whats your lightest bowl

[Eric Harvey]

I have a bowl in Apple around 1 mm thick that`s less than 50 grammes,its about 5" across and 1 1/2 " deep,turned green and nuked in the microwave till dry,half a minute at a time on defrost with 2 mins between each cycle for cooliing.

[seventhdevil]

ok i did one the other day that i've got down to 25 grams in cherry at 5" wide by just over an inch deep.


i'm going to see if i can get down to 10-15 grams.

[Graham]

Why ?

[bodrighywood]

Why ?

To see if you can? if you are selling then it has little commercial value IME apart from the occasional collector.

Pete

[Graham]

IMHO anything less than about 5mm would feel a little fragile.

[seventhdevil]

pete's right, because i can...


to be fair graham i take it as a challenge to myself as one or two bowl ended up quite thin and light by accident and i wanted to see how thing i can go.

the latest one is about 1-1.5mm thick in the wall up to about 2-3 at the base. 

when i find my calipers i'll be able to check but they are lost amongst the shavings at present.

[Paul Hannaby]

I made a couple of thin walled shallow bowls from holly a long time ago. Each was between 0.5mm and 0.75mm thick. They were surprisingly strong and if dropped, they would just float down and land without breaking. The things we do just for fun! 

[seventhdevil]

my word that's thin...

i want to get one so thin you can see light through it...

[bodrighywood]

I have sen lampshades made which I suppose is pretty much what you are looking at. They were usually turned in green wood if I remember correctly.

Pete

[Dave Brookes]

Steve,
Some years ago, I made a bowl that you could see everything through because I failed to follow Graham's first rule of woodturning!

Dave

[John D Smith]

  I agree with Graham Why Regards John

[Graham]

Steve,
Some years ago, I made a bowl that you could see everything through because I failed to follow Graham's first rule of woodturning!

Dave

[GBF]

my word that's thin...

i want to get one so thin you can see light through it...

It would be interesting to see a picture of this bowl.
I have searched the Gallery for 50 pages and cannot see any of your work

[seventhdevil]

that's because this site dies not allow very big photos and for a time i did not know how to re-size them so that they would post along with what i write.

i'll get a snap up of it but if you want to see some of my work then check out these two links.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/65439-bowl-turning-thread.html
other than page 1 which has an oak bow that i started the thread off with pictures of mine start at page 8.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/60100-all-my-woodwork-so-far.html

[GBF]

It is not too difficult to resize your pics.

Regards George