Richard Raffan gets two bowls from inside a block of highly-figured Tasmanian blackwood.

[@jorisdemoel3821]

I love watching you go from blank to finished work, I have a deep partiality for nested bowls (and saved wood) and the end result is magnificent. I agree the new foot looks better. And there was a sock and many good tips. What more can one want from a video. Thanks!

[@Cancun771]

Absolute legend, that coring. And the getting fed up with the centers and going back to the jam chuck. Lesser men would have just edited that bit out.

[@Michael-loves-woodgrain]

Nice bowl Richard and an enjoyable presentation, I have watched all your videos and I still look forward to seeing more. Also enjoyed seeing you using the slicer ! Always learn something, thanks again.

[@DavidBird-uu8km]

Very nice, a beautiful piece of wood. Thanks for another great video.

[@gregdownunderinOz]

Thanks Richard. Really nice work, you are very easy to watch and listen to. Great bowl. The timber is so beautiful. I’m very interested in your coring chisel. Is it homemade. You also seeem to core the other way around to the professional coring systems,9 they are too costly for me to purchase so I don’t core my bowls but when you have great figured grain in timber, very sensible. Can you do a video on coring please.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Sorby used to make a slicer but it's not difficult to make your own. Essentially a carbide tip on the end of a tapered rod. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmO7gmuKiL6Bg9k

[@markduggan3451]

The talant that you show is only outmatched by the inspiration that you teach.

[@MarklTucson]

Really appreciate seeing how you prepare a blank from the raw piece of wood and also how you were able to recover two additional blanks from the original blank. Seeing the design decision for changing the foot was instructive as well. The result made a big difference in the appearance.

[@joshuadinerstein7533]

That is a lovely piece of wood. But what makes it really shine is the care given to the shape of the bowl. And the detail in the finish itself. Time spent sanding it correctly. Amazing work. Thanks for this and all of the other videos.

[@qapla]

Thanks for the video, Richard. You have a good way of teaching.

[@Tim_Pollock]

Another beautiful bowl Richard and with every video you inspire me.

[@johnnyb95678]

Beautiful bowl and a great lesson in coring. Thank you!

[@DavidAnderson-u2z]

It never ceases to amaze me what a piece of wood can look like after processing.

[@glennnord2605]

Thats a very nice color bowl and nice foam .

[@glencrandall7051]

Another well done and informative video. Thanks Richard. Have a great New Year and stay safe.🙂🙂

[@908woodturner]

Great video, thank you

[@krperry2007]

Beautiful wood.

[@jlphotographic]

Hi Richard, please do a video on your bowl coring tool, the slicer, I will have a look to see if you have one already, most coring systems are simply too expensive and complex for someone like myself, your slicer looks like just the ticket, thanks

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmO7gmuKiL6Bg9k

[@jlphotographic]

@RichardRaffanwoodturning thank you, I found it almost right after my comment, I also found a local shop that keep them, and I happen to have a voucher too so that's a win. Any slicer tips for a yearling turner?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

@@jlphotographic You'll find twisted grain and burl often don't split as cleanly as you might hope, so it pays to nest out a shallower bowl than if the grain is straight and parallel to the base of the larger bowl.

[@jlphotographic]

@RichardRaffanwoodturning ok thanks a lot, love the channel, amazing to watch you work, so efficient!!

[@kenvasko2285]

I noticed when you were finishing the transition in the bottom inside, you went to the gouge and not the scraper. Was it because of the location or the thickness?

[@josephpotterf9459]

Thanks Richard

[@PJSeiber]

Beautiful Beautiful work

[@billrockefeller5409]

The coring process was interesting, would like to see a video just on that. I have a OneWay coring system but like what you did.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmO7gmuKiL6Bg9k

[@kaybee2300]

Beautiful.....

[@oldcharlie5533]

Very nice Richard..yes it was worth the effort.

[@DanHPerry]

I would love to get a good look at the coring tool.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

You see it at the beginning of kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmO7gmuKiL6Bg9k

[@hlcorick]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning Thank you for the video link. Hello from Texas. Your excellent teaching style has helped me a great deal and I thank you sir.

[@DiemenDesign]

Very nice Richard, I'm sure the camera doesn't do the figure justice. Thanks for sharing.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

It has a shimmer that's difficult to show.

[@DiemenDesign]

@@RichardRaffanwoodturning I'm sure it does. I've been trying to capture that in photo's, sometimes can, slightly, most of the time not.

[@robertcornelius3514]

Your pieces are perfect for fractal burning. Like they say you only live once.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I would consider that criminal waste of good wood and a good bowl.

[@STMwoodturning]

Gorgeous grain in this bowl! Really enjoy your videos that start out with a raw chunk of wood and carry through to a finished piece. I especially enjoy the bandsaw processing part as it helps me understand how to get the best blank out of the wood I get. Did you run out of the rice bran oil or simply switch back to BLO?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

Switched back to to BLO for most finishing.

[@kevinmccann316]

I agree…. It was worth the effort to tweak the foot.

[@derrickthatcher8150]

Thanks, Richard. That's a good tip to re-chuck a large diameter piece on a MDF disc. What is the grit number of the home that you use to touch-up your scraper. I use a #400 grit home but it doesn't seem to do the job and I end up going to the "wheel".

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

I think the hone is 300 grit.

[@SlaveToTheLathe]

Would you always recommend finishing first with linseed oil then beeswax or could you just go ahead with beeswax if you’re out of oil?

[@nemoemanon6679]

I’m guessing it’s beneath professional turners to invest in bowl jaws because it’s “quicker” to make custom jam chucks or to fiddle around for several minutes trying to find the center with the tail stock to refine a foot or remove a tenon.

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

When in production, now more than ten years ago, I had two sets of bowl jaws which I rarely used. Repositioning the buttons was tedious and in the time that took I could do what was needed using jam chucks. In the 1970s, pre-modern chuck, let alone bowl jaws, I used jam chucks much of the time. I could easily have cut the fiddling around in this video, but left it in to show what can happen and that there are alternatives. This is a teaching video and I learned decades ago to include catches and episodes such as this fiddling around to relax my audience, knowing there'd be inevitable snide remarks.

[@jeraldcarter1299]

Question, is the wood slicer still being produced, if so, by who?

[@coskunturkoglu9740]

👍👍👍👍

[@wesleyhead]

Richard, are your works for sale in the US?

[@RichardRaffanwoodturning]

These days I sell direct, with most pieces going to the US and Europe. Please email [e-mail] for more information.

[@stephennewman6872]

Very nice bowl Richard