Richard Raffan turns a natural edge tripod bowl.

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4 ай бұрын

This somewhat esoteric video shows the trials and tribulations of getting a natural edge aligned on a small lathe. You get my design thoughts as work proceeds. I spent more time aligning natural edge than I’d usually take to make such a bowl. It's an acceptable bowl - although the rim could have been better balanced.

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@josephfernandes8667 4 ай бұрын

Excellent as always Richard. Also seeing how you deal with problems is always very fascinating and helpful. The inside colour of the juniper has taken shape of some creature like a squirrel with its eye in the right place 🤣🤣

@johnnyb95678 4 ай бұрын

I always learn so much by watching you. It was great to see this piece start out as a log, watching you cut it into usable pieces. And then, going through the process of turning that piece into a beautiful 3 legged bowl. Thank you!

@jpncompany6275 4 ай бұрын

I believe you have successfully demonstrated that in general turners should not expect all pieces go smoothly. You can see clearly in real time that you are making decisions to deal with problems as they come up and correcting them. That lesson is valuable to learn. Of course there are many variables and obstacles to success in all things. However with patience, persistence, practice, and knowledge anyone can achieve a good result. Cheers mate.

@bushratbeachbum 4 ай бұрын

An absolute joy watching you work as always Richard. Many thanks for sharing what you do and being so matter of fact about the process. It's extremely refreshing to see a no nonsense approach to turning and without the constant and unnecessary safety warnings etc. Thanks again for being an inspiration to me for over 30 years.

@jeanlong4285 4 ай бұрын

Richard, this bowl is amazing. I learned so much watching you turn it. The grain and the colors are incredible. Thank you for sharing.

@amospeterson3251 4 ай бұрын

Awesome work as usual Richard! I love the way you visualize, talk it through,execute, re-evaluate then complete the piece ! Thanks, really appreciate skill and devotion! Amos’s/Virginia

@krperry2007 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for showing this process.

@MarklTucson 4 ай бұрын

The figure in that wood is beautiful, especially the red portions. Really appreciate seeing how you put on the feet.

@L.J._Productions 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful bowl Richard!

@fallentreewoodcrafts 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful piece. I enjoyed learning how to make a tripod foot. I swear there are some pieces of wood that just fight you the whole way. You solved each issue and the end project was very nice.

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 3 ай бұрын

It made for a good demo.

@pbpleased7936 4 ай бұрын

The color palette gave the strongest hankering for Neapolitan ice cream! Thank you for sharing your struggles and not just the spectacular and beautiful outcome.

@victoryak86 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful work Richard. That color is striking. Finishing and allowing it to take its own shape seems like a great idea.

@gbjones54 4 ай бұрын

I always learn something every time I watch your videos. Thank you Richard..

@RTK1948 4 ай бұрын

Richard, your attention to form and design is always inspirational. Thanks for another very informative video.

@burnleyize 4 ай бұрын

Thank you again, Mr. RAFFAN. You are such a master of your craft.

@gav2759 4 ай бұрын

So much experience brought to bear on this unruly piece of wood. Love it.

@metodemersic 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Richard. Very informative and also calming to watch, but also a bit nerve wrecking to see, where the work will take you. Lately I keep referencing your videos with your books, so its easier to remember everything new. So grateful.

@johnwhitteron5296 4 ай бұрын

Great to see the result from the previous video about the decisions you made when processing the initial Juniper log.

@oldgeezer1746 3 ай бұрын

The barely a hint of a bump for the feet is very elegant. I'm going to try that soon.

@deyyoung42 4 ай бұрын

Gorgeous bowl. Thanks for sharing the journey of turning it!

@Brush0akie 3 ай бұрын

It’s the color of incense Cedar and reminds me of a big sea shell 🐚 or mussel shell. Softer wood can be so difficult to work, awesome creation.

@jamescarter8813 4 ай бұрын

Great Piece I always enjoy seeing the whole process. ?Using the lathe as a bowl clamp at the end was genius. Something I will defiantly be using.

@joescarborough1 4 ай бұрын

I have to say this is one of the more interesting, and informative, videos on bowl turning I have seen on KZbin in general, and your channel in particular. Now the challenge is to apply the lessons learned - and I've been turning mostly spindles (sporadically) for sixty years. Awesome figure on that piece. Thank you. All the best, -- Joe

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

If you're comfortable turning spindles using skew chisel and gouges, bowls should be easy.

@MASI_forging 4 ай бұрын

This bowl looks beautiful 👍👍

@firejaywin 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic - so informative, Thank you for your content.

@vidarreiersen4820 4 ай бұрын

beautiful bowl thank you! 👍

@oldcharlie5533 4 ай бұрын

I have worked with juniper. The contrast in the colors is very nice. You have taken a unique shaped lump of wood and turned it into art...fantastic.

