seventhdevil]

bowling balls are 8 1/2" not 9"

mine are 15 and 16lbs

[seventhdevil]

the bowl has now gone down to 65g.

i'm going to see how light i can get one soon

[julcle]

Hmm  --  Don't have anything to weigh in gms but I have an unfinished bowl at 3 1/2oz (wall = 1.5mm) and a finished bowl at 7oz (wall = 2mm), have to say that this is the thinnest I have turned to date. The finished one is beech, not much care taken with it as I was just playing around with thinness of walls. This tree was blown down in our lane back in the spring.

[seventhdevil]

3 1/2oz is almost exactly 100g.


what size are the bowls?

[julcle]

100g ! fair way to go then. The bowl is 6" x 2-3/4" it was turned fairly wet hence the shrinkage that can be seen.

[seventhdevil]

the trick might be to use a light wood.

i had a bit of brow oak from an ancient tree and turned it wet to 2mm it was 8x3" and it was 100g when dry.

i'm going to use some sycamore and catalpa and see what i get.