bowl with a stand well i think lol

[petjeffery]

well here is my very first  bowl  with added in bits and holes   with a stand   im very pleased  but thing the stand could of been a lot better  but hay  trail and error  please leave your comment  and let me know

[Dave Atkinson]

Hi Pete

For a first attempt it's very good.

I can see what you mean about the stand.  It would look better I think if you made the detail crisper by defining where one shape finishes and another starts.  On your stand they flow into each other, which is not wrong but I think a little more crispness would help.

Hope that helps

Cheers Dave

[Andy Coates]

Hello Peta,

you are keeping busy.

I'd repeat all the points made by Dave, and add that the foot is a little too small.

You may be interested to know that a bowl on a stem/stand is often called a "Tazza". So you made your first tazza. Well done.

[petjeffery]

thank you both  i think i will redo the stand    was the bowl ok ?  how can i get a big are foot  andy   

[Dave Atkinson]

Hi

To get a bigger foot you have two options - start with a bigger diameter piece, which is wasteful or turn the bolw, stem and base in three parts and then glue together.  If you did this the stem would be turned with the grain parallel to the lathe bed and teh bowl and base would be at rights angles.

Hope this helps

Dave

[petjeffery]

thank you dave  i will give it a go  really getting in to this now  lol   

[Bryan Milham]

I do like the bowl section, brave use of a piece of wood that had holes & cracks and good use of a blowtorch.

I also agree that the stand needs definition as per the given advice.

But for a first attempt, very well done.

[woodndesign]

Peta,

  You've done very well with this, very bold in what you have tackled and details to the bowl, we can all find spindles difficult at the very begining, but when you get into understanding the design and you take to re-fine the details, things get better, if I look back to some of the first I made...    ...  I shudder..

The Fundamentals of Woodturning, Mike Darlow,  ISBN 0-85442-074-6.       Both of Keith Rowley books, Woodturning, A Foundation Course, ISBN 1-86108-114-6 and Woodturning Projects, ISBN 1-86108-013-1. are three which has all the basics, which will aid to building up details and design within your work, when you master scale and turn smaller and finer, which comes with time.

Your doing well, keep up the good work.

David