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately nowhere near art on this occassion: it's what I call a good 'just miss'.

@jackthompson5092 4 ай бұрын

A very beautiful sumac bowl Richard. That is the largest piece of sumac that I have very see. Most of the sumac here in the Ottawa Canada area, tops out about 5 inches in diameter.

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

This is juniper, not sumac.

@9thousandfeet 4 ай бұрын

I love that Richard's videos never disguise how much of a wrestling match some pieces can be once you get away from the choreographed and much more predictable repetition of production turning. Sometimes, with these one-off pieces, everything falls into place, and at other times, well, it can be a real rodeo. Here in the Colorado mountains we have both a juniper and a cedar species that can make some nice pieces. The two trees are very similar in appearance when growing, though the cross sections of the juniper trunks tend to have a much more pronounced "clover leaf" profile, which makes finding pieces this large without big voids quite unusual. The cedar has exactly that purple coloration when fresh and green, just as in this video, whereas the juniper heartwood is a golden brown even when perfectly green. (The cedar's purple fades to brown fairly after a fairly short time-no more than a few weeks, tops-which it looks like this timber is going to do also). They smell different too - the juniper has a very fresh rather pleasant pungency with hints of turpentine, while the cedar is more musty, earthy and not quite so pleasant. Maybe in Australia, where everything is upside down 🙃, this might be juniper, but here in the rightside up world, we'd call it cedar. 😊😎 Dunno what kind of ads KZbin inserts into Richard's vids in other parts of the world,, but here they're all about how to reduce blood sugar (with warm water!!?!) and how to obtain stronger erections in ways that are both unbearably corny and medically suspect to the point of being quite possibly hazardous. 🤣

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

The content of the ads has nothing to do with me but clearly reflects Google's perception that the viewer is a male of a certain age. I get the same and very irritating American woodworking ads. This wood came from a Canberra garden as an unknown species. Once I got turning it the wood smelt and worked like the juniper I worked a few weeks ago that I knew to be juniper.

@Tim_Pollock 4 ай бұрын

Lovely bowl Richard.

@williamswhistlepipes 3 ай бұрын

I’ve never really had much luck with scrapers usually I get a lot of tear out with them but yours seem to work fine…

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 3 ай бұрын

The secret with scrapers, as with most turning, is minimal pressure against the wood. Scrapers might better termed strokers. Think in terms of the pressure of your hands against each other as you rub them under a hot air dryer.

@kenvasko2285 3 ай бұрын

I love the shell look on the inside. Excellent adjustments. Early in the video you were looking at the bottom of the bowl and considering where to put the feet. What did you see in the wood?

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 3 ай бұрын

I think in the end the precise position of the feet was decided by short grain that looked easier to sand than cut. I'd need to revisit the video... The major consideration overall was the alignment of the rim, so the position of the feet would be dictated by that.

@kenvasko2285 3 ай бұрын

I did understand you wanted to align the 2 rim peaks (and the 2 valleys). I just thought you may be aligning the feet with the rim configuration. Also, I was surprised you didn't take the bark off sooner. You look like you were tempted a couple times.

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 3 ай бұрын

@@kenvasko2285 I retain the bark as long as possible to presserve the rim below.

@hirudo881 4 ай бұрын

A spindle gauge for side grain roughing? Isnt that exactly what everyone is warning about?

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

It the deep-fluted spindle-roughing gouges that should never be used for bowls and facework.

@johnmitchell1614 4 ай бұрын

Nice job Richard. It was odd (to me) when you turned the wood over when deciding how to centre the thing, it had bark on the other side. I thought it was a strange shape. Oh! and it matched your trousers. Best regards. PS Did it smell of anything?

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

The blank was aligned that way to achieve the largest overall dimensions. Commercially, losing height or diameter = less money into my pocklet. The wood smelt the same as the juniper I'd turned a few months earlier, which is how I identified it. I'm glad someone appreciates my attempts at colour coordination.

@johnmitchell1614 4 ай бұрын

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning He he, thanks Richard. Best regards.

@brianhawes3115 4 ай бұрын

That is a gorgeous bowl, is juniper a soft wood? Like in the pine family?

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

Junipers are coniferous and members of the cypress family.

@iancompton6961 4 ай бұрын

Richard a Oneway Big Bite would have worked real well on this piece - i use it all the time when i am likely to have to shift the orientation to get the right results.

@RichardRaffanwoodturning 4 ай бұрын

A Big Bite would have been ideal if mounted in longer jaws. My problem was not the drive, but the height of the rim high points above the centre of the blank which kept hitting the headstock or lathe bed. With hindsight I could have mounted my faceplate drive in a chuck to get further from the headstock. Isn't hindsight wonderful